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When I work on projects, I want to look at myself in the mirror and say confidently, “I’ve started so I’ll finish”. How can I get better at finishing?
Resilient, confident, organised: if you really understand it, you can get better at it.
For everything in life that we find easy, we will know, and be baffled by, someone who struggles with it. For every thing we are rubbish at, we know someone who does it effortlessly. On both sides of that relationship, it can be hugely frustrating. Especially so if people need or want to change, but…
How do we know what we want?
How is it possible to be a functioning adult, finding yourself faced with options in life and not know how you feel about them? Sometimes the big decisions are easy, and we leap into them with great certainty and confidence. What about those other times, though, where we feel torn, conflicted and unsure? I’m currently…
I am broccoli, and that’s fine with me.
I’m teaching myself how to be more comfortable with the way other people see me. And I’m realising it doesn’t matter that not everyone likes me.
Tiny Worlds: helping kids fall in love with nature
We’re lucky enough to live in a truly beautiful country, with ready access to wild spaces with all their mental health-restoring brilliance. Of course our children are forever nagging at us to take them on long walks in the fresh air. Or not. The shiny lure of screens and a reluctance to deal with sunscreen,…
Is ‘learning how to do new things’ a valid hobby? Or an essential life skill…?
I was asked once, at the start of a job interview, to “tell us about who you are outside of work”. Eek. Among other upbeat and trustworthy sounding waffle, I said that I like learning how to do new things. I noticed that got a slightly puzzled look from the interviewer. This really is a…