Have you ever had one of those days when your task list felt a bit like this? Recently, I’ve noticed that the more I try and organise my life, the longer the ‘to do’ list gets. And the longer the ‘to do’ list gets, the more I look like this: . Although I’ve been doing [...]
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When was the last time you didn’t plan your day? When you didn’t wake up thinking ‘OK, first I’m going to do this, then I’m going to do that and then I have to remember to do the other thing by this time otherwise…’ With all that doing, there’s very little time for us to [...]
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Of course there aren’t reallyany rules, this is a post written purely from personal experience. You’ll find quotes all over the web telling you what personal development and self-awareness is, isn’t and ought to be. But as meta-Ralph says: “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson OK, here goes… 1. Know [...]
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If you’ve spent any time reading/listening to psychology, self-help books or gurus, you’ll probably have heard it mentioned. The F-Word. It’s the answer. The key to enlightenment. A necessary part of becoming a better person. According to these books, if we don’t forgive, we eventually turn into balls of rage and seething anger, trapped in [...]
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We all face it in varying forms at some point in our lives. Adversity. What does that word mean to you? To me, it’s an obstacle of some kind, a situation or event that prevents you travelling smoothly from A to B in life. Different people handle adversity in different ways: some give up completely, [...]
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This time on Sunday, I will be on my bike doing the London to Brighton Bike Ride (not to be confused with the London Naked Bike Ride). I’m taking part in a charity ride for the British Heart Foundation. It’s 54 miles with some significant hills, and a feeling that I will call ‘mild concern’ [...]
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In the last post, I talked about substituting self-destructive managing patterns for self-caring behaviours (in other words, everytime you feel down, go out and hug a puppy). In a perfect world, we’d all be able to make the switch with very little effort. After all, it’s just a question of remembering, right? The problem is, [...]
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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow -T. S. Eliot ‘Hollow Men’ We’ve all got those recurring nagging thoughts. Getting fit, losing weight, learning a new language, learning how to swing dance, starting on that great business idea. There are three camps of people: Those that get [...]
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We make decisions all day, every day. From what time we get up, to what time we finally crash, our decisions guide every step of our day. Sometimes these decisions involve doing things we don’t want to do, like going to work, going to the gym, seeing people we don’t really want to see, and [...]
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There’s a programme on the radio this morning about unemployment and incapacity benefit. Many people are calling in saying they are trapped. Being unemployed, they can claim mortgage insurance and benefits, which actually allow them a better lifestyle than an entry level job would. Although they would earn more with a job, they would also [...]
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