A few months ago I noticed an acquaintance’s LinkedIn post. It went something like this: Keep hustling and fighting for your dreams. You’ll get there if you just keep pushing. This struck me. Really? Hustling? Fighting and pushing for your dreams? Is that really the best way? Read more to explore a powerful alternative.
Read moreMany of us are feeling isolated right now. We may be separated from our friends, colleagues or family, and are experiencing a sense of being cut off. It’s an interesting time to explore the wisdom of philosophers and mystics in light of cutting edge science, all of which affirm that separation is a delusion.
Read moreWe so often make things more difficult for ourselves than it needs to be. We create our own Difficult. We choose ‘hard’ and not ‘ease’. So how about switching that? These things don’t need to take weeks of habit changing, or hours of reflection. Nope. Please read more for strategies and ideas.
Read more‘Anxiety’ – it’s a word that was far from commonly used when I was a kid. Let’s face it – it’s a buzz word for ‘fear’. It’s just that it’s taken on a diagnostic implication. If you were to say “I’ve got fear”, you’d realise you’re saying: “I’m scared”. Then the natural next question would be: “why am I scared?” Read more to understand the ‘why’, and how anxiety can be resolved…
Read moreDo you consider yourself a ‘perfectionist’? Do you know other people who are? I’m a recovered perfectionist. I wore it almost as a badge of honor. It gave me pride. It’s how I described myself, and also how others described me. But what it really meant was that I wasn’t able to enjoy the journey; my achievements were never enough, because they were never ‘perfect’; I was living outside of FUN and in PRESSURE; and I wasn’t actually free to be my best. Here’s how to achieve your best performance by tossing the straight-jacket that is perfectionism. Take it from one who knows!
Read moreAre you a ‘high achiever’? Are you having fun? Here’s a pointy question: do you feel, deep down, like you’re enough, irrelevant of your achievements? Irrelevant of what you choose to do? Irrelevant of what others think of you? Would you feel like you’re enough without the kudos or accolades which come with your achievements – whether they’re financial, athletic, artistic, in business…? Read this to understand what drives high-achievers and its curse.
Read moreWe all self-sabotage. Whether we’re aware of it or not, we all do it. Ever wondered why you feel stuck, why you haven’t progressed your career further – even though you know you’re capable? Ever wondered why you don’t do what you need to do to be healthy, or why there never ever seems to be any spare cash? Ever wondered why you never seem to have time for self-care, or to do the things you really want to do that light you up? Ever wondered why that success you’ve dreamed of has always seemed to elude you? YES! It’s because we sabotage ourselves. We very rarely see that WE play a large role in our own disappointments; we undermine our own success without realizing it. Read more to understand how and why you unwittingly compromise your own success.
Read moreWe like to think we’re making well-informed, logical decisions, behaving in a rational way, running the show that is our life. We like to THINK that. But it’s the stuff that’s going on unnoticed, whilst we’re busy thinking, that’s got control here. The stuff’s that running our lives is running on autopilot., without our even noticing. Read this to understand the science of why your life looks the way it does, and what you can do about it in order to get back into the driver’s seat.
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