OFF STAGE with Lisa O'Neill

This week, from a stormy stopover in Nelson, I'm talking about being a proper life addict, squashing catch-ups and experiences in around the work, why I built the Purpose Planner to hold all of it, and how to make your own week a little bit juicier.

The curse of capable: you look after everyone, you're constantly disappointed no one matches you, and deep down you believe being useful is how you're loved. This week, I'm talking about why perfection is control and not peace, why the goal is to be redundant, and the joy of learning to be secretly capable.
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Release yourself from past versions of you, and turn your wounds into wisdom. This week, I'm sharing a timeline journaling exercise for exactly that, mapping your life in chunks and finding the advantage hiding in even the hard bits. Plus a glorious Spring Fling, why I've moved to giving experiences over gifts, and yes, it's the 21st of September.

Whatever you believe, you're right and this week I'm pointing that at Christmas, which is ten weeks away whether you like it or not. A little planning now gets you ahead, and Christmas is far more optional than we pretend. Plus: why spending Friday making paper flowers bigger than my head makes me better at work.

No one is you, and that is your power. After two weeks in Bali and Fiji giving all four of my energies a proper workout, that's the message I keep landing on. This week, I'm talking about my training in doing nothing, why a 67-year-old singer on a Wellington stage is my new role model, and the one job only you can do: being the most you that you can be.