A New Way to Set New Year Resolutions
I'm not setting new year resolutions this year or wasting time mapping out huge goals. I have different strategy instead.
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A Year’s Worth of Pep Talks (from 2021)
In need of a pep talk? Here's an entire year's worth! All of 2021's pep talk themes to help you in planning your new year goals.
Take the pressure off – you’re already enough
December can be fraught with holiday pressure. Forget the stress this year though, because you're perfect enough already, and this is why.
Screw the End Goal – a sort of NaNoWriMo Pep Talk
The end goal is important – that's what gets you started. But it doesn't actually matter, and here's why (it's all about starting)…
Why You’ll Never Be An Overnight Success
The dream: be an overnight success, right? But an overnight success is just someone you didn't know yesterday – they're built on hard work.
I Miss BookTube Now I’m All Grown Up
I spent my teenage years well entrenched in the culture of BookTube (don’t come at me for how young that might make me sound). If you’re unfamiliar with it, BookTube is a community on YouTube exclusively about books. People discuss books they’ve read, books they want to read, books that...
One Day, You’ll Be Dead – Pep Talk (August 2021)
Every month I write a pep talk to (hopefully) inspire, motivate, or pick you up if you’re feeling down. Think of it as both nurturing encouragement and your ‘kick up the butt’ to get going on your goals or dreams (or just help you feel good). One day, you’ll be...
The Power of WuWei – July Round Up
Have you ever heard of the early Daoism term WuWei? Recently, I’ve been leaning into the idea of giving my brain space to think. Of experiencing life, rather than rushing through it, to see what it can show me. Normally, I’m trying to go a million miles an hour, fitting...
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...
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...