Change, even positive change, is often uncomfortable because it challenges our brain’s need for security and familiarity. However, navigating through this discomfort is essential for personal and professional growth.
Critical thinking involves examining things carefully, asking questions, considering different perspectives, and making logical sense of it all. It’s a skill that helps us navigate life’s challenges, make sound decisions, and solve problems effectively.
Procrastination is deeply tied to how we handle emotions like fear, self-doubt, and overwhelm. It’s a long-term challenge that requires more than a simple trick or technique. Some days, breaking tasks down helps. Other days, it’s about giving yourself permission to take imperfect steps forward and being kind to yourself when progress feels slow.
Hi everyone How is your existential angst today? I jest… but for many the crisis of the last few years has surfaced a sense of discomfort and anxiety about the meaning of life, as big crises often do. When life goes topsy turvy, people ask themselves questions like: • What is it all about? • […]
Remember the Titanic, a doomed ship and a tragic love story. The ship undone by a hulking iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean – Jack and Rose, the unwitting victims of the rigid social divide of a 1912 society. Rest in Peace Jack. Nice work on the acting front DiCaprio and Winslet. What a tearjerker […]
When there is too much doom and gloom going around, the addition of tiny but affirming habits daily can bolster our wellbeing and contribute to the building blocks of a pretty cool life.
In the spirit of being creative, I came up with an acronym around the word REFLECT that might or might not be useful. This could help if you’d like to dive deeper into a 2021 reflection exercise.
As the new year gets started, it’s helpful to spend some time reflecting on how things have gone throughout the past year. I usually haul out my diary and check back to see what my goals for the year were – did I get some things right and others not? What about you? Did things go the way you planned, or did the year unfold in a completely unexpected way? Yep, that happens….
The world is a glorious patchwork of diverse people living lives that might be profoundly different from ours. It’s important to rally against the tendency to think about people as either ‘us’ or ‘them’ as it can be a slippery slope downhill from there.
The starring role in the book of your life is you……possibly with the same highs and lows as the hero or heroine who struggles against adversity, sometimes winning sometimes not. So what characters are you playing in your life story and do they still fit with who you are now?
