I’ve always had this feeling that I’ve never gone quite deep enough with anything to consider myself skilled at it. The term ‘mastery’ floats around in education and self-development circles. It simply means proficiency, but all too often I read it in terms of superiority or domination and for that reason I don’t like it … Continue reading Many holes, no water: the pursuit of mastery
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The Abundance Mindset Through the Medium of Toilet Roll
I’ve been reading a lot about the mindset of abundance, the idea that there’s enough in the world for everybody. Imagine a world where we truly believed this, it would remove many of our limiting beliefs about what we could achieve and would mean we wouldn't hold so tightly to what we already had. It’s … Continue reading The Abundance Mindset Through the Medium of Toilet Roll
Beating the Overwhelm with Turtle Steps
I'm having one of those days. I'm wrung out, everything feels like too much trouble and there's a low level anger bubbling resentfully in the background. My creative muse has fled and I don't feel like I could string a rhyme together if someone paid me (they won't). Inclement weather has invaded my brain and … Continue reading Beating the Overwhelm with Turtle Steps
Best Laid Plans
Do you ever have those days that from the start just seem askew? You wake up late, you’ve lost your keys, can only find one shoe? It’s like the world conspired against you, to really piss you off As you’re about to curse the universe, you come down with a cough What about those days, … Continue reading Best Laid Plans
Work, Worth and the Value of the Ordinary
Two blog posts in two days, unheard of for me, but there’s something on my mind and I can’t let it go. Today I heard a conversation. A woman was contrasting her job (serving food), with that of her husband’s (he was a headmaster). She said that out of the two of them, he went … Continue reading Work, Worth and the Value of the Ordinary
Journaling for my future self
Journaling can be very therapeutic, but it turns out it’s even more useful when you have a shocking memory. I found an old paper and pen journal which my daughter bought me a couple of years ago. I’d almost entirely forgotten about it, but reading back through the entries has been eye opening. Up until … Continue reading Journaling for my future self
Out With The Old Ways: What I’m Leaving Behind After Lockdown
The Pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have highlighted what truly matters to us most, as well as what really doesn’t. Here’s a list of a few things I’m determined to live without, as life begins to return to some sort of normality. 1). A regular hairdresser. I used to spend a small fortune every four to … Continue reading Out With The Old Ways: What I’m Leaving Behind After Lockdown
Does staying in your comfort zone stifle growth and creativity?
More on getting comfortable with being uncomfortable... In our first lockdown here in the UK there was a surge of creativity. Hilarious memes and videos, new ways of working, new ways of schooling, new ways of living together. My household was no different. I’d never considered myself to be creative, it was a nice idea … Continue reading Does staying in your comfort zone stifle growth and creativity?
My Meditation Journey
Do you believe that everything you need in life will come to you at the right time? Even if it doesn’t always feel that way? I began my meditation journey when I was six years old. My parents have practiced Transcendental Meditation (TM) for over forty years, long before meditation was cool and certainly before … Continue reading My Meditation Journey
Rae Cod’s Writing 