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when do you clock out?

I visited The Historic Dockyard Chatham recently and came across this beautiful old clocking-in clock. How far we are now in many of our jobs from this concept of clocking out and leaving our work behind for the day! With our boundaries well and truly blurred between work and rest, it is easy to let …
blue monday
goals or dreams?

January: apparently this is the time of year to set our goals and intentions for the next 12 months. But it’s cold, dark and grey outside, not really conducive to thinking big and planning strategically! So here’s an alternative: let’s simply plant some dream seeds. Let’s take away the pressure that can clutter up our …
anything broken?

Last Saturday, I attended our local Repair CafĂ© for the first time, on the jewellery fixing stall. After a good while in the drawer, it was fun to get the tools out again! Looking around, do you have anything that needs fixing? A broken printer, an old bicycle, a relationship maybe? This stuff might not …
who remembers the space invaders?
where did our ambitions go?

When we’re in the hamster wheel, our lives can feel somewhat restricted. We’re exhausted, yet don’t feel like we’re actually moving towards anything. We keep going but are stuck in the same place. Our head is full of the small stuff that needs our attention, and we have no headspace to think about the bigger …
hear that?
nostalgia or gold?

At the weekend, I visited the Turner Contemporary and came across this piece by Ellen Harvey, which I loved! “Harvey is interested in the value judgements we make about these two frames, the powerful draw of nostalgia, and how our “memories can often be artificially positive or gilded” “. So often we are pulled into …
what’s weighing you down?

When we think about having too much clutter, we think of the obvious: the stuff in the spare room or the garage, the overflowing bookshelves or wardrobes… But we have a whole inner world of clutter too that can get in our way: our negative talk, our unhelpful beliefs, some tricky emotions. Noticing all the …