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My friends & I held a ‘requests’ New Years Eve party – it must have been ooh 2003. We all chose 1 ‘guilty pleasure’ for the evening’s playlist. As well as classics We Built This City on Rock & Roll by Starship and Tease Me by Chaka Demus & Pliers, we danced to my guilty love: Reach (for The Stars) by S Club 7.
It was cheesy then, and it’s cheesy now, but I still love this song as the sentiment is second to none (YES, REALLY). It’s all about high achieving, not giving up on your goals and following your dreams. Yes, they
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warble about rainbows, but move past that and it’s the ultimate in motivational pop.
10 years on my music tastes have developed, but I’m still certain that pursuing goals is essential to happiness – even more so now I’ve got kids. In fact, that’s why I launched Selfish Mother. It’s easy for our goals to get relegated while we pay attention to family life, thinking that we’ll get round to them ‘one day.’ But, why wait?
If your burning ambition is to write a book then start plotting: it didn’t do mother-of-three E L James any harm
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(she churned out Fifty Shades of Grey on the laptop while her kids watched TV on the sofa next to her). And if Alison Lindley hadn’t have followed her goal of cooking up some on-the-go healthy food for her daughter Ella… we wouldn’t be feeding our kids Ella’s Kitchen.
Studies have shown that becoming a parent rewires the brain making it a great time to take on new challenges and achieve goals, and there is no time like the present. We just have to work extra hard to make time for them. That’s the hard part, right?
Even if your goals are
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purely to scratch an itch – say taking up pilates, or learning French – that little bit of self development will no doubt make you feel fantastic. Don’t trust me, trust S Club.
Read Life Coach Natalie Monk’s guide to Time Out here
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Molly Gunn - 1 Jun 13
My friends & I held a ‘requests’ New Years Eve party – it must have been ooh 2003. We all chose 1 ‘guilty pleasure’ for the evening’s playlist. As well as classics We Built This City on Rock & Roll by Starship and Tease Me by Chaka Demus & Pliers, we danced to my guilty love: Reach (for The Stars) by S Club 7.
It was cheesy then, and it’s cheesy now, but I still love this song as the sentiment is second to none (YES, REALLY). It’s all about high achieving, not giving up on your goals and following your dreams. Yes, they warble about rainbows, but move past that and it’s the ultimate in motivational pop.
10 years on my music tastes have developed, but I’m still certain that pursuing goals is essential to happiness – even more so now I’ve got kids. In fact, that’s why I launched Selfish Mother. It’s easy for our goals to get relegated while we pay attention to family life, thinking that we’ll get round to them ‘one day.’ But, why wait?
If your burning ambition is to write a book then start plotting: it didn’t do mother-of-three E L James any harm (she churned out Fifty Shades of Grey on the laptop while her kids watched TV on the sofa next to her). And if Alison Lindley hadn’t have followed her goal of cooking up some on-the-go healthy food for her daughter Ella… we wouldn’t be feeding our kids Ella’s Kitchen.
Studies have shown that becoming a parent rewires the brain making it a great time to take on new challenges and achieve goals, and there is no time like the present. We just have to work extra hard to make time for them. That’s the hard part, right?
Even if your goals are purely to scratch an itch – say taking up pilates, or learning French – that little bit of self development will no doubt make you feel fantastic. Don’t trust me, trust S Club.
Read Life Coach Natalie Monk’s guide to Time Out here
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Molly Gunn is the Curator of Goodness at Selfish Mother, a site she created for likeminded women in 2013. Molly has been a journalist for over 15 years, starting out on fashion desks at The Guardian, The Telegraph & ES Magazine before going freelance in 2006 to write for publications including Red, Stella, Grazia, Net-A-Porter and ELLE. She now edits Selfish Mother and creates #GoodTees which are sold via TheFMLYStore.com and John Lewis and have so far raised £650K for charity. Molly is mother to Rafferty, 5, Fox, 3 and baby Liberty. Molly is married to Tom, aka music producer Tee Mango and founder of Millionhands. They live, work and play in Somerset.
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