When we focus on less, we allow ourselves time and space to focus and do things better. We realise that everything around us is generally noise that confuses us.
It can be quite distressing to relate every single aspect of your thinking to yourself. Terms like ‘I’ and ‘my’ can make situations more stressful, due to the stories they create for us.
There’s a little principle I learnt last summer, known as the stress-reducing TOP method; totally in my control, out of my control or partially in my control.
Improving your outlook on life will only lead to more things to feel happy about in the future. It will also take the pressure off you so you can be happy now.
Recovery takes time. You will have the attention span of a gnat. Nerves take a long time to heal. And you’ll start to question your life before and how you live
Sometimes our life plans can be so rigid that when things don’t go to plan we feel stagnant. We might end up down a path that was completely out of our choice.
When feeling lost, isolated or disconnected make a list of the past challenges you didn’t think you would overcome but did. You're more resilient than you think.
Life lessons learnt in February. You need less things than you think to be truly happy. You develop confidence and empathy when you explore different cultures.
Feeling a level of discomfort whenever you try anything new is simply part of the growth process. It's necessary to push yourself outside of your comfort zone.
Trust that you are resourceful. Your best is much better than you believe it is. You are not responsible for the thoughts of others and pain is never permanent.
Trust the path you're on because a new life doesn't have to mean the end of a goal you previously had, or the end of your possibility to be fulfilled and happy.
Writing a letter forced me to take the time to look back on everything being kinder to myself in the process and talking to myself as I would my best friend.
