Category Archives for Mindset

15 Reasons to Write a Book

Listen to the podcast here:Watch the video here: Make 2020 the year you write your book…Ever thought about writing a book but never quite got started? You’re not alone.Here are 15 reasons

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100 lbs lost – real self found

Talk about casting votes for the person you want to be, dear reader.​Behold the power of habit: my beautiful friend Yinka, who has lost a whopping 100 lbs (45.3 kg) over the past year or so.She's tried

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A ridiculously small pin-head

I nearly exploded from the irony.​​There I was, in a group video call on a training about self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-criticism – actually taking notes about the problems excessive self-criticism

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Atomic Habits: My Book of the Year in 2019

Want to know how I've gone from a chaotic cranefly who couldn't get out of bed to a 6 am person who writes every day and sometimes eats like a healthy adult?It was a book what did it.Yep: I'm about to

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Getting mad at your future self

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.I want to be a person who springs out of bed at 6.30 every morning,

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Sometimes your words will be crap

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 –

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Growing Like a Rotting Badger

Some time last year, I wrote briefly about rotting badgers.Because when I see them on the side of the road, I get really sad. But they also made me think about the nature of growth...Because we're constantly

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Roast potatoes for brains

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

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New year new…?

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

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Koala asleep on a branch

Are We Sleepwalking Through Life?

Quick Summary...In an effort to make my brain dribble out of my ears, I've been thinking a lot about thinking this week.It all started when I went on a rant about Primark and ASDA. I stopped halfway

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