The weekly perspective
One question to ask yourself
How much longer am I going to sit in this?
As I ranted to my boyfriend about a situation of mine last night, I found myself asking myself this exact question. Something I've been complaining about for a while that I have complete control over, yet have taken no action to change.
Journal on this - name the things you're not happy with. How many times have you complained or found yourself frustrated at them? Do you have control over them? What have you done to change them?
Something to consider
If I don't see it in how you spend your time, I don't believe it's important to you
Journal on this - what does this weeks time spent say about what's important to you? Why does it look this way? Yes there are some times in life where this is harder, maybe even impossible, but I'm talking your average week. If this is your average week ahead, consider these questions.
One thing I'd tell my younger self.
Stop taking yourself so seriously
As I dropped a mug in silence of the airport lounge and it smashed to smithereens across the floor yesterday, I found myself laughing along with the man next to me and welcoming him into my life (literally). Eight years ago when I started talking about disordered eating I remember thinking, my page must be serious, there can be no humour, disordered eating is heavy and hard and so many of us feel shame. But honestly, the moment I realised life could be heavy and joy filled, serious and funny, cringe and cool (ok never the latter for me), life got much easier. I stopped worrying about how I showed up and if I'd embarrass myself and started feeling infinitely more comfortable in every room.
One thing to try this week
Act. Without pathologising nor procrastinating
For this week only, allow yourself to notice when you fall into procrastination, or simply when you avoid taking action. We've learned to pathologise many of our actions and more so, overthink our unhelpful habits and explain them through our ever-continuing self-awareness. The latter can be magical, it's important to recognise why we do what we do, but often we allow that awareness to justify how we act, instead of empowering us to act in the face of it. Notice it, notice your power to act regardless.
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One more thing...
Please share your favourite stuff.
Thank you all for continuing to share your favourite Monday email quotes. I see them all. I know how much I love seeing impactful quotes from strangers, so it means a lot that you allow me to hopefully be that person for someone else. f there's something you really relate to or know someone who'd benefit from something in this email, please share it and pay it forward. Words are magical, and if I've learned anything from writing these emails to you for years, you never know when someone needs to hear the exact thing you've got to say.
