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fine-tuning the ordinary

Living savvy is not about fixing something that is ‘broken’, or radically overhauling your life. It's about the small changes you can make to your daily life, your habits and your mindset to produce amazing results – fine-tuning the ordinary to live extraordinary.

The Intentions Reflection Mirror – Ball #2

Monday Bites #89

Monday Bites #88

Monday Bites #86

How can a slow cup of tea do more for you than a health spa?

Monday Bites #85

Monday Bites #84

Monday Bites #83

Are you sabotaging your small steps towards your dream life?

Gratitude AKA celebrating the good stuff in life

Monday Bites #71

Monday Bites #70

Monday Bites #69

Bridging the gap between where you are and where you want to be

Monday Bites #68

Getting active together — great for you and your family

What’s worry done for you lately?

The power of reflection

Monday Bites #37

Monday Bites #36

The glamorous art of toilet cleaning

Living the life you were meant to live

3 savvy tips for achieving big goals

The master key to living savvy – the number one thing you need to do to live extraordinary

Personal and Business Partnerships – Can they work?

Fine tuning for better health (and weight loss)

How do I find time to start changing my life?

Juggling a family and a business?

what am I creating?

You're already creating your life through what you choose to do each day. Is it the life you want? Today, right now, you can start designing and living your dream life - one that is fulfilling, satisfying and joyful.

I changed my mind about bucket lists… how about you?

Living your dream life Pt 2: What if your dream becomes a nightmare?

What stops you living your dream life?

Reflections and Intentions: Make New Year plans at your own pace

Breaking the Myth of Work-Life Balance

Will your holiday season be fulfilling, or just full?

Do airbrushed lives damage our happiness more than airbrushed photos?

How do you inspire support for your big dream?

Living your dream life Pt 3: The real deal

Inside Living Savvy: When do you say ‘yes’ and when do you say ‘no’?

How do you bring balance into your being?

Inside Living Savvy: How To Launch A Big Project Without Burning Out – Part 2

Inside Living Savvy: How To Launch A Big Project Without Burning Out – Part 1

how do I show up?

When you're living true to you, when your beliefs, activities, behaviour and appearance are aligned, you can face the world with confidence. Being clear on our values, and being aware of how we express them through simple, every day choices, fuels us with the energy and motivation to keep moving ahead.

When you don’t have an answer for ‘Who am I?’

How a car unhinged my sense of identity

Who Am I?

The comparing game and why it sucks

Can you really reinvent who you are?

Lessons from a Showgirl: Be the person you want to become

Affluenza: What does ‘keeping up’ with your friends cost you?

What are your 10 commandments?

How do you feel about that ‘B’ word… busy?

More than skin deep? Makeovers and making lasting life changes.

Do ‘nice girls’ put others first?

Me and My Huge Handbag: A Trial Separation

Who *is* that woman yelling out the car window? Oh, that would be me.

Inside Living Savvy: How I keep going when I’m scared witless

Are you living true to you?

How do I show up? For myself or for the labels?

Inside Living Savvy: When you should listen to what everyone is saying

who completes me?

Strong, nurturing friendships are a vital part of a fulfilling, satisfying and joyful life. When you're living savvy, it's very important to have good friends – people who celebrate your achievements, challenge you to see your choices clearly, and support you in building your own unique, extraordinary life.

Why are you justifying yourself to strangers?

Hayley Lewis on what it really takes to achieve your dreams

What does friendship mean to you?

The power of asking: Who completes me?

Does asking ‘Who completes me?’ mean you’re incomplete?

Is it ever useful to compare yourself to someone else?

Rethinking the Exercise Connection

The Living Savvy CLEO debut!

How To Build And Nurture Healthy Friendships

Spells for your dream man… and your dream life?

Who moves you forward?

Have you found your tribe?

where am I headed?

Living savvy is about dreaming big, but it's also about valuing the process as much as the outcome – savouring the moment as much as the final success. A clear vision for the future will serve you in a very practical way, by providing focus, by guiding you in your day-to-day choices, and by sustaining you through tough times.

The Intention Reflections Mirror-Ball #1

“How will I be remembered?”

Learning from those ‘How did I get here?’ moments

How to live your dreams every day

Are You Living Savvy?

How do you keep moving forward in difficult times?

The choices we have, the decisions we make, and how to live a life without regret.

Skip the New Year’s resolutions… let’s reflect and focus instead

Inside Living Savvy: What to do when your dreams don’t come fast enough

Do you need the top job to live extraordinary?

Is pushing out of our comfort zone always a good thing?

Bucket list or dream catcher?

Work out what you want with a 3AM book…

Can you design the life you want?

Why I don’t do New Year’s resolutions

how-to guides

Follow the instructions in the living savvy how-to guides to help you uncover the knowledge you already have within, think differently and prepare to take action. Practical exercises for clarity, focus and inspiration.

How To Set A Powerful Intention For Your Year

How To Uncover Your Personal Brand

How to start meditating – without the stress

How to take a snapshot of the life you are creating

How To Start Changing When You Don’t Know What You Want

How To Build And Nurture Healthy Friendships

How To Be Happier Every Day

10 simple steps to start changing your life today

How to write the life you want

How To Create Your Own Dream Board

savvy voices

Our stories shine a light on how we live, why we do the things we do and what’s important to us. Through the experiences of others we can gain deeper insight into our own lives. In savvy voices, women from all walks of life share their stories, experiences and perspectives.

Real Women Living Savvy: Chasing my dreams in 2012

Having it all? In conversation on The Modern Woman’s Survival Guide

Real Women Living Savvy: On Being A Mother & A Rock Chick

Real women living savvy: What are you willing to do, to achieve your dream?

Real women living savvy: Building an independent life with Paula

Real women living savvy: Angela—7 kids, a new career and a Hallmark love story

Real women living savvy: Juliette Wright, Professional ‘Giver’

Real women living savvy: Kris and Lisa, creators of the Be Be intimate massager

Real women living savvy: Sarah Wilson

Real women living savvy: Sofie Formica

Real women living their dreams every day

champagne friday

The very important fifth and final step to living savvy is to celebrate! Champagne Friday is a weekly tradition where we pop the cork on the week that was, celebrate what worked, reflect on what didn’t, and look forward to a sparkling new week of possibility.

Champagne Friday #116

Champagne Friday #115

Champagne Friday #114

Champagne Friday #113

Champagne Friday #112

Champagne Friday #111

Champagne Friday #110

Champagne Friday #109

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Champagne Friday #107

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Champagne Friday #103

Champagne Friday #102

Champagne Friday #101

Champagne Friday #100

Champagne Friday #48 – End of Year Special

Champagne Friday #16: Looking back

life coaching

The living savvy approach for sustainable personal development and evolution, including the 5 steps to living savvy, is grounded in the principles of life coaching. Life coaching is about using questions to think differently, which leads to behaving differently and, ultimately a different result. If you have a goal of changing something about your life, life coaching is a process that will help you make that change.

What are you waiting for?

6 more powerful questions for reflection (Part 2)

What I really think about self-help books and how to achieve your goals

Overwhelmed by the big questions in life? Start small for big results.

Will the real me please stand up?

What are you holding onto to?

Things you never need to apologise for

The dangers of saying sorry (as seen on The Circle)

Are you missing the signs?

Inside Coaching: Am I ready for life coaching?

Inside Coaching: I am in a really good place now, how do I make sure it lasts?

Inside Living Savvy: Walking the Walk as a Life Coach

Inside Coaching: Look how far I’ve come

Inside Coaching: What direction are you heading in?

Living Savvy Episode #2: Learn how life coaching can help you

How to rock the living savvy approach for your unique dream life

Inside Coaching: What happens when you have the courage to act on your dreams?

Inside Coaching: How will a mentor help you to live savvy (as seen on the TV show, The Circle)

Inside coaching: I don’t have time to live extraordinary, I am too busy keeping up with the ordinary! (Pt 2)

Inside Coaching: I don’t have time to live extraordinary, I am too busy keeping up with the ordinary!

Inside coaching: How do you know when your dream is just too big for right now?

Inside Coaching: When did you last take a mental health day?

Inside Coaching: Building friendships

Inside Coaching: When asking ordinary questions unearth extraordinary answers (finale))

Inside Coaching: What if I’m stuck in a job I hate?

Inside Coaching: When asking ordinary questions unearth extraordinary answers. (part 2)

Inside Coaching: How do you radically overhaul a lifestyle habit?

When asking ordinary questions unearths extraordinary answers

Inside Coaching: How do I find time for myself (without the guilt)?

Inside Coaching: How do I keep all the balls in the air?

Inside Coaching: How do I make life changes that last?

Inside Coaching: Why is asking for help so hard? (as seen on The Circle)

Inside Coaching: Are my dreams big enough?

Inside Coaching: How do I take the very difficult first step towards change?

Inside Coaching: Isn’t making time for myself and my dreams selfish?

Inside Coaching with Jo: How do I dream big for tomorrow AND take action today?

Inside Coaching with Jo: How do I narrow down my choices to the dream that’s right for me?

Inside Coaching with Jo: What if I’m confused about what I want?

Inside Coaching with Jo: How do I find the time to make life changes?

Getting to know media star Emily-Jade

Lessons from India: passion and optimism fuel growth

John Raymond on life coaching

What is life coaching?

discover

We learn by making connections – with others and their stories – and by creatively applying what we learn to our own lives. A core characteristic of living savvy, and the key to personal growth, is being open to new information, ideas, people and experiences. Discover something new today...

Savvy web wrap #10: Taking notice

Near-death experiences, parenting and finding perspective

Who packs your parachute?

Are you too busy for words? Read this.

Savvy Web Wrap #9

Savvy Web Wrap #8: The happiness edition

Have you found your trouble proof paradise?

A great story has something for everyone

Savvy Web Wrap #7: Getting older… and discovering the secret to your life.

Lessons in Letting Go with Corinne Grant

Savvy Web Wrap #6: Why don’t you ask for help?

Savvy Web Wrap #5: Festival of extraordinary ordinary moments

Do we really need to hear another ‘being a supermum is hard work’ story?

Surprise package: Layne Beachley

Savvy Web Wrap #4

Savvy Web Wrap #3

Savvy Web Wrap #2

What are you reading?

Savvy Web Wrap

In search of a good story

watch online

Watch the living savvy online TV episodes, as four real women work with living savvy life coaches to ask the big questions in life: What I creating? Who completes me? Where am I headed? These women will be experimenting with small changes that make a big difference – fine tuning the ordinary to live extraordinary.

Living Savvy Episode #13: How to look ahead & choose what you want

Living Savvy Episode #9: Meet Karen & learn how she achieved her dreams

Living Savvy Episode #1: Introduction to Living Savvy with Jo Bassett

Living Savvy Episode #12: How to achieve life goals & find satisfaction

Living Savvy Episode #7: Cat reflects on the cost of trying to “do it all”

Living Savvy Episode #2: Learn how life coaching can help you

Living Savvy Episode #15: Meet Janine – starting her life coaching journey

Living Savvy Episode #14: Meet Jane – starting her life coaching journey

Living Savvy Episode #11: The living savvy women reveal their secret fantasies!

Living Savvy Episode #10: Karen shares her advice on tough times

Living Savvy Episode #8: Cat takes drastic action

Living Savvy Episode #6: Meet Cat – starting her life coaching journey