What is your personal story? You know, how you came to be who you are? The things you tell yourself about you experiences. Have you ever really thought about it? I hadn’t but have been reflecting on my story over the past few weeks. Here are my thoughts on our personal stories and a bit of my own story.

What inspires you to push yourself beyond what you think is possible? Is it books, films or music like it is for me? I’ve been wanting to run and today I took all that inspiration and pushed myself to run. Not far, but further than I have before. What could you do if you tried to push beyond the limits of what you think is possible?

What started as a blog post about routine has become a post about uncertainty, funny that!

You can’t control the ocean. Sometimes you need to paddle out, and it can be hard, the waves hit you in the face and overwhelm you. But then sometimes you can catch an amazing wave and ride it back in towards the shore.

Why? Why did I think this? What’s the feeling behind this thought? See part of my mindset stuff is trying to acknowledge my thoughts and assess them – not be my thoughts and feelings, just observe them. So, what is this thought all about? And then I realised what it was. Shame.

Actually, I’m going to start with money and a bit of a check in on how things are going. As you may know I set myself two challenges at the start of the year of things not to buy: books and clothes. I had recognised that these were my go tos when I was feeling low and emotionally spending. I have a lot of clothes and a lot of books. Now, personally I believe you can never have too many books but I have such a backlog to read through that I don’t need any more right now. 

Let’s start with what is going well. I’m feeling less stressed about money. That is a big thing for me as it is quite often a key stressor for me. Particularly the lack of money for essential life stuff. But I got to the end of last month and could breathe a sigh of relief because I wasn’t worrying about stretching the pennies out to afford food.