Mind & Spirit
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Putting yourself out there is scary. But it is also incredibly rewarding
According to LinkedIn, this is my 100th article. I had no idea I would do this many. Yet when writing becomes a habitual moment of joy, everything else just flows. If I had spent too much time focussing on writing 100 articles, rather than just…
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There is no past. There is no future. There is only now.
I generally like to keep on top of my work, but recently I’ve found myself procrastinating. Sometimes I know a deadline isn’t coming for a while, so I can put it off. I believed that the time to do it was sometime in the future.…
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How to keep the joy in the activities you enjoy
I woke up this morning at 6:40 for a yoga class starting 30 minutes later. When I woke up, I felt heavy – I still am not sleeping amazingly and I didn’t have a whole lot of will to actually go. Despite this, I went…
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The limits to intellectualizing our life decisions
When we make decisions, many of us try to look at things very logically. We research information or ask friends for guidance. Maybe we’ll write a pros and cons list. But can we really make a pros and cons list to as big a life…
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Life is an ever-shifting enigma. Embrace it.
What is change? There’s been quite a few notable events in the UK over the last week – The Queen’s passing, Liz Truss as the new Prime Minister, and most dramatically of all, Thomas Tuchel being sacked as Chelsea Manager. The more I’ve focussed on…
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Clarity of thought will drive your life to its highest level
How much time do we spend questioning ourselves around what we should be doing? Should I go to the gym today? Should I find a new career? Could I be more fulfilled right now? At some point, we all go through a period of questioning…
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Balancing between mastery and being a jack-of-all-trades
I was in a conversation this week with someone who talked about having many different interests. It prompted me to think about my own experience and the guidance I got – on the one hand, people talk about it being good to have lots of…
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Why a £2000 cheque doesn’t make you as happy as you think it would
Yesterday, I was running around a little frantically between meetings. I take my lunch breaks seriously, but I also try and cook a proper lunch within them when I can. I saw an ominous letter on the table. It was from HMRC, the UK’s tax…
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What’s in a birthday anyway?
How much does a birthday really matter? I had my birthday this week. I was visiting the UK and in the end stayed for a bunch of work meetings for the day, including for a conference on concrete – which is a slightly different thing…
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The importance of cultivating a healthy network around you
If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound? If a worker does an amazing piece of work, but sits in a siloed team where nobody talks to each other, did they really do an amazing piece of…
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Are you awake or asleep at the wheel?
Work. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. Are you living life or is life living you? When I lived here, I followed the rhythm that I thought people were supposed to do – going to work and chasing more money to pay for a nicer room (due to…
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Life as a divine dream beyond time, space and matter
How much of our reality is based upon our thoughts? This week I’ve spent time on a retreat in a lovely farm in Kent. I’ve enjoyed getting away from the hustle-and-bustle of my daily routines. This has given me some space to focus on routines…
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How do you act when nobody is watching?
Yesterday was a bank holiday in Belgium so I flicked on a show on Netflix called ‘Insiders’ – a reality TV show which brings together contestants who think they are in the final round of a casting call for a show. What they don’t know…
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Letting go of ego-driven behaviour in our lives
Letting go of ego-driven behaviour in our lives
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Taking the brain out of my life’s driver’s seat
Without realising it, my brain has been in overdrive the last few weeks. I travelled like ‘normal’ for the first time – heading to the UK after work by hopping onto the train on Friday night. I attended The Ultimate Experience, an event around ‘Being’…
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Who are you choosing to be in your life?
I am exhausted, and have a stomach ache. I don’t feel like cooking and want to order a takeaway. What would not bothering to cook even though I committed to it earlier in the day say about me? I am stressed, as I have a…
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If you want change, you need to want something new
When we want to change something, it can often be hard to figure out what we want to change. The easy part is to say that whatever we have right now is not working for us, and that we need to shift this into another…
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Do we really need motivation to achieve our goals?
‘I’d love to do that! My problem is that I find it tough to find the motivation’ How often do we hear this phrase? We treat the idea of motivation as a sacred, finite resource akin to a rare gem. It is our version of…
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The more we judge others, the more we judge ourselves
We judge people. What clothes they wear, what job they do, how much sugar they put in their tea. Judgment comes from an upbringing in society which puts moral values on what is right and wrong. Our parents, teachers and institutions around us want us…