Mind & Spirit
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What does 2024 hold in store?
One of the great things about writing articles weekly is that it’s pretty easy to go back to them and see how life panned out in 2023. These last few days I’ve been resharing some of the most meaningful articles that I’ve written this year.…
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What did I even do in 2023?
Before logging off work, I wrote a recap email of all the things our team had achieved this year. It was meant to be a short thank you email with a summary. But I realised that this would not really be doing the task justice.…
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Why we don’t need to be constantly improving ourselves
We’re nine days from Christmas, and I’m feeling pretty exhausted. Usually, I would start feeling reminiscent about what I had achieved around this time of year. But right now, I honestly don’t really feel like it. It just doesn’t seem very fun to reflect right…
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An invitation to stop using time-saving hacks
Last weekend I volunteered to help make food at an event. It was a pretty basic task. I had to restock the drinks bottles on the shelf, refill the snack bowls and make some pizzas in the oven. I was surprised to find it was…
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The balance between being right and being effective
This week, I’ve been reflecting on the idea of ‘being right’. After all, so much of what we do is based upon finding the correct answer. But what does being right really mean? For a long time, I saw being right as synonymous with the…
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Finding the balance between reflection and overthink
The last few weeks I’ve kept my days clearer and my evenings quieter. Some call this ‘slowing down’, though I find that term a bit confusing – because whilst I am doing less activities, my mental space doesn’t feel particularly less active. If anything, it…
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The power of spending more time daydreaming
I’ve spent more time lounging around in bed this week than I have done in months. And honestly, it’s been pretty great. This experience has been in stark contrast to my recent months. My summer was meant to be a period of downtime. Yet I…
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Finding the joie de vivre in our life’s work
I’m writing this on a lazy Sunday, where I’ve been feeling anything but with the essence of joie de vivre. I had an injury on my abdomen return on Friday. My Saturday was watching England get hammered by South Africa in the Cricket World Cup…
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Everything everywhere all at once is not a recipe for success
I spoke to someone recently who remarked that I sounded quite relieved when I told her I felt like I could just concentrate on just living for the next few months. Last week, I wrote about how we can better integrate the different areas of…
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A spiritual perspective on increasing our impact
Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash A month ago, I wrote about attending a talk by John Patrick Morgan. Yesterday he switched up the formula and chose to have conversations with people. I get a lot out of listening to him, so I fancied the…
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The subtle art of experiencing unpleasant moments
Five minutes before writing this article, I dropped my toiletries off the side of my sink. The result was a dramatic explosion of products and powders on the floor. Not only was the stuff kind of expensive, it was also a rather sizeable mess which…
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Undercutting our time spent overthinking
Photo by Laura Chouette on Unsplash How often do you spend your evenings thinking about work? Perhaps you have issues sleeping because you can’t ‘let go’ of the thoughts that persist in your head. Even when you’re on holiday, you will find yourself checking your…
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Flipping adversity into a source of strength
Heart openings can bring up a lot of emotion. I’ve been feeling it the last week or so. What I hadn’t realised was how much emotion I had kept stored in the body. My methods of dealing with feelings I did not like was to…
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Creating time and space to do nothing
Life can feel too busy to stop – even in the month of August. It can make it feel like we are on a constant treadmill of doing, with moments of respite few and far between. But what if rather than needing to wait for…
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Living life like you have nothing to lose
Last night (rather late because of timezone differences!), I listened to a talk by John Patrick Morgan, a practical philosopher who is highly regarded in the coaching space. The talk yesterday was around the concepts of living like you have nothing to lose, and the…
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Why consistency is so important for our life goals
There are many things we want in life – a healthier body, better sleep, improved skills or a greater income. Sometimes getting these things can feel impossible. When we try something like a new diet, we can quickly feel discouraged when we don’t see progress.…
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The incredible power of saying ‘I don’t know’
There are so many questions that we answer every day. Some of these are straightforward – ‘what should I eat today?’ or ‘what TV channel should I put on?’ But we also quickly amass large, existential questions that are so overwhelming and complex that they…
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The stick-or-twist of whether to celebrate a birthday
I turned 30 this week. And I wasn’t sure how much I should celebrate or not. I turned 30 this week. And I wasn’t sure how much I should celebrate or not. I have a somewhat difficult relationship with birthdays. I found it hard to…
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Constant ordinary action creates the extraordinary
This weekend I’m at another personal development intensive in London. Over this weekend, we have spoken about the way in which we create the different aspects of the things we want in life. I continuously go to these learning experiences because I learn something new…
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The ultimate freedom of seeing life as a game
This week, I took it relatively easy. Well, that’s how I felt anyway, the reality was that I actually did rather a lot. It was the first time in a long time I’ve been into the office five days in a week (my own choice!).…