Hey! I’m Michelle ✨ I create videos about slow productivity, intentional living and behaviour change.
Before I was a full-time content creator, I was an online learning designer. I created online learning programs for my workplace around topics like security, safety and bullying in the workplace ~ very fun funky and fresh.
Nowadays, I share ideas, learnings and thoughts on topics like:
💫 Getting things done in a way that’s a custom fit for your brain 💫 Managing your mind 💫 Creating habits that you look forward to every day 💫 Changing patterns of behaviour in a self-compassionate way 💫 How to create a life that feels good
I’ve been creating on the internet since age 12. Think drag-and-drop doll makers, glitter fill resources and glitter graphic websites. I was a mini entrepreneur, selling my glitter graphics on forums to grown adults in packs of 15 and making a cool $20 a month from Google Adsense 😎
I love the idea of By the book but for one of your videos. Right now I am struggling with my career, not what to do, but there's this thing I am supposedly good at, I am not so good at in that new place (I guess action day would be great for that!) but do you have a particular one of your video you would recommend or a particular section of the Life Map? I also love bashing my acts of kindness I do feel better when I do a bunch of it (which happens randomly but I can feel the difference).
i love my life map. i actually really stuck with it. i wouldn't describe it as "woo-woo" at all. i think it's gently engaging --a nudge in the right direction & just enough accountability to propel me further. highly recommend! chef's kiss
Thank you so much for your generosity! 🙏 I'm so glad that you resonated with some of the ideas in this video - and thank for your taking the time to leave a kind comment. I'm sending you lots of good thoughts ☀️
This couldn't have come at a better time! I just got my masters degree (🎉🥳🎓📃) after working and studying full time at the same time, so now I have "all this free time" and I want to get back to doing fun stuff! Thank you for wonderful ideas 🥰
Ohh yes about ‘wanting it or wanting to want it’, one of my favorite songs is about that and one of the lyrics is, _But I'll tell you what the worst is, It's the way it doesn't hurt When I wish it did_ And I’ve tried so hard to understand that lol. I think what she means is that she truly let go, to the point where being alone didn’t even hurt, but she kind of wishes it did, bc the good times were fun. But nbd. And that’s where I am. I am SO BURNED OUT by people that it’s irritating to even think of the words ‘date night’ I don’t want anything like that ever again. All I really want is a silent robot BF lol who never needs anything, not needy at all. Doesn’t need to be heard or understood. Just was something to lean on and do foot massages and do the cooking and chores. I have nothing left to give anyone.
Ooh that lyric has me pondering too! I think you’re right in your interpretation. Also: it sounds like you are TRULY burnt out. I’m sending you good thoughts, and I hope that you heal with ease, even if it means isolating yourself a little for a while. I think that even when what you want is unattainable / out of the ordinary, there’s something really free-ing about admitting it right?!
Muchelle, I don't know how you do it but you've been coming up with such valuable videos for years. Every time I watch them, I feel inspired. I love all the examples you give with your main points, it makes it even more inspiring. Thank you so much!!
"Lucky people do more random stuff" My mind was blown! Luck doesn't exists, you just need to put ourself out there! This explains so much about my adolescence, and why I feel so much luckier now!
Literally one of my goals when I create content is to give people lil lightbulb moments so this comment hits, I’m so happy that clicked for you! Sending you good thoughts 💛
I love your content, it has spoken to where I am in life on so many occasions. Your videos offer a perspective from someone who shares such valuable insights from personal experience and from their own healing journey. Thank you for positively impacting my journey to self-improvement on so many ways. You’re doing amazing things with your channel and I can’t thank you enough.
Ahh thank you SO much for taking the time out of your day to comment, and for typing out and sharing kind thoughts n’ feelings too. I really appreciate it and I’m sending you lots of love and good energy ✨
... and if you're really getting serious and wanna switch things up in the next six months, you can get The Life Map 2.5 hereee!! She's had a REFRESSHH: muchelleb.com.au/the-life-map-25 | The vision + goal planning workbook for people who wanna achieve stuff that matters and have fun doing it. Heads up, the audio in this gets a littlee funky at times in this video I formally apologise; if I wanna keep doing this style of filming, I might grab some of those clip-on mics to keep the audio more consistent!! Just want you to know I'm awareee and sending love!!
So true, and super helpful! A famous Victorian era occultist put it this way: "Pure Will, unassuaged of purpose and delivered from the lust of results, is in every way perfect." Aleister Crowley.
Hey Michelle, this video could not have4 come at a better time. I am a few months away from finishing my PhD, and I am so desperate on finishing that it's like I get to a stage of "What's the point - Ill never get it done".
Holy shit this stuff actually works! I’ve been job searching for two months and I tried the advice in this video and I just did better on a French proficiency test for a job than I did on the same test in high school (and that’s after five years of barely practicing my French and then a week of rushing to get it together!) and I just had an amazing job interview for a different potential role! I’m going to keep practicing this!
I've gone through about two years of counseling up to this point in my life and I remember my counselor telling me at least twice to draw a picture of a voice. She wanted me to draw what i might envision the voice to look like as a person. Once, I drew a person holding huge weights, looking over me, expecting me to do everything perfectly, and if I didn't, all of these huge weights would fall and ruin everything. I just wanted to share that because Miss trenchbull being referred to as that critical and shaming voice in our head is so helpful. Separating yourself from that voice and reminding yourself that you have a choice whether or not to listen can be very empowering! Also after watching that movie and being the outside person you can clearly tell that she was in the wrong and was not helpful at all...but when it's all in our mind, it's very easy to let that voice get us down and feel powerless and stuck. Thanks for all the helpful points!! I definitely want to be more intentional about how I speak to myself and I want to pass down that grace and compassion for myself to my children as well but it starts with me.
Hey I purchased the Life Map a while back and the update is a lovely surprise! Thank you for that, I look forward to exploring it :) And the printables are PERFECT, soooo happy to use them, especially the daily one!
This explains why people are so happy these days. We all have high expectations for what our friendships, relationships, jobs, day to day should look like due to social media. We think we should have xyz by this point and we should be hustling for xyz ALL the time.
This is one of the steps in the Law of Attraction too. At the end of visualising your goal or whatever it is you should just let it go or stop thinking about it to send it out to the universe. Its the ‘amen’ you say at the end of a prayer or ‘so mote it be’ you say in witchcraft. The timing of this video couldn’t be more perfect for me. I was literally just thinking about how fed up I am at not finding the right new house to move into, or one we could afford anyway, and I was almost cursing in my head at all my loved ones who have passed away for not helping me with my search for nearly a year now. You have helped me literally just stop in my tracks and realise that I am wanting it too much instead of just letting it happen when it’s going to happen. In fact now I stop and think about it I have had this message repeatedly sent to me recently to say I have literally put my whole life on hold which is what is getting me down so much. What I need to do (and my husband has already told me this) is to unpack some of the things I have packed in long ago now and just enjoy them as if we are staying here long term, as life just carries on. Thanks for this video, I guess it is just what I needed to hear right now.
definitely going to implement these tips! thank you for the update btw i really need a hard reset on life and the life map 2.5 is my big lil ritual for today ❤ would you be able to talk about how to navigate the abundance of info available to us and taking action instead of just collecting info? i feel like i've noticed this pattern of collecting knowledge but never actually doing anything with it? would love to hear your take on this
Desperate energy has been the story of my life for several years now, so I really appreciated your other video and now this one on it! I have a lot of old thinking habits to change, but I appreciate your incredibly simple and practical tips on it.
I kind of dislike this message, in part because of the other message we are told: the universe helps those who are already helping themselves. So which is it? It paints it all as a toxic relationship with fate where fate is the avoidant and we are the anxious attachment.
Can’t it be both? If you know about the Law of Attraction you know to put a lot of emotional energy into visualising your end goal, but then you have to let the feeling and energy go and accept whatever will be, will be.
In the past months I didn‘t click with your content as much anymore, but came back to the channel every few weeks. Absolute habit after following you for years and years. Haha. Anyway, this video will help my current situation with the not at all cloudy goal of „happiness“ immensely! I know why I still follow this channel around like a puppy: You‘re ability of breaking down complex and deep stuff, the clean and pretty design (I love the line art pictures!) and your overall positive persona. Thank you, Michelle!
hmm, interesting. don't know if I can relate to it since I think the label of desperation is giving it a really shame-y vibe. i think those kinda thoughts can definitely create depression and these tips would help prevent that. which is why I'm glad you said your thoughts don't create reality, they create behaviours that create reality. I think that's the real central point: how your thoughts affect your behavior is how your thoughts affect life. i just feel like this relatable cycle of life deserves a better name, I'm not keen on calling others desperate when I explain to them that they might be in this cycle 😅
Hmm that's fair! It doesn't carry those feelings for me, but I think I've talked about it / thought about it using that term in a more playful way. I can see how it might feel shame-y to others for sure. If you find a different name for it that feels a little better do let me know!
I guess you could say when you are in a state of longing it can give off needy energy. Theres many ways you can rephrase if you are worried about how someone will receive the information. However I find people who will be offended will be offended no matter what. There are people I have tip tooed around to say things in the nicest way possible and thats when they spaz out the most. I think its better to be direct. I find society is changing the entire English language to not offend and its getting tiresome.
It's weird but a lot of things you mentioned in this video kind of reminded me of Twenty One Pilots and the metaphorical story they've been telling about mental health. The cycles, being choked, imagining an antagonist to cope with difficult things... It just aligns so beautifully.
Hey! If you liked the ideas in this video and you want to put some of them into practice, you're going to looove my updated goal-setting workbook: The Life Map. Buy it here: muchelleb.com.au/the-life-map-25
