Only by letting go of the old forms can you make space for something new to be born. – Eric Klein I’ve been thinking about the word “change” recently. It has mixed connotations for me: I think change can be positive, helpful, even necessary in some situations (ever been through a break-up?), but I think [...]
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So now we have our ledgers. We know what’s important to us in relationships, and we’re aware of those things that will affect someone’s credit. Using this information, we can gauge our current relationships. This helps us be more aware of our needs in individual relationships: which are being met, and which aren’t being met. [...]
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Two men came to change the propane bottle. We didn’t know this until the tank on the roof blew a pipe and started hissing out significant amounts of foul-smelling, and highly flammable, gas. Someone went to retrieve the men, who, unaware of the roof-top situation, had moved onto the next building. Fifteen minutes later the [...]
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Earlier this week, I sent out a challenge. The challenge was to honour yourself, as you are, by undertaking 12 Weeks to Self-Knowledge. This is my new offering: it’s a 12-week course with daily emails and sentence completion prompts. Here’s what sentence completion has meant to me, and why I think the practice is important [...]
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In the last post, we touched on some of the difficult feelings that can come out over the holidays. Today, we’re going to talk about difficult feelings that can be hard to recognise because of the concepts with which they’re associated. Giving and receiving Two things that are supposed to be delightful and generous, leaving [...]
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According to many societies, the holidays are supposed to be a time for celebration, warmth, kinship and all-round festivities. But with these things come challenges. The holidays also bring out certain dynamics: pressures, fears, tension, dissatisfaction, and a sense that things aren’t living up to our expectations, that they aren’t as great as they’re supposed [...]
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In this post, we talked about procrastination, and how it prevents us working towards our goals, dreams and ambitions. Instead of creating a ‘how to’ containing practical tips and suggestions, we’re looking at the core beliefs and resistance that feed procrastination. It’s not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add your own below. [...]
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Procrastination is a hard lesson. We’ve all experienced it at one point of another, and some us deal with it on regular basis. In minor form, procrastination is something that can be overcome with will power and rousing internal pep talks. In more chronic forms, however, it prevents us working towards or achieving goals, dreams [...]
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Picture Credit: Open Letters This article leaves me feeling both inspired and sad. Inspired because I agree with a lot of the author’s points. Sad because it highlights a pretty big issue in the personal development world. The concept of ‘self-improvement’. I don’t like the phrase ‘self-improvement’. I’ve used it in the past but as I [...]
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‘People think that if they eat the same breakfast cereal Stephen King eats, they’ll write like Stephen King writes.’ – Seth Godin I love this quote, partly because I’ve fallen into this trap more times than I can remember, and partly because once you recognise this fallacy, why it doesn’t work and what we need [...]
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