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1 April 2024
I recently had the pleasure of talking to 150 aspiring young leaders about using their minds to thrive.
I shared how life taught me about the power of my mind + 5 ways I use my mind to thrive.
And I made this video slideshow to share it with you!
11 March 2024
LEARN THE ART OF
LETTING GO
Use everything in your daily life as an opportunity to practice letting go.
Use everything as an opportunity to expand your comfort zone.
As Michael Singer says,
"There is no experience that life can bring you that is not to your benefit if you’re willing to learn from it, grow from it, expand from it."
4 March 2024
WHAT'S THE MEANING OF LIFE?
The start of a new month always gives me a bit of a shake, a wake-up to the fact that life is precious. My time here is finite and it’s speeding by.
Thinking about the meaning of my life spurs me to live each day with purpose and make the most of my time here on earth...
26 February 2024
WRITE YOURSELF A LOVE LETTER
Last night I had a terrible night's sleep!
It's really unlike me, because I'm great at sleep!
I was restless all night and then fully awake from 2am.
My mind was so busy thinking about a whole range of random things.
Things I have to get done.
Things I'd forgotten to do in the weekend.
Things I'm worried about.
And of course, as happens in the middle of the night, every small molehill felt like a mountain.
The more I lay there, the more my anxiety grew.
Then I had an idea.
I needed to write myself a love letter.
19 February 2024
THE WORST DAY EVER!
Check out this clever verse that epitomizes the fact that we can always choose what we think and how we see things.
The opposite of whatever you're thinking can also be true.
You can flip the script!
12 February 2024
MY FAVOURITE HOLIDAY BOOK
“Your life is your startup, treat it as such. Treat it with seriousness. Treat the inside of your head the same way you would treat your P&L statement.”
- Arthur Brooks.
If you thought “happiness” was a fluffy topic, think again. Arthur’s Happiness course at the prestigious Harvard Business School is hugely popular with "serious businessy types" and has a long wait list!
Arthur says he teaches happiness with the same seriousness as accounting, finance, or supply chain management, because -
YOUR LIFE IS AN ENTERPRISE.
30 December 2023
MY 24 PACTS FOR 2024
Gratitude, letting go, loving it all, awareness .... and more.
A new year is the prime opportunity for a fresh start, renewed focus on the person you want to be and the life you want to create.
18 December 2023
MY 24 PACTS FOR 2024
PACT : a formal agreement between two or more people, groups of people, or organizations.
(Cambridge Dictionary)
Technically, a pact is between two or more people or groups.
But you can make a pact with yourself.
11 December 2023
MY 24 PACTS FOR 2024
"Self awareness [alone] will avail you nothing" - Rich Roll
I've transformed my self-awarness from 2023 into pacts for 2024. In this week's Peptalk I encourage you to do the same.
Feel free to grab, borrow, or steal any of my pacts that resonate with you ...
A story of the power to choose.
If Viktor Frankl could choose to find peace in such horrific circumstances as a WW2 prison camp, we all can...
Maybe you think you shouldn't need to work to be happy, but the fact is you do -
We all do! Stick with me while I tell you a story, at the end there's an important point, so read on dear Peptalker, read on...
Part 2 : When gratitude feels hard do this -
A Strange “Negative” Strategy That Works Wonders To Bust You Out Of A Negative Rut! Plus an introduction to Stoicism.
Part 1 : When gratitude feels hard do this -
We all have those days or moments when if someone was to tell us to be grateful, we’d feel like screaming at them,
“Get real, take your gratitude and shove it!”
Why you're afraid to be grateful & how to overcome it.
I've been pondering a few ideas about why being grateful is so hard to do. I think this is important to address, because there's one, and only one, reason why gratitude won't work for you -
Gratitude doesn't work, because you don't do it.
Forget science, this gratitude stuff is a superpower!
There's copious amounts of research that tells us gratitude is good for us, neuroplasticity, rewiring our brain, and all that, but the more I practice gratitude, the more I get the feeling it's a superpower!
How to stop being distracted by worry.
One of the most common things that distracts us is worry. Learn Nir Eyal's strategy of making time to worry later. Set your worries aside and get back to what you said you were going to do.
How to manage your inner bully.
Each of us has an inner bully to some degree, atleast at times. What’s worse, our inner bully seems to rear its head when we’re going through challenges or feeling low. At the times when we most need support, our inner voice is anything but supportive!
Need courage? Look to your ancestors.
"One of the first steps to having more courage is to look at who you are. The values that underpin your life will fall out of your ancestry stories." - David Galbraith. Use this worksheet to record courageous stories from your ancestors.
End inner suffering with acceptance & non-resistance.
Acceptance and non-resistance are not states that happen instantly, but we can grow them within us - using the mantra, “This too shall pass” is a great place to start.
It's a miracle!
It's easy to get blase about life. If we see everything as the miracle it truly is, our day can be transformed from a "problem" into a profound experience.
Contemplating death can be utterly liberating.
Your time here is a tiny blip in all of the existence of life on planet earth. REALLY contemplating this fact puts your worries, frustrations, and fears into proportion.
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