Of all the negative emotions, after shame, I think envy takes the biscuit: it seeps into everything we look at and it keeps us stuck.
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Posted on 04 February 2020
Want to know why we say things to ourselves we'd never say to others – and how we can be a little kinder to ourselves?
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Posted on 31 January 2020
Habits are easier to keep when people are cheering you on.
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Posted on 23 January 2020
What are you willing to endure to get what you want?
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Posted on 20 January 2020
Whatever you want to achieve, it's what you do every single day that counts, not the one-off grand gestures.
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Posted on 16 January 2020
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.
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Posted on 13 January 2020
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.
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Posted on 09 January 2020
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.
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Posted on 05 January 2020
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.
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Posted on 02 January 2020
Within the haze of end-of-year parties and admist the overindulgence of the festive feasting period glows an ember.
The glimmer of an idea.
The hope that perhaps this year will be different.
Maybe this will be the year we'll write our books or run that marathon or start that business or go after that big contract.
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Posted on 18 December 2019
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.
Do you know how I rationalised that ugly little belief? By telling myself I don’t shop in Primark because it’s unethical and because I want my clothes to last for more than two washes. (Both those things are also true, it’s just not the true reason I don’t like Primark.) -
Posted on 18 December 2019
Whether your project is a giant railway infrastructure, a cottage renovation, or writing your book, it will inevitably take way too long and cost much more than you budget. It’s because you suffer from the planning fallacy — with a healthy dose of optimism bias and overconfidence thrown in.