by Gemma Ray | Nov 28, 2020
Do you procrastinate on deadlines? Do you leave things until the last possible minute causing lots of stress? If so, this week’s Level: Up work hack is for you! via GIPHY How to Play to Your Strengths and Dominate Deadlines If you are someone who always leaves...
by Gemma Ray | Nov 27, 2020
I love a good session emptying my head in my journal and I know a lot of my readers do too. I enjoy the process of creating specific journal prompts to a couple of my 1:1 clients after our calls. We make them relevant to what is happening in their lives. One of the...
by Gemma Ray | Oct 14, 2020
View this post on Instagram Just because someone else has it worse, doesn’t make your problems any smaller. #toxicpositivity #mindset #support A post shared by Gemma Ray #PullYourFingerOut (@gemmadeeray) on Oct 14, 2020 at 11:56am PDT If there’s one habit in...
by Gemma Ray | Oct 7, 2020
Autumn is always my favourite season. Not only do the teals, purples, mustard and burgundy colours of the season go well with my red-headed colouring, but I love how the nights draw in and we scurry for warmth. I love big knits and the dancing white mist of hot breath...
by Gemma Ray | Aug 26, 2020
I’ve started the mother of all accountability challenges. On Sunday, I don’t know why I just felt so sad and low. I’d had a week off and I don’t do well with time off. I’m a doer. I’m not a person who relaxes easy and so taking a...
by Gemma Ray | Aug 24, 2020
“I’d love to be as focused as you,” someone said to me yesterday. Which made me smile because I often don’t feel focused at all. I don’t think many of us can honestly say we nail our productivity levels every day and that’s OK and...
by Gemma Ray | Aug 21, 2020
Lessons from being six months sober “You’ve got to stop saying it like that. it makes you sound like a recovering alcoholic!” Said my husband yesterday when I proudly announced: “I’m six months sober today!” I should point out that...
by Gemma Ray | Aug 17, 2020
I can’t quite believe someone lets me loose on the airwaves every week but it’s been one whole year since Nicola Adam and I started our very first show on BBC Radio Lancashire. This time last year we were broadcasting from 4-6 pm and our show was called...
by Gemma Ray | Aug 17, 2020
Do you struggle to switch off? You’re not the only one. According to a Direct Line Travel Insurance survey, 4 million British employees don’t take their annual leave every year, with 34% claiming that their workload is too heavy, 22% claim that they only take...
by Gemma Ray | Aug 12, 2020
I did a live video on my Facebook page tonight where I asked “When are you at your best?” and I don’t know where it came from, but I cried as I spoke aloud of the mum guilt I feel every day. I’m typing this now in my office upstairs in my house...
