In this week's In My Mind (IMM) I explore how you can turn envy from a sin to a learning opportunity, why you should celebrate the process because let's face it no one else will for you, and how we feel about the way we feel.
Unteachable lessons are things you have to experience to believe, you can't be told based on someone else's experience.
I have never been a massive fan of running. But this year something changed. With less than 90 minutes before the start time I registered with Park Run, grabbed my trainers and headed out. It's fair to say that experience was humbling.
Whether you create content or not, you have an impact on people's lives. Your actions affect other people on a daily basis without you even realising. Stop losing sight of the impact you have just because you don't have hundreds of thousands of people watching everything you do
I've recently become more aware of how urgently and easily everyone wants things.
Being nice is avoiding hurting someone's feelings in the moment, keeping things as pleasant as possible. Being kind is being honest in the moment, even if someone's feelings are at stake, so long as the long term benefit is greater than the pain felt in the moment.
It is now possible to know more about, and spend more time with, people on the other side of the world, who don't even know we exist than someone we live next door to. This is the essence of Parasocial relationships. This is a relatively new term used
Since starting at the gym I've become much stronger than I was before I started. Sure, I can lift more weight than I did but I can also see more strength in my life outside of the gym.
For long periods of my life I believed that making big efforts was the answer to creating the best future. But, this isn't how life works (for most people).
Over the course of my life, I had an arbitrary timeline for things I wanted to complete. So, here's my list of 15 things I have achieved in my 26 years on this planet we call home.
This week, I went to my first Neurodivergent community event. It was hosted by Unmasked, Ellie Middleton's company, and I felt so heard and understood!
So, it has been over 6 months since I went on this trip. There's many reasons this post has taken that long to put together.