Ideas of things are always beautiful and wonderful because we can make them whatever we want them to be. Reality on the other hand is much more rigid and fixed. It's like the ideas are the smell of a cake and reality is the actual cake. You could smell chocolate cake and anticipate it to … Continue reading Smells good, tastes bad
Category: Ideas
When to change your customer
In a podcast episode from a while back the host answered a question about what to do if your customer, the people you're selling to, aren't allowing you to make enough money. The answer was something along the lines of 'change your customer'. If you know how much you want to make a month as … Continue reading When to change your customer
Open to exploring
Who you are does not have to be so rigid that you force yourself to be defined by ticking several boxes and sticking to them. You can be one thing today and another thing next week. So often we go through life trying to find ourselves and figure out who we are so that we … Continue reading Open to exploring
Both can be true
Sometimes we choose to view life in such a simplistic way that we don't even consider that something is missing. You perceive things as good or bad and wrong or right without leaving room for flexibility. But often the truth lies somewhere in between. For example, Robin Hood was a thief which is bad but … Continue reading Both can be true
Unhelpful habits
Most of us have at least one habit that we know is unhelpful, in fact perhaps you can clearly see how at times it hinders your life. However, you choose to do nothing about it. You've accepted the habit as part of who you are instead of it being something that you're open to changing … Continue reading Unhelpful habits
Why people give unsolicited advice?
When someone you care about comes to you with a problem even if they don't ask you for advice you're instinct is to help them and to make the problem go away. You tell them what you think they should do or what you think will fix the problem because you feel like it's the … Continue reading Why people give unsolicited advice?
The problem with being picked…
...is that one day you won't get picked. If the progression and pathways in your life have thus far been based on people picking you, it probably feels pretty fantastic. But, what happens when you don't get picked. When we become reliant on other people determining our fate for us, we end up feeling lost … Continue reading The problem with being picked…
Let your life change
Sometimes in order to gain the change you are seeking you have to let go. You have to allow life to happen in whatever way that is meant to be and trust that things will be alright. You have to let go of the idea that you can control the way that things will turn … Continue reading Let your life change
Enjoy your life
It could be considered strange that we know that life is finite yet we choose to focus so much on the things that bring us the least joy. We spend our time doing things that take us further and further from our core selves and then wonder why there is so much emptiness within. Often … Continue reading Enjoy your life
Cost and accountability
People pay a lot of money to ensure they remain accountable. Perhaps you want to lose weight and you're struggling to do it alone so you join weight loss group. You might be a writer who is struggling to make time to write so you join an online weekly writing group. Both of these types … Continue reading Cost and accountability
The Daily Gemm 