Sometimes in life you can be so set on knowing yourself and figuring out who you are that you don't leave room for flexibility. I think it's important to find the balance between knowing yourself, whilst still remaining open to new things. You don't want to end up being rigid. However, the reason we close … Continue reading Open to change
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Taking a break
It might not be what you want to do but perhaps it is exactly what you need right now. So often instead of taking regular breaks, we wait until the point of exhaustion to finally slow down and rest. Perhaps you've convinced yourself that you need to work hard in order to rest or reach … Continue reading Taking a break
Stripped back
When your life gets overwhelming and everything feels like too much, you might need to strip things back for a little while. When you remove things from your life it makes you realise whether you really want or even need them. You could log out of your social media accounts (or at least mute everyone … Continue reading Stripped back
A fresh start is a mindset not an action
When you think of a fresh start, what comes to mind? A new city, a new stage in education, a new country, a new relationship, a new job, a promotion or a new home. As much as those things are the beginning of new chapters in our lives, they don't necessarily mark a fresh start. … Continue reading A fresh start is a mindset not an action
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
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 are you online?
There was once a time where we would tune out of 'real life' and go online. These days many of us live online and tune out to experience 'real life'. We go from Instagram to Twitter to YouTube to Amazon to clothes shopping to reading articles to watching webinars. Not necessarily in that order and … Continue reading Why are you online?
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?
Using your voice and speaking your mind
And sometimes you realise that you've changed. Maybe few years ago or even just last year you'd have said nothing, said it was fine and pushed how you felt aside. You may have been upset, hurt or just frustrated but you were too afraid to show it for fear of your feelings being invalidated. But … Continue reading Using your voice and speaking your mind
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
The Daily Gemm 