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
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Moving forward
A major contributing factor to moving forward in life is being able to let things go. It could be physical possessions, people or memories and experiences. An easy example is if you tried something and it didn't work out. If you can't let go of the thing that didn't work you may find that it … Continue reading Moving forward
A labour of love
That thing you've been working on could be the reason you end up quitting your job or it could just be a labour of love. That word just has a way of diminishing the words that follow. It makes it seem as though a labour of love is a bad thing but it's not, at … Continue reading A labour of love
The importance of self-assessment in the workplace
Like ice cube said 'check yourself before you wreck yourself'. So we recently had our annual performance reviews at work and something I took from it was that it's important to assess yourself throughout the year. When you let a year go by without assessing how you're doing there's a higher chance you'll be surprised … Continue reading The importance of self-assessment in the workplace
Should we be attached to the outcome?
Yes, no, maybe so. There's a thing in NLP about outcome based actions, that what we do should be based on the outcome we desire. But recently I found myself thinking about how it's important to not be too attached to the way things turn out. At least not to the point where you crash … Continue reading Should we be attached to the outcome?
Caught up
There's probably around 1-3 things that are priority but 101 things that you could be doing. So of course you do the 101 things that aren't particularly important and spend the day flitting between them all. But then later comes, the things you should have been doing are now even more urgent than they were … Continue reading Caught up
Deciding what matters
Here are is one of the most useful questions I ask myself when deciding what's important. Does this thing matter in the grand scheme of life and death? It might seem bleak or a little full on but sometimes we need something extreme to snap ourselves out of a cycle of unhelpful thinking. As someone … Continue reading Deciding what matters
The things that matter
I was daydreaming a few weeks ago and I had this idea about what to do with all the thoughts whirling around in my mind. Get a piece of paper. Draw a line down the middle. On one side write the title 'things that matter. On the other side write the title 'things that don't … Continue reading The things that matter