It’s a question that can turn up in all sorts of places. Someone else seems to have more confidence, more energy, more freedom. Their business looks like it’s flowing, their relationships look happy, their life somehow seems to require less effort than yours. And before you know it, you’re looking […]
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You’ve probably seen the video. The one where you’re asked to watch a group of basketball players and count how many times the team wearing white passes the ball. If you haven’t, I’ll pop the link here. If you want to watch it before I spoil the result, I’ll wait. […]
Last week I wrote a post musing about the questions we secretly ask ourselves. I said it might become a series. It seems there are at least two of them, so apparently we’re calling it a series now. 😂 Last week’s question was Am I happy? Today, it’s Do I […]
On questioning a life that looks perfectly fine from the outside. There’s a particular kind of unsettling that doesn’t come from anything going wrong. It’s the feeling that can arrive when a life looks entirely fine from the outside — every box ticked, everything holding together — and yet something […]
Before phones could tell us what the traffic was doing, we had TomTom. And if you’re old enough to remember ignoring it – taking a different turning just to see how insistent it would get – you might recognise the bigger pattern too. There’s a difference between choosing a different route and losing touch with the thing that was quietly guiding us in the first place.
The other day I spotted something in the garden that I’d never seen before. It was feeding from a bush covered in flowers that insects seem to love. Now, I’m no expert when it comes to wildlife. I did have one of those Find 50 Butterflies books when I was […]
Maybe we ask someone else within earshot. Maybe we ask no human at all and turn to AI. Or maybe they’re the sort of questions we find ourselves searching for answers to in the middle of the night, when everything seems more important than it did during the day. You […]
Thursday started like most days do. I had a rough idea of how I thought it would unfold. As you’ve probably guessed, my next line isn’t going to be, “And everything followed the plan in my head perfectly!” I’m not sure that would make for a particularly interesting post. What […]
One thing I’ve noticed over the years is how much time we can spend trying to decide whether something is right for us. We imagine how it might go. We wonder whether it will be worth it. We try to predict how we’ll feel afterwards. Sometimes we end up stuck, […]
And just like that, it’s day 7 of what started as simply writing a daily post for seven days to gently get some momentum going, and turned into a week-long experiment in gentle momentum. When the idea struck, or perhaps a better description would be sauntered into view rather than […]