Crap, I’m A Perfectionist Honestly, I’ve had plenty of chances to read Kelly’s new book Practical Perfection in various stages of its drafts, but I never did. One big reason why. I assumed it didn’t apply to me. I am not a perfectionist. I have never used that word to describe […]
Self Development
I Am An Introverted Extrovert
As much as the world loves to classify things, I am a bit hesitant when things are polar opposites. I don’t like to stick people in boxes and I think it’s likely that most of us live on a kind of spectrum where it depends on our sleep, quality of food and company as to […]
Understanding Yourself vs Having Excuses
This is a topic that has always bugged me. Excuses. I hate it when people say “no excuses”. It usually comes out of the mouths of people who haven’t had any particularly large challenges in life and it just bugs the crap out of me. It’s a very salesy, “motivational” speaker type phrase that discounts […]
I Lied About Having No Goals For 2016
As much as I said I didn’t have goals for 2016, I may have lied. I do. I basically want to feel like I have achieved something more than survival, which is all the past few years have felt like to me. This is in more than one area of my life, though initially […]
My Biggest Strengths
There’s a certain amount of irony in today’s prompt for I Must Confess… I wanted to write from this morning but I’ve had a bit of a crappy day (bank issues, bad sinus pain, “mild” food poisoning). Which brings me to… My Biggest Strengths It’s hard to write when you feel a bit […]
(Re)Considering My Education
As you can see from all the times (here, here, here & here) that I’ve blogged about uni and studying, I love to learn and therefore I have a really hard time accepting that study hasn’t worked for me. I loved going to uni. Sure, it was stressful at times, but I love learning and […]
Stop Assuming That Women Have Low Self Confidence
Today I would like to talk about self confidence. Only I’m not here to inspire you. Nope. I’m here to complain. Specifically, I’m here to complain about something I’ve heard too often for a long time. “As women, I think we hold ourselves back.” “Us women have low self confidence because we don’t […]
What To Do On Days Your Resilience Is Low
The other week I had a long stint of terrible sleeps. This preceded the week of getting the flu, which preceded the week of sinus infection, which preceded the week of being sick of being sick. Ugh on the past month, seriously. Earlier in the year my GP had suggested sleeping tablets for me […]
Mini Mental Retreat
For the past month or so, as part of my attempt to do one thing at a time, I’ve paid a lot more concentration to my attention span than I normally would. What it has given me is clarity. One of the things I did was give myself permission to blog less if […]
Walk A Mile In My Shoes
Yesterday had highs and lows. I struggled early in the day with a situation that went against my values. I’d like to write about it but I don’t know if I can do so fairly, because it made cranky. And, as those situations often do, they kind of leave a bad feeling over the day. […]