Tag: Self-compassion

It is easy to feel reduced by life. Please don’t let that happen.

There is a quote I’m currently obsessed with. It comes from the promotional tour the cast of the movie The Life of Chuck did recently (it’s one of my favourite films of recent years – I referenced it in a post last month (link here) and will no doubt devote an entire post to it …

Don’t crave feedback or responses from people. IT DOESN’T MATTER!

Recently, I’ve been trying to change my entire viewpoint on craving feedback / responses from people. It’s working to a degree, primarily as I keep telling myself that, fundamentally, IT REALLY DOESN’T MATTER! (I don’t normally like using capitals in sentences, though the emphasis is certainly needed here…) Why has this become ‘a thing’ for …

What could we achieve if we just believe in ourselves a little more?

Prior to becoming a Project Manager, I worked in Quality Management. The aspect of that role which I loved was continuous/process improvement – looking at ways of working and determining how things could be made better. Something about that must have stuck with me as I’ve always been interested in how we can make things …

The 5 regrets of the dying: ridiculously important life lessons most of us learn too late

As has been the case with numerous previous blogs, this is inspired by a podcast I recently listened to. In fact, it is inspired so much by the podcast episode, the whole post is pretty much a transcript / ‘lift and shift’ of the conversation. It provides some profound and important messages, hence why I’ve …