Truth Bomb Tuesday: I couldn’t believe that life was actually like this… Freedom is painful. I know we talk about freedom as if it’s the greatest thing God ever invented. Apart from love is the only thing worth dying for. Just ask Mel Gibson. But it’s actually painful. It’s kind of a pain in the […]
T-Bomb: The difference between day jobs and slavery
Truth Bomb Tuesday: You were never meant to fit everything in. Why do the weekends feel so short? Even the long ones. Three days never feels like enough. But they feel short because they are short. It’s been a fair while since I had to work a 9-5 job, but I just don’t know how […]
T-Bomb: How to escape the limits of your fear
Truth Bomb Tuesday: You don’t have to let your fears define you Our fears shape our lives. They determine what we feel we are capable of, and that determines what we can achieve and experience. So I went on a bit of a research mission the other day, trying to understand how we can confront […]
T-Bomb: How generosity changes your brain
Truth Bomb Tuesday: If you don’t practice generosity, life starts to box you in. Generosity has to be a central practice. You need to make it a central discipline of your life. If we become selfless – actually, hold up. I don’t really like the term ‘selfless’. We often use it to describe the tendency […]
T-Bomb: Would you rather die or look stupid?
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Is a need to belong keeping you poor? There was a fascinating psychological study I was reading about recently where a participant was put in a waiting room with a bunch of people. All the other people were actors, but the participant didn’t know that. After a little while of hanging out […]
T-Bomb: How to get on top of overwhelm
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Can we all just stop pretending for a minute? Overwhelmed? Confused? That’s ok. No really. It’s ok. It’s totally normal. If you told me that you had a complete grip on things – that you had a good working understanding of how the world works – I’d think you were kidding. At […]
T-Bomb: How op shops ended up drowning in stuff
Truth Bomb Tuesday: We all want the same thing, and the op shops can’t cope. All the op shops are full. Have you noticed this? It’s not just me is it? Quite a few around my way have stopped taking donations all together. They’ve just got too much stuff. And it’s not that they’re not […]
T-Bomb: Why ‘retreat and soothe’ never works
Truth Bomb Tuesday: If you give into tantrums, it will never end Sometimes people just won’t get with the program. Actually, most times they won’t. People are like that. But often the people you need to support you most – the ones you’re relying on to make the program happen – they refuse to get […]
T-Bomb: Why I have zero-tolerance for this
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Many people do this, but I’m not having it. Why do we engage in defeatist self-talk? There are lots of types of negative self-talk? There’s criticism, shaming, ridiculing… so many ways to hate on ourselves. It’s astounding really. But today I just wanted to look at defeatist self-talk. This is something I […]
T-Bomb: Motivation for tired dogs
Truth Bomb Tuesday: It’s kind of obvious when you think about it So the science of motivation is shifting. It’s a very interesting time to be alive. There’s so much going on. It’s wild. Take AI for example. Nuts. But psychology is also offering up lots of gems at the moment too. And when I […]