“I’m afraid…” When in Fear, do this
Have you ever felt like giving up? Like no matter how hard you try, life just keeps knocking you down? We’ve all been there. BUT if you’re reading this, there’s a reason you’re here…
Have you ever felt like giving up? Like no matter how hard you try, life just keeps knocking you down? We’ve all been there. BUT if you’re reading this, there’s a reason you’re here…
When I used to read articles on the internet of people promising a formula for life, I’d think how bloody ridiculous! As if there could be a formula for the perfect life!? But maybe there is a formula for life that helps you cut the BS?
This article was published in the 2009 edition of the Oprah Magazine
Once more round the sun we whizzed this year and around about this time, post Christmas lunch, with stomachs protruding (should we be so lucky) that we decide it’s time to change our lives! Here’s how to change your life AND make it stick!
It turns out those oh-so cliched phrases such as ‘this too shall pass’ are true! I haven’t been my best self lately. I’m exhausted. I’m short and irritable. And I’m brain fogged. My best friend and I always joke that we need a little 10 year nap and we’ll be just fine. But these days …
I thought just for ‘fun’ I’d see what was searched the MOST on Google this year. And guess what? It turns out, not surprisingly, we’re all pretty shattered.
I’d been learning all about what it means to have a “Growth Mindset” thanks to a small obsession I had with a company called Growth Tribe in Amsterdam long before anyone had ever dreamt of getting rich selling designer Facemasks. (No jokes, check out this mask design from Dolce&Gabbana although I’m more of a Ferrari and McLaren gal myself.)
There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak….
This whole Coronavirus whilst making me some things in a new perspective has also brought home some truths I’ve long since known but never articulated in one place. Let me say this is by no means any answer to life however remembering these truths and even more importantly embodying some of them have helped me recently more than ever.
So I know there’s ALOT to deal with right now! I do. The world probably feels like it’s ending, you’re possibly trying to balance a million different tasks, and now Lisa you want to talk issues?!