Tag: inspire

February Pep Talk – Don’t Give In – Get Back Up

Don’t. Give. In. I get it. You’re tired. You’re frustrated. You’re downtrodden. Nope – scrap that. You’re exhausted. You’re infuriated. You’re defeated. You tried. You really, honestly, truly did. You gave it everything. You put in the hours. You made the sacrifices. It didn’t matter. It didn’t work. So why should...

The Master List of 2020 Pep Talks

Wow. Here we are. The last Monday of 2020. Since starting these pep talks back in July, I’ve written twenty-two this year. That’s a fair bit of pep! So, to close the year out, I thought I’d do a mini round-up of my favourite ones – the best themes I think...

Enjoy Yourself

It’s Christmas week! That probably means you’re immensely busy, so I will keep this one short and sweet. That’s also what I want to talk about though. The holidays are such an easy time to get stressed out and overwhelmed, and that is the complete opposite point of them. This...

Be Kind

I’m not getting mushy on you. In fact, I’m going to be quite aggressive about it. Be damn kind!! There is only one beneficial thing in this entire world that absolutely everyone has the ability to do, which actually helps others and makes the world a better place, and that’s...

The Glass Half Full Challenge

I’m going to keep this one short and sweet today (alright, I know, I can hear you laughing). I don’t want to write an entire pep talk about the virtues of looking on the bright side (even though, okay, that is a totally valid topic). (Maybe another day.) But I...

Your Brain Is A Caveman

Human brains are wired for survival. They’ll pick the safest, easiest, most comfortable option over anything else. And those little three-pound blocks of wiggly grey matter are tough; they’ll have you marching to their orders faster than you can say “willpower”. It’s not their fault – they’re trying to keep you...

You Have Two Choices

It is harder to be positive. Even in “normal” situations, a negative thought is four to seven times more powerful than a positive one – and saying it out loud makes it ten times more powerful than that. So one bad thought can be up to seventy times more powerful than...

Life is always a special occasion

I said something at the end of last week’s pep talk about life always being a special occasion, and I nearly went off on a whole new tangent right then and there. I like the idea of taking each moment of life as something worth making the most of, because...

This Is Life

Alright, I’ve got some basic common sense coming at you today. I say common sense, but though this is all gonna sound obvious, it’s something we all seem to have a massive issue with remembering and accepting (that’s right, I’m calling you out). We’ve had a few pep talk weeks...