The Moxie Books Blog

What are you willing to endure to get what you want?

We get into bad thinking habits, one of which can lead us to lump all Primark shoppers into one stinky heap… and others can lead us to automatic thoughts like, “I know what I think. I know what I like. I know who I am. This is the way I vote. This is what I think about politics, religion, and that annoying man down the road.” We get into the habit of adopting instant opinions, fed to us by social media and the traditional media.

Thinking is Hard Which is Why We Don’t do it Much

Our Inner Dickheads hate change. They love the status quo (not the band).

There's no point trying to silence that voice, either; it won't go away. It's a part of you.

We're basically a bundle of habits, good and bad.

Which means every single action we take is a vote for the person we want to be.

For the past three days, I have sat at my laptop first thing in the morning and cried tears of frustration.

Every word I've written has been dragged out of my brain with forceps and no pain relief – and arranging those words on the page has been torture.

Almost everything I've written has been total crap by my usual standards.

Post-festive-sludging and I feel like my head is stuffed with roast potatoes.

I am struggling to form a coherent thought, let alone write about one.

This is extraordinarily vexing to someone who writes for a living.

Just because I got elbowed in the face once in Primark doesn’t mean everyone who shops in Primark is an arse. Just because I got elbowed in the face once in Primark doesn’t mean everyone who shops in Primark is an arse. Repeat until I believe it.