If you ever feel like you’ve got a goal you want to reach, a place you want to be, a life you want to cultivate, but achieving it is like walking around in the dark and stabbing at things in the optimistic expectation of finding that exact thing that’s going to help you get there, then join the club. We haven’t got a clue but in this episode we’re discussing the one thing we do know a bit about that might make a big difference in, if not how quickly and successfully we reach our goals, at least how good we feel about continuing not to reach them: namely, ourselves.
DO YOU HAVE AN EXAMPLE?
Talking further about our own processes and how we strategise our knowledge in order to create a more productive work day, we mostly end up talking about our obsession with food, tea, books, overthinking and feeling slangry.
DOES ALL THAT KNOWLEDGE HELP?
Although we have a lot of strategies in place to help us be our best selves, even strategies for when our strategies aren’t working (did we mention overthinking?), a lot of the time we fail to follow our own good advice. However, we may not be perfect but knowing ourselves, accepting our limitations, has been enormously helpful in making it easier to fail well and fail good.
WHAT DO WE RECOMMEND?
Each week we finish by recommending something we think is brilliant that is doing the good fail. Today we bring you:
Insight Timer
A free meditation app for your phone with a great bookmark function.
Yogi Tea
A brand of herbal teas with some truly delicious blends, with a little piece of wisdom on every tea tag.
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