Looking back on the past couple of months, what have been your highlights? What has brought you joy? How have you been spending your time? For some there's a chance that they have been blossoming into a more truer version of themselves. Becoming someone who is considerate about how they spend their time. It's not … Continue reading In spite of everything
Tag: choice
Breaking up the day
If you''re working on a laptop from 9-5 and spend your evenings scrolling social media, watching youtube and binging the latest fantasy thriller series, you'll have spent most of your day staring at a screen. You aren't going out to restaurants, going for drinks, visiting museums, catching up with friends in a local cafe or … Continue reading Breaking up the day
Unlearning panic
Sometimes you just need to against the easy option. Panic is really easy to do. A moment of stress or overwhelm often ends in panic when you don't know how to handle the situation. If you find yourself panicking in these situations often, it'll eventually become a habit. Even when you can handle the situation … Continue reading Unlearning panic
Will we still have meetings post-pandemic?
A while from now we'll be living in a post pandemic world. Companies and businesses will have to make decisions about the way they will choose to work moving forward. Presentations, discussions, conversations and updates are all being done remotely when normally they'd have required meetings. Those meetings may have involved: a journey to another … Continue reading Will we still have meetings post-pandemic?
Making space for what works
Things that take a small amount of effort in the short term can end up providing great results long term. And in the moment when we make the choice to give more, it can be easy to question whether or not it's worth it. Things like: Ironing your clothes for the week ahead Making your … Continue reading Making space for what works
Knowing what you need
A useful skill to acquire is to know what you need in your off moments. But then to go one step further and honour those needs. So often we get a feeling for what we should do but we push it aside and trudge on. We tell ourselves it's inconvenient, we don't want to offend … Continue reading Knowing what you need
You might not get tomorrow
If you've got something to say, then say it. And if there's something you want to do, you may as well do it. You only have to look at the current events whether on social media or on the TV to be reminded that sometimes you won't get the chance to do the thing you've … Continue reading You might not get tomorrow
Pushing the boundary
Many people have an unspoken set of boundaries for what they do and don't do or a set of rules that govern the choices they make. And sometimes the boundaries that you give yourself become limitations. Suddenly you find that you're not doing the things that you want to do because your boundaries go against … Continue reading Pushing the boundary
Struggling to write
After a week or so of struggling to write I got my flow back, the words began to pour. I began to think about how difficult it had been to post everyday that previous week, until I caught myself and realised why I hadn't been able to write as easily. I'd stopped writing. In that … Continue reading Struggling to write
The third option
It's easy to fall into thinking that you only have 2 options. Do nothing or do what everyone else is doing. Sometimes that works out okay but other times you need a third option. That third option is to carve you're own path and do what feels best for you. And sure that might draw … Continue reading The third option
The Daily Gemm 