ARTICULATING YOUR GOALS: It is a widely believed notion, that if you have a goal, you should articulate it. Tell your family. Tell your friends. That way, you make yourself accountable, and more likely to follow through. NOPE! Turns out, that the very action of talking about your goals, makes you less motivated to start taking action towards them. In this short TED talk, Derek Sivers urges us to MORE +
Happiness & The Secret of Small
When it comes to knowing what truly makes us happy, it seems that size does matter. And SMALL is where it's at. Most of you have probably heard the theory that our base level of happiness is pretty much set. So, even if we win the lottery, or (God forbid) lose a limb, we will likely be as chirpy or as stroppy as we started out, 12/24 months down the track. So, if all that death, MORE +
Are You Wasting Your Time?
Yeah, yeah. I know - life is short. We should get busy trying not to waste it. But - is that exactly what we are doing by being busy - wasting it? Well, Yes. And No. These days, everybody is OBSESSED with time management. It's all busy this, productive that and the person who complains the most, and sleeps the least wins. And where, my friend, is the fun in that? The German economist, Max MORE +
Motivation is Bullsh*t – A Short Guide to Getting Unstuck.
Most of us want to be better. We want better bodies, better relationships, better career opportunities, better bank balances. And bizarrely, most of us already know what we need to do to get these better, more fulfilling and happier lives. It's not rocket science. We just need to start eating better, spending quality time together, networking more, taking chances, putting in the hours MORE +
How to Make a Decision.
Did you know the average person makes roughly 35,000 semi-conscious decisions, every single day? With so much practice, you would think we would be total pros by now, but instead, we 'um' and we 'ah', we delay and procrastinate, and then spend ages overthinking if maybe, just maybe, we should have chosen differently. There are a whole heap of fancy decision-making tools out there, but life is MORE +
Three Things That (Might) Change Your Life.
The 'FALL IN LOVE' Test: Some years ago, Arthur Aron (and a few fellow boffins), conducted a study to see if they could make two strangers fall in love. It worked, and they did. Some twenty years later, Mandy Catron's Modern Love essay, 'To Fall in Love With Anyone Do This', describes what happened when she tried the test out. Spoiler Alert! It worked. So, if the idea of asking 36 increasingly MORE +
Self-Sabotage – Why we do it & How can we stop?
It's amazing how un-helpful we can be. To ourselves. I mean, you would like to think that the one person who truly has our back, the one person who would do everything possible to help us get closer to our dreams, would be US. Especially bearing in mind, that we would be the primary beneficiary of said positive behaviour. But, No. Somehow, the biggest obstacle between what we want and where MORE +
Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
I seriously don't know how I punctuated my day before Instagram. Did I wake up in the morning, lie there for a bit and then just, you know, get up? Did I order a coffee and just stand there doing nothing whilst it was being made? What did I used to do in a bar on my own? On the bus? In the ad break? I literally have no idea. You know things are getting really bad when you keep being reminded, MORE +
The ‘Married at First Sight’ Guide to Love
I am not immune to the odd binge of bad TV. I lost 58 (!) hours of my life to Love Island UK and was, quite frankly, ashamed of myself - but at least I did get a blog post out of it. Recently, I have been watching the absolute car crash of a show, Married at First Sight . - where a bunch of 'experts' match couples up and they meet for the first time at the alter. It's horrendous and compulsively MORE +
Wabi-Sabi & The Japanese Joy of Imperfection.
Foreign words are brilliant. Wundabar! Bonjourno! Tagliatelle! Pamplemousse! And maybe best of all, the German word Kummerspeck, which is a word used to describe excess weight gained from emotional overeating. It translates literally as Grief Bacon - how glorious is that? This week I discovered two more to add to the collection. Both words are Japanese and a welcome salve for those of us MORE +
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