Personal growth
Choose a book for the question you are living with
If fear keeps taking up space in your day, what would reading about courage bring into the conversation? That is how I like to choose a…
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Personal growth
A promise kept. A question asked. Something you finally begin. I write about personal growth through choices you can recognise in an ordinary day. Start with self-respect and the promises you keep or turning an intention into a next step.
When the next step feels difficult, explore acting while you are still afraid. When you need another perspective, try choosing a book for the question you are living with.
Personal growth
Take the next challenge seriously without making it your whole identity
Sometimes I picture life as a game of hide-and-seek. The image helps me approach a challenge with curiosity. I can take the next move seriously without…
Personal growth
Be your own biggest fan without refusing feedback
If you are waiting for someone to become your biggest fan, start closer to home. Stand behind your own work. Then stay open enough to make…
Personal growth
Being afraid does not have to make the decision for you
I am afraid. And now? I do not want that feeling to make every decision for me. Sometimes the next step is small enough to take…
Personal growth
Choose the relationship you want with social media
I spent four years away from most social platforms. I kept LinkedIn for hiring and investors. When I returned, I wanted connection and a place to…
Personal growth
Turn an intention into a next step
“I want to.” Good. What will you do next? I want my intentions to become something I can point to at the end of the day.
Personal growth
Designed to win – programmed to fail.
Changing habitual patterns is the purpose of the repeated reminder below. I want to connect what I know with what I do, and notice…
Personal growth
The croissant habit: what I would keep—and correct—in my essay
Revisiting my 2023 croissant essay: a useful question about routines, without unsupported fasting claims or judging someone’s worth by breakfast.
Personal growth
Self-respect is where I start
I have asked myself for years who I am becoming. The answer has changed as I have changed. The more useful question now is…
Personal growth
“You are not the master, mind”: the reminder I use in meditation
The phrase I wrote down in November 2022, how I used it during meditation, and why an empty search result cannot prove who first said something.