Recently, on my dawn bike ride through the grounds of Newstead Abbey to the Mansfield and Ashfield 2020 Business Breakfast I felt ridiculously happy. It welled up in me as I pedaled. By the time I arrived at the venue, Portland College, I was high as a kite.
Reflecting on it later, I see there were various factors that could’ve contributed to this uncommon happiness…
Read MoreDuring the 15 years when I ran my first business – Juicy Glass Ltd – I also spent many happy weekends hill walking and talking with a friend who was a GP.
Climbing mountains we chewed the fat about life, work, relationships, and parenting. The whole juicy shebang.
When things were stressful in my architectural glass business, I found perspective talking to her, and coined the phrase “It’s only glass” as shorthand for, unlike her work, it isn’t life or death.
Read MoreSomething I have got better at in recent years and I’m proud of myself for, is doing what makes me happy in the moment rather than only once I’ve attended to my to-do’s.
For those of us who have been conditioned to believe our value and purpose lies in productivity, outcomes and achievements this is a BIG DEAL!
This lesson is the most pivotal and has been the hardest to learn in my journey to what I call “living the life of my dreams on a daily basis”.
Read MoreDo you mostly pay more attention to what is wrong than what is right?
Do you often demand bigger better faster more from yourself?
We are educated to problem solve and wired to protect. Both attitudes weigh more heavily on threat than opportunity, and both are so embedded that we are unconsciously and habitually attached to these ways of moving through life.
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