Infinite Mind Life Coaching

30/12/2022

As we end 2022, it's time to celebrate YOU. Too often we are taught to celebrate the wins and achievements or the big milestone events or goals we have achieved. Instead I encourage you to reflect on and celebrate experiences, moments and lessons that helped shape you this year.

So looking back on 2022, I invite you to consider these prompts:

- What's something that you learned about yourself?
- What's something that you are proud of? (hint - try to make it be about you)
- A moment from 2022 that brought you joy?

I would love you to share your reflections from 2022 - sharing the beautiful moments in our lives helps to share the joy and positive energy with others.

30/12/2022

You can set all the goals and New Years resolutions that you like, but if your mindset isn't aligned to the life you want then you'll keep getting in your own way.

If you're ready to start thinking, feeling and living differently and want to press the reset button on your mindset, then join me from Monday 9th January 2023 as I take you on this 28 Day Mindset Reset Challenge.

Who is this Challenge for?
Are you getting in your own way? Staying stuck in your comfort zone? Afraid to try new things for fear of failing? Expecting the worst and thinking negatively? However your mindset is holding you back let's go and blow up all the BS that you tell yourself and start moving forward.
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What you will learn in this Challenge:
- What is your Mindset and where did it come from?
- How you can reprogram your mindset - what is neuroplasticity?
- How to create your own Mindset Flips to change your thinking
- How your mindset and your energy are directly linked and how a positive mindset creates positive energy
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This 28 Day Mindset Reset Challenge includes:
- Daily tips and advice via Lives and posts for 28 days via Private LinkedIn and Facebook Groups
- Members can ask questions in the Groups for Margaret to answer
- Access to downloadable Worksheets and Journal Prompts
- 2 x 60 minute weekly group online coaching sessions - attend whichever one best suits your timezone - (8pm Monday AEDST and 8am Tuesday AEDST)
- Sessions are recorded for you to watch back in your own time
- Access to Linked In and Facebook Groups and content for 90 days

28 days of coaching and support, 4 x live group coaching sessions, worksheets and activities for only $49 AUD. Learn more and book your spot in the challenge at https://www.infinitemindlifecoaching.com.au/28daymindsetreset

14/12/2022

Imposter Syndrome is experienced by more than 70% of people in the workplace, and is more common in women than men. But did you know that there are actually 5 different personality types that fall under Imposter Syndrome and Perfectionist is only one of them.

Find out which personality type you most identify with. You may actually relate to more than 1 type - having one type as your core personality and slipping into different ones in different circumstances. Let me know in the comments what personality type/s you are.

For me I used to be a #1 Perfectionist and #5 Super Person, sometimes a #3 Soloist which is why I could never delegate! I was always well aware of my shortcomings so never a #4 Natural Genius or #3 Expert.

I held a webinar yesterday talking about Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Perfectionism. You can watch a replay of this and my other webinars at https://www.infinitemindlifecoaching.com.au/webinars

If you're tired of trying to fake it til you make it and ready to make some changes in how you are showing up in your life, please get in touch with me here on LinkedIn or make time to chat with me at https://calendly.com/infinitemindlifecoaching/30min

27/11/2022

These two photos show what stress, worry and exhaustion do to you versus happiness, health and purpose. And no I am not selling magic pills or potions or anything of the sort.

Photo #1 was taken on the day that I was starting my 2 months sick leave from my job, and 2 weeks after my 3rd hospital visit for burnout. At the time I was suffering with depression, anxiety, high blood pressure, chronic diarrhea, adrenal fatigue, hormonal dis-regulation, insomnia and was a "grey area" alcoholic. I actually thought I looked pretty good on this day and was feeling great to finally be taking some time off to rest and recover. I had just started my spiritual and coaching journey this same week. I was wearing makeup in this photo and had the "soft focus" filter on.

Photo #2 was taken 6 months later and 1 month after I had left my $250K a year corporate job. I had zero income and was living off my life savings and had just started Queen of my own Universe and Infinite Mind Life Coaching and had no clients yet. What I did have was faith in myself, faith in the universe and an unshakeable belief that somehow everything would work out for my best life. All the health issues I had previously been suffering were gone, I was off my blood pressure medication and no longer needing to see the doctors, therapists and specialists that had been part of my life for the previous 15 months. In this photo I am wearing almost no makeup (a girl gotta have lip gloss though) and it is unedited and untouched. I am practicing everything that I now teach to others.

You don't have to quit your job to change the trajectory of your life. I could go back into the corporate world and a demanding job now and still be as happy, peaceful and well as I am now because of how I now know myself, I've healed from the inside and I know how to set and hold my boundaries.

If you want to know how much better you can feel (and look) in 6 months time then you do now, there's quite literally only 3 things you need to do:
1. Stop talking about it and complaining about your life and decide that it's time for you to start living
2. Get in touch with me and let's talk about how you want to feel.
3. Do the work and start the process of getting to know yourself.

What will your "before" and "after" photos look like? I can't wait to see your transformation to living a life you love too.

22/11/2022

There's so much more to your mind than the conscious part that we operate in every day. Freud's theory on the parts of the mind helps us to understand this better.

Your Conscious Mind is the active thoughts and perceptions that you have about what is happening to you and around you. This is the part of your mind responsible for logical thinking and problem solving.

Your Subconscious Mind is made up of smaller Preconscious and Unconscious parts. This is the deep levels of your mindset and beliefs that were formed from before you were even born through until about the age of 7 years old, and based on what you saw and experienced - good and bad. This is where your beliefs and bias stem from and what your emotions and reactions are driven by. Something that you were told or observed as a young child may still play out for you today in how you view yourself, others and the world.

The Subconscious is where the "Self" identity lives. Self-worth, self-belief, self-confidence, self-doubt, self-awareness, self-enablement, self-sabotage. For those with self-limiting beliefs such as I'm not good enough, I can't do that, I'm no good at that, nothing good ever happens to me, if something can go wrong it will go wrong for me - this is coming from your subconscious mind.

The subconscious mind also houses how we see the world and others in it. What is your mindset about success, wealth, money, love, life in general? Is money the root of all evil and doesn't buy happiness? Are successful people arrogant and greedy and not very nice? Does anything good in life never come easy? Do you hear your parents or grandparents voices in some of your thoughts? Cultural backgrounds also show up in our subconscious thoughts.

The subconscious mind is why we set New Years Resolutions of things that we know we want to do/are good for us (conscious thinking) and yet we fail to achieve year after year. The subconscious mind is why we stop ourselves from chasing our dreams because fear and uncertainty takes over.

Understanding your subconscious mind and the thoughts and beliefs that make up your Mindset is the starting point to changing the trajectory of your life. You can rewire your brain to think and act differently, and thereby achieve different outcomes. New mindset = new results. Same mindset = same results.

Now imagine a team in your organisation where everyone understands their individual mindset and how to harness to achieve greatness? How the language we use in the workplace every day can change the energy and direction of success?

The Reset Your Mindset program that I run through Infinite Mind Life Coaching is a game changer and life changer. This program can be run for individuals or groups in a 90 minute to half day format. Learn more at and download a Workplace Wellbeing program brochure at https://www.infinitemindlifecoaching.com.au/resetyourmindset

20/11/2022

You know all those times when you say yes but you really want to say no.

And then you end up feeling used, taken advantage of, walked over. Maybe even cross at yourself because you didn't stand up for yourself. Healthy boundaries at home and in the workplace are essential for your well-being.

This article helps you to understand why you struggle with setting and holding boundaries, and some alternative phrases and tools you can use to start empowering yourself.

boundary setting, healthy boundaries, coaching, life coach, Margaret Foley, Infinite Mind Life Coaching, Frankston, Melbourne, Life Coach Melbourne

15/11/2022

One of the biggest topics I am asked to help people with is how to stop their self-sabotaging behaviours and negative self-talk.

You know when you keep saying negative things to yourself the moment that you dare to get a little brave and do something different?

Or how you set New Years Resolutions every January and by February they are a long lost memory?

Or how everyone else seems to be chasing their dreams, getting promoted, starting their own business and you're still just talking about it?

Welcome to your Comfort Zone. Learn how to get out of it with fear and pain and start stepping into the life that you actually want to live.

14/11/2022

Burn out is a slow, insidious creep. It gas lights sufferers into thinking it's just stress, or things will get better soon when things settle down at work/home. Your Inner Critic gets louder. The shame of being weak and not coping if you let anyone see what's really going on. The fear of being exposed as an imposter or being seen as a failure. The sleepless nights that turn into physical illness. The family relationships that suffer under the burden.

68.5% of Australian workers reported experiencing burnout to some extent in a workplace survey in September 2022. The Microsoft Global Work Index 2022 found Australian workers the most burnt out in the world.

Some might think that the term burnout is being used to describe periods of stress, but burnout is more than stress. There are 5 stages of burn out and symptoms at each stage. I've written this article to try and describe them in relatable ways, and give 5 keys to preventing burn out. And if you're already there or well on your way, my heart goes out to you and I am here to help.

I'm a 3X burnout survivor. Actually, truth be told I'm a survivor of burn out more than 3 times, it's just that it put me in hospital 3 times, and the rest of the time in between hospital visits I lived in a state that fluctuated anywhere between chronic stress and severe burnout. I share my experie...

10/11/2022

Want to practice mindfulness at work but you're too busy? Here's 3 mindfulness techniques that you can do in under 60 seconds that your heart, mind and body will thank you for.

These tips are part of the Mindful in Minutes program that I deliver through Infinite Mind Life Coaching. Simple, effective, woo-woo free training to help to reduce stress, anxiety and overwhelm at home and at work. Wellbeing at Work is because every one deserves to be a Well Being.

Say the word "mindful" and most people think you're talking about meditation and chanting and some other hippy dippy stuff. And maybe they think that the workplace and mindfulness can't co-habit. After all, it's not like I can just zone out and start meditating in the middle of a meeting. Do we need...

04/11/2022

Infinite Mind Life Coaching Founder Margaret (Marg Foley) is in the news this weekend, featured in a 2 page article in the Australian Financial Review including a photo and mention on the front cover of this weekends edition!

Infinite Mind Life Coaching, and Margaret's other business Queen of my own Universe, is changing lives and starting conversations in workplaces around what the new paradigm of Workplace Wellbeing is today.

You don't need to pick up a paper copy or pay to read the article. You can read it for free online https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/careers/meet-the-corporate-quitters-searching-for-purpose-20221010-p5boof Thank you to the FinReview for giving little start ups like mine the space and exposure, this will change the trajectory of my business and possibly my life, that's how big this is.

Lenny the doggo 🐶 is also happy to be a media star, but he now wants to be paid royalties in extra treats.

30/10/2022

Burnout isn't just feeling tired and bit stressed. Burnout is such a serious health condition.

In a recent Australian Workplace Survey, 68.5% of workers reported experiencing burnout in 2022. The Microsoft Global Work Index 2022 found Australian workers to be the most burnout in the world, especially Australian Managers.

The World Health Organisation who defines burnout as:

"...Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions:

- feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion;
- increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and
- reduced professional efficacy..."

There are 5 stages that someone suffering from burnout can go through in the workplace. Burnout can creep up on sufferers over a period of time, and the damage that can be done to both physical and mental health can be life threatening.

You know how when you first start a new job everything seems great and amazing and you're so happy that you made the move to join this organisation. Then over time, stress starts to appear and the rose coloured glasses get a little less rosy. Fast forward a period of time and you're stressed, unwell and can see that the job is destroying every part of your wellbeing at home and at work. That's the burnout roadmap.

I experienced Habitual Burnout to the point of illness and hospitalisation on 3 occasions, because I didn't listen and didn't know how to manage or make changes when I first recognised that things were getting past a heathy level of stress. I now educate and support organisations, managers and employees on:

- Workplace Wellbeing initiatives to create well workplaces
- Stress management techniques
- Preventing burnout before it happens
- Recovering from burnout and ensuring it doesn't reoccur

I work 1:1 with individuals to help you prevent chronic stress or burnout, or if you're already there I can help you to recover from it and ensure it doesn't creep back up on you again. Who really wants to get hit by the burnout bus more than once?

I work with organisations to introduce stress management and workplace wellbeing programs to empower their people with tools and techniques, that will help the organisation meet not only their implied moral obligations for caring for their people but also their legal obligations for managing and reducing the risk of psychological harm under Workplace Health and Safety legislation.

Learn more at https://www.infinitemindlifecoaching.com.au/

Book a time to chat with me about how I can help you or your organisation at https://calendly.com/infinitemindlifecoaching/workplace-wellbeing-discussion