Originally published on Kiki and Tea, May 21st, 2015 Have you ever had to recognise your thought patterns to weed out unhelpful ones? I have. And it wasn’t easy. One of the original taglines for my blog was “a journey towards positive thinking and weight loss”. In fact, my first posts were just […]
Self Development
It’s Good Enough For Me Right Now
I’m struggling to define what I want out of my career. And where my career even is. I’ve written before about how I miss being a subject matter expert. I have days when I wish for a job that will challenge me again. It makes me feel, on the surface, ungrateful for my job […]
Finding The Comfort Zone Sweet Spot
There are a million gazillion images on the internet about comfort zones and getting outside of them. After all, that’s where the magic happens, right? Finding The Comfort Zone Sweet Spot To a certain degree, I think the catch-phrase worthy phrases are true. Some things do get a better outcome if you get […]
Boredom Isn’t Glamorous
“They” say we’re too connected these days. Too scheduled. Too busy. Downtime doesn’t exist. It’s faux pas to say you did nothing on the weekend. Boredom Isn’t Glamorous I took a 6 day weekend over the Easter long weekend. I had all the ideas about all the things I could have done. […]
One Thing I Wish I Could Teach You
I saw this on Twitter and as someone who struggles to a) manage shiny object syndrome and b) tell you what I want (what I really really want, zigazig ah) …this was a great, simple question. If you can’t read it, the question a teacher asked was: “If I let you teach my students […]
When You Have No Answers
In a goal oriented world, where do you find your place if you don’t have answers yet? That is who I want to find. That is who I think would get the most out of reading this blog. Because we don’t have just one answer. No one thing clicks life into place. Some […]
Finding An Evening Ritual
One of the strangest things about being tonsil free is feeling good. It’s not bad to feel good (can I get a duh) but tonsils made me crappy for such a long time that I am still not adjusted to being “normal”. January was a strange month for me. I was back at work but […]
Easing Into 2018
I haven’t been up to much. I was going to blog about my Christmas Staycation. But I didn’t. Some things happened. Gutting things. Some good things happened. I had a funny day out on Christmas Day at the beach on my own which ended up in a beach tent collapsing on me. I wish I […]
The Three Main Types Of Apologies (And What You’re Really Saying)
The other week, I was having a discussion with a friend about apologies. More specifically, “apologies”. Aka fake ones. Aka “sorry YOU were offended” types. I said that I would rather people didn’t fake being sorry as that is more … painful, patronising… you choose the adjective that suits! The Three Main Types Of […]
Disillusionment Can Be A Good Thing
Granted I’ve had some tiring weeks of personal stuff recently, but even without that, I had been looking for a word to describe how I felt. And I finally came across it last week. Disillusionment. That is how I feel. Disillusioned towards a lot of things. Some parts of blogging & online life included. I had […]