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Sandra Madeira

I am a working mum and entrepreneur with a passion for writing, coaching, mentoring and inspiring others. Subjects I tend to blog about are life skills, parenting, decluttering, worklife balance, career etc. I’ve been on a decluttering mission for years creating space in my house, garden and mind. In 2020 I challenged myself to declutter every day for a whole year and write about it daily. After that success I took on a challenge to change my career from accountant to life coach, and in early 2024 set up my own company. I continue to keep up with the decluttering, and now write daily about my home life and coaching business. Have a good day! Sandra https://www.sandra@solarcoaching.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandramadeirasmith
Sandra Madeira has written 391 posts for My Writing Notebook

Today I Feel Like Writing

I truly believe that life sometimes leaves us in the deep end because it knows that we can work things out for ourselves and that will make us stronger overall. These strengths can sometimes convert to energy to inspire others to pick themselves up out of the pile of clutter and actually move forward. I … Continue reading

Sorry It’s Been a While… I’ve Been Decluttering for a Year

When I wrote the post Decluttering Daily Leads to Writing Daily on 14 January 2020, I didn’t know where it was going to lead. For anyone that isn’t following me on blog.sandramadeira.com, why not hop over and have a look at a selection of the 366 posts that show my daily decluttering and clearing progress … Continue reading

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. A Thought Provoking Book by Charlie Mackesy. Beautifully Written and Carefully illustrated

As this book suggests, it is for readers of all ages. I’m 51 and I thoroughly enjoyed it; however, it could easily be read to children. I’d absolutely be reading this to my girls at bedtime if they weren’t teenagers now. Might even suggest it this week and see if they are up for it … Continue reading

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse… Has Just Arrived

This keeps popping up on Facebook as a really good book to… have in your life read from time to time share with friends and family. Miranda Hart also recommended it recently in one of her daily ‘chatty rambles’. When I ordered it a few days ago it was out of stock… and then I … Continue reading

Is It So Wrong To Like Being At Home More?

We are a family that naturally stay in anyway. We enjoy a combination of our own and each other’s company. And due to our busy jobs and school life, tend to enjoy being in the comfort of our own walls at the weekend. Our week days are now the same as our weekends, not I … Continue reading

Decluttering Daily Leads To Writing Daily

On New Year’s Day 2020, I decided to start a challenge on my other blog to declutter or introduce a mini system around the house every day in order to reduce the amount of stuff and provide more clear space. Yesterday whilst I was writing my thirteenth post, I thought about how happy I was … Continue reading

Decluttering inspires me to write again

I used to use my train journey to write until I moved jobs 5 plus year ago I used to write in my journal at bedtime until I got too tired I used to write in moleskin notebooks until I forgot where I put them I used to type on my laptop until it stopped … Continue reading

To do vs. to-do

Is it to-do or to do? This is something I always have to look up when I’m typing or writing it, so I thought I’d add a reminder here in my blog. My tip is: If it’s used as an adjective, before a noun, it’s hyphenated, as in ‘to-do list’. If it’s used as a noun, … Continue reading

Inbox vs. in box

I’m just going through what I believe to be the final edit of my book Juggling Life, Kids & You and I’m stuck on the word inbox. I have 4 instances of ‘inbox’ and 20 of ‘in box’. Which is the correct one? On turning to Google, I cannot find anyone that has written in box … Continue reading

Rewriting and adding content

I’m shocked that I’ve not posted on this site for almost eleven months, but I’m now back!  My excuse is that I was working on my non-fiction book Juggling Life, Kids & You which I am pleased to say is with the copy-editor and due back any day now.   Reflections on the rewrite When I said … Continue reading

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