When you’re facing negative situations in life, how do you handle it? 🤔 Do you spend your time and energy complaining about the way things are? Do you blame other people? 😤 Do you put it in the basket of “nothing will ever work out for me”? Or do you use it as an indication that you’re not where you want to be, and do something about it? If you’re stuck in negative…
We all know the old cliché phrase, “the grass is greener on the other side” – but most of us also know that in reality it isn’t true. This phrase originally came from an American song written in 1924 called “the grass is always greener in the other fellow’s yard” by Raymond B. Egan and Richard A. Whiting, and the chorus goes a little something like this: The grass is always greener In the other fellow’s…
Most of us get to a point where we’re confronted with that awful moment of realisation that we’ve ended up in a bad spot. 😵💫 That moment where you think ohhhhh shit I need to leave this job/relationship/career/home/country or whatever it is. Or maybe you realise you need to stop thinking or behaving in a certain way, or that the thing you’ve been blamed for IS actually your fault. 🤯 Maybe you find yourself pretending…
I was listening to a podcast interview the other day where Gretchen Rubin from The Happiness Project was talking about asking a certain question when you’re unsure about taking a certain action. She gave the example of when she was thinking about getting a dog. Her kids really wanted one, but she was thinking about the extra responsibilities that go along with it and how it would make it more hassle to travel as she’d have to…
We tend to care less about the future version of ourselves than we do about our present day selves.One donut today won’t hurt!! Will it?If one donut today becomes a sugary treat every day, that can build up over time to become a problem for our future selves. It’s the same with anything we put off or don’t do because we can’t be bothered/aren’t motivated enough to make the change today. Many of us only make a change when the pain of…