Searching for something that sets you alight is totally ok. You are not alone. You are not lost. It’s not worrying that you haven’t found your thing yet. The searching is what it’s all about. Making mistakes, taking risks, trying things and hating them, trying other things and loving them, trying things …
I don’t even know if I’ve written about ‘choice’ before. But I know that right now it has more resonance with me that ever before. I have realised that I get to chose every moment of my life, right down to whether to get up off the sofa, look at my emails, …
I’ve had a realisation recently about the importance of treating myself with respect and admiration. It feels like a new notion, I’ve spent much of my life telling myself I could have done things better, I should be slimmer, I should be more fun, I should have succeeded more in my career… …
I used to travel a lot. Arriving in a new country with nothing more than a back pack and a recommendation of a place to stay, I experienced a massive range of emotions and learnt so much about trust and the art of letting go. (On returning from a long trip I …
What I’ve discovered is that I’ve spent periods in my life ‘flat lining’. Not literally, (I didn’t die) but I’ve just motored on and not actually been aware of how I’ve felt about things. I was introduced to the notion that life is like a heart monitor, with the peaks and troughs …
by sports people who show such raw emotion. The start of Wimbledon has reminded me of this. I love it, I find myself shedding a tear regularly when watching athletes do their thing. When they win, lose, injure themselves, climb into the audience to hug their family with absolute joy… It’s just …
Previously, I worked towards events in my life and focussed so heavily upon them that nothing else mattered in the build up. And then, once the event had passed, I forgot the whole process and moved on with little reflection. I started wondering how many of us actually tell ourselves our story …
It became a butterfly… A beautiful little quote I came across.
Anthony Robbins says there are six basic human needs: Certainty, Uncertainty, Significance, Love/connection, Growth and Contribution. I understand basic human needs in the context of survival – eg food, shelter etc. But I think he is talking about thriving, rather than just surviving… The basic human need that I initially struggled to …
