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How To Find What You Are Looking For
This week I am writing to you from the Canary Islands and I was inspired by a beautiful, small bird roaming around the garden looking for food. I noticed that it kept coming back to the same patches of the ground. It did this for sometime and then eventually flew off. It got me thinking…
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Fill Your Own Cup First: No It’s Not Selfish
I lived in London for a number of years with a dear friend who became my housemate. One of our ongoing jokes (even to this day) was my inability to gauge the right amount of water needed for 2 full cups of tea. With my sustainable hat on, I was trying to save water and…
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What Is Your Value System?
Values are values, they are neither right or wrong. These are not to be confused with your basic human needs of food, shelter, safety and warmth. Values are your building blocks of beliefs that signpost what is important to you in your life and how you live your life. Values are the moral principles and…
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Not Everyone Is Going To Like You (And That’s Ok)
Why We Like To Be Liked Will Storr talks about life being “a status game” and how we humans must play it everyday of our lives. There are all sorts of different games where you are striving for the reward of status for being valuable e.g. the person good at football, or singing or the…
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Gratitude Can Be Your Superpower (If You Let It)
I know you have likely heard it all before and the frustrating advice from friends and family on being “grateful” for something. Quite often this message can be infuriating especially when you are trying to deal with a difficult situation. With that said, expressing gratitude (in many forms) is much more powerful than you think.…
