Loneliness sucks. I think the time has come to start talking about this epidemic that’s sweeping our cities. Since the industrial revolution loneliness has been on the rise worldwide and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. It’s hard to come out and admit that one is lonely. The very act of doing it creates …
For me, there are different movies for different moods. A movie can make you feel like an entirely different person and so on occasion if I’m about to go to a party and I don’t feel quite in the mood I have a selection of movies I watch to get me ready for the party. …
Loneliness sucks. I think the time has come to start talking about this epidemic that’s sweeping our cities. Since the industrial revolution loneliness has been on the rise worldwide and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. It’s hard to come out and admit that one is lonely. The very act of doing it creates …
I think, you know, it’s hard to know which decision to make without an understanding of where you’re going. We need to follow a path of some kind, a trail, a road that’s taking us somewhere. There’s just too much to process otherwise, right? Surely you can’t undertake any task without having an aim. Importantly, …
I started meditating in 2015. I had just moved from Australia to the U.K. at the age of 18 years old and knew nobody. I was living in a flat with a cousin that I didn’t know particularly well at the time and I didn’t really have any money to speak of. My life was …
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. “ – From: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. We all want to live interesting lives but some of us, perhaps a lot of us, feel that we are unable to …
What is confidence? It’s a sort of emotion and sort of a state of being. It’s something very primal that can be seen in all facets of life and in many different animals and insects. You could even describe some plant life as being more confident than others. To understand confidence we must take a …
How do we judge success? What series of metrics do you use to tell whether or not you’ve won? How do you know you’ve made it? If you were playing a game of football it’s very easy to know whether or not you’ve won the game. It’s the team who’s scored the most goals in …
I met someone recently, let’s call him Tod, who, over lunch, told me that he tries to get out of his comfort zone twice every day. Everyone at the table scoffed at that statement.“It’s true!” He said. So I asked him what he’d done today that got him out of his comfort zone and he …
We’d all like to live meaningful lives. Lives where we feel valued for the things we do as well as making a positive impact on the society around us. It’s not, however, always easy to achieve this. Life is notoriously unbalanced and we all must “bear the whips and scorns of time” (Hamlet). Throughout history, …
