How a Simple Reframe Can Transform a Stressy Work Problem
Over the last months I’ve hit upon what feels like a useful question, and thought I’d share it with you here.
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I love this. And these words sum it all up for me: "Kindness isn't conditional - do something and secretly expect that it'll come boomeranging back. It often happens that way anyway. But the gettin...
Thanks for taking the time to read it, Suzy! xx
"Letting go and letting God" is exactly it, Jon. It's amazing how our small ego thinks that it has the power to do all the heavy lifting, and how when we see the lie in that and allow the bigger en...
I love the idea of empowered dressing, Mandy. I've been giving some thought myself to what "power" really means to me and, while at one point in life I thought it was all about what went on outside...
Exactly, Suzy. So often we forget that we have that choice and are not in fact just victims of our circumstances!
I love the idea of an inner stylist, Mandy. Right now my inner stylist is encouraging me to wear a bohemian long dress in my quite conservative neck of the woods and to pot with the strange looks I...
Thanks, Charles. Congratulations on creating your business!
And, yes, it is a journey. Part of the challenge of answering whatever call to action that the "I want to quit" feeling provokes is b...