Articles
Practical ideas and insights to help you navigate health, life, and live consciously. Real explorations of navigating life the best I can, sharing what I learn along the way. Take what resonates. Leave what doesn’t.
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Why Happiness Is Fleeting and What to Aim for Instead
Happiness is fleeting. It comes and goes. Think of accomplishing an elusive goal; in the moment, we’re full of happiness, joy and elation, but as soon as we reach the…
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Control Isn’t the Answer: Why Agency and Influence Might Well Just Be
‘We control nothing but influence everything.’ ‘We don’t control what happens to us, only our response.’ ‘Life is to be lived, not controlled.’ These are just three lessons on control…
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Perfectionism Is an Illusion: What Really Holds Us Back
No matter what endeavour we undertake, there is no such thing as perfectionism. There is just doing the next step, then the next step, then the next step, learning as…
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Why Relationships Are the Backbone of a Good, Meaningful Life
This year has taught me many important lessons, and in a few weeks, I will share the top lessons I’ve learned this year and how I’ve applied them. One of…
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Behind Closed Doors: The Truth About How We Treat Loved Ones
An observation from my own life is how differently we can treat our loved ones compared to strangers, acquaintances, people we just know, and the people who just know us……
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Out of Your Head, Into Your Body: Why Your Emotions Are the Key to Growth and Presence
“To be in the present moment means to be in your body” The fastest way to live in the present moment is to get out of the mind and into…
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Are You Driven or Dragged? How to Tell What’s Really Motivating You
Whether someone is driven or dragged is almost impossible to tell on the surface. It’s a personal thing that each of us has to question and ask ourselves to discover…
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Why We Don’t Hear What Others Say: How Our Inner Lens Shapes Our World
Here’s an insight you may or may not have considered… We don’t hear what others say. We hear through our lens of the world. This isn’t on purpose. In my…
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Living in Your Head Too Much? The Real Cost of Overthinking and How to Break Free
The problem with overthinking is that it keeps us in our heads. We fail to realise the simple but profound truth that life isn’t lived in our head but “out…
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What True Independence Means (and Why It Doesn’t Mean Doing Life Alone)
There’s a growing conversation online about whether we’re becoming too independent as a society. Take lone working, for example, and the growing number of people becoming freelancers and one-person teams,…