Tag: mental health
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Six Questions for Success Part 6/6: The Last Question
I recently celebrated my 38th birthday. A couple of days beforehand, I had one evening where for around two hours I had a crushing low mood and a sense that I was rapidly getting old with not that much to show for it. The feeling was triggered by a song that I heard that reminded…
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Six Questions for Success: Part 5/6
Should you share your goal ideas? Let’s think on this a sec, before I share with you question number five. So there you are, with a goal in mind, maybe something innovative or unique, maybe something a bit wild. Maybe something really boring. Everyone is different. You don’t mind thinking about it throughout the day,…
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Six Questions for Success: Part 4/6 – Establish a framework for research
The dawn of a new idea or goal. Initially exciting but then you realise just how much you don’t know. You realise the massive amount of work to make it happen. Some of that is going to need focus and method. For some, I guess it means taking a little longer to find something out…
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Six Questions for Success Part 3: What makes a job worth doing?
”If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.” This was the quote, printed in large font on a poster, in the class I used to study cookery in as a teenager. Every time I cooked anything (well, attempted to), there it was, staring back at me, hinting that I could probably do…
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Week 17: The idea of ‘The Journey’
What is a journey? Why are they important? What do they teach us? I’ll let a recent journey give insight into some potential answers. The dictionary claims a ‘journey’ to be ‘an act of travelling from one place to another’ while intriguingly the entry for ‘journeyman’ (let’s also include ‘journeywoman’) is ‘a skilled worker who…
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Weeks 12, 13 and 14: Christmas Highs, New Year Lows, and how to use goals to recover your physical and mental health.
I’ve been learning how to walk again. This is a lengthy post about my recovery from a lower back/spine problem. I’ve added tips about how I manage recovery mentally and physically. The Christmas and New Year period were for me emotionally tough (first without my mother who passed last year), then very physically challenging. I…
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