RESOURCE Top Ten Work/Life Balance Tips

1) Remember to value yourself and your time.

2) Treat yourself as you would treat a best friend.

3) Saying ‘no’ to a request that you do not really want to fulfil is effectively saying yes to you!

4) People will not think any worse of you because you said ‘no’.

5) Consider the activities that you enjoy and make time for them – you will find that you will work more efficiently as a result, as well as being happier!

6) Try to create clearly defined goals, in all areas of life.

7) Create weekly and daily ‘to do’ lists.

8) Set up a prioritisation system so that the ‘important’ tasks are done, not just the ‘urgent’ ones - like emails/phone calls etc.

9) Be realistic as to how much time a task will take and how much time you have available to do it!

10) Try to do the less enjoyable tasks early on in the day – then you don’t have to think about them again!

If you would like to be in touch, my email is info@clairefuller.com

RESOURCE Overcoming Procrastination

Causes of procrastination: 

• Other more ‘urgent’ issues ‘calling you’ such as the internet or emails; phone calls, other people being around and distracting you and so on 
• Unhappy – what can you do to become happier? 
• Anxious – what are you worrying about? 
• Feeling incapable – trust in your abilities far more 
• Perfectionist – feel you can’t do the job perfectly so won’t do it at all 
• Bored – extra reason to do the job you are putting off! 

How to overcome procrastination: 

• Make some space – working in a clutter-free environment will be more inspiring for you 
• Set realistic timescales – remember how long things really take 
• Decide to do your best – and know that your best IS good enough! 
• Begin the task – just a small step initially and find out how good that feels! 
• Take another step – set yourself a time limit – say 30 minutes initially? 
• If you come across a difficulty – ask for help (sooner rather than later) 
• Plan a reward for when the task is complete

If you would like to be in touch, my email is info@clairefuller.com

RESOURCE Productivity Pointers

1. Start the day with the most important task of the day 

2. Stop putting it off (!) 

3. Tell yourself to go back to it if you find yourself wandering away from it to ‘easier’ tasks such as emails 

4. Plan for the next day, the evening before 

5. Set your priorities first thing 

6. Keep assessing your priorities throughout the day 

7. Screen your calls – interruptions waste a lot of your time – you can call back ‘unimportant’ calls as a batch task rather than speaking to people every now and then, as they occur – this isn’t best use of your time 

8. Remember your values and what motivates you and use this to keep a sense of momentum throughout the day 

9. Eat healthily; foods which keeps you sustained rather than those which soon leave you feeling empty and lethargic 

ALWAYS: Keep on top of your emotional fitness – always think positive thoughts and work hard to continually reject the negative ones.

If you would like to be in touch, my email is info@clairefuller.com

RESOURCE Create your own 'Feel Good File'

Whenever you are feeling a little under par or lacking in confidence, use this information to immediately give yourself a boost. If you spend some time thinking about your good friends, fun activities, reasons to be happy in general, you will soon begin to feel a whole lot better! 

Activities that make me feel happy… 



Friends or colleagues that inspire me and make me feel good… 




Songs that uplift me… 




Recent achievements… 




Favourite positive affirmations…

If you would like to be in touch, my email is info@clairefuller.com

About Claire

I am a very conscientious and caring person. My first career was in nursing, at the age of 18 and I have been coaching since 2003.

I have been passionate about helping busy and often exhausted individuals to overcome any anxiety or stress they may have, for many years. 

By sharing easy to follow strategies this then leads to a calmer, more focused and happier life.  Then, as a direct result of this, motivation increases and so does productivity.

I am by nature a very positive and upbeat person.  I have learnt how this behaviour is beneficial for me and my health, as well as for those around me, so even on the days when I may not feel like it, I choose this attitude.

I am extremely focused and hard-working; I love challenges and good humour.  I love connecting with like-minded people and working together to create an improved and stress-free world, one person or one organisation at a time.

When we work to remove stress and anxiety we all begin to feel much more real and this is my aim.  For everyone to live a ‘real’ life, happy, fulfilled and successful – in whatever way you define successful.

Keeping stress levels low is crucial to me too, both in my business and in my personal life…

I have two adult children and a husband along with two dogs and a home to organise.  I have friends and family that I like to see as much as I can and I also enjoy playing the piano, reading many books (often at the same time!), walking in the local area and ensuring I set aside time for ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’ all the time.

I believe that:

• We are CAPABLE of so much more than we think we are
• We need to change and grow so that we keep ALIVE
• We need to keep our mind in check CONSTANTLY, to prevent negativity taking over
• We are too close to our own situation; thus we will always benefit from a NEW PERSPECTIVE
• We can do whatever we want to do as long as we take the ACTION required

My Background

I started my coaching business in 2002 and I developed it into full time in 2003.  Since 2003 I have coached hundreds of people, enabling them to reduce their stress, find more hours in the day, start, develop or grow their business and to become far more in control of their business and life.

Before Coaching I ran my own part-time music business, teaching piano to adults and children for over 10 years.  Prior to this I worked as a Computer Programmer (in the ’80s!) for a large national company as part of their Support Team.

I completed an Introductory Counselling course in 2001, and I progressed on from that to pursue Life Coaching as a career in 2002.

I found Life Coaching to be much more positively focused than Counselling. I trained with The Coaching Academy, Europe’s leading coaching organisation, and qualified with Distinction. I also took and passed their Executive / Business Coaching qualification.

Most of my work has been via Online Coaching and Telephone Coaching.

At the moment, I am unable to offer my coaching services in person, due to the need to be more available for my unwell and elderly parents, however there are several RESOURCES within this website, along with useful blog posts, to help you if you should be feeling stressed, anxious, or just need to consider a new way of looking at your situation.


If you'd like to email me you can do so easily, via info@clairefuller.com.

Contact Claire Fuller

You can easily contact Claire on info@clairefuller.com

I have successfully helped hundreds of clients since 2003.

However, more recently I have been unable to help others as much as I would like to, due to regular commitments to my unwell, elderly parents, which have sadly arisen.

Therefore, the purpose of this blogspot website is so that I can still share some of the resources that I shared on clairefuller dot com, but which is not live currently.

The areas that I specialise in are as follows:

• Overcoming stress

• Finding more time for the important things in life

• Creating a more beneficial ‘work / life balance’

Hence the topics contained within this site reflect these areas.
I hope you discover something of interest to you and benefit as a result :)

If you would like to contact me, for any comment etc., please do.

Feel Real Webinars

These webinars provide some instant support for YOU.

There are two webinar recordings below. They both run for approx. 15 minutes.

1. Top 5 Ways to Find More Time for YOU
2. 3 Steps to becoming Free from Stress for Life

1. Here is the recording (below) of ‘The Top 5 Ways to find More Time for YOU’. It is 14 minutes long.  I hope you enjoy it and take the steps described, so that you can feel happier and more fulfilled knowing that there IS time for you in your life!  You will be able to implement the steps immediately after watching…

Here is the recording (below) of ‘3 Steps to becoming Free from Stress for Life’. It is just 15 minutes long. I hope you enjoy and benefit from it and again, you will be able to implement the steps straight away.

If you’d like to be in touch, please feel free to email info@clairefuller.com

Thanks for watching!