Creating Confidence: Be the Expert

Confidence is something that many of us struggle with; it's something I have struggled with all my life. Today, I'd like to tell you one of the ways I help myself to be confident in a situation I'd normally suffer in. Recently, I've took up a role within my workplace as a Coach. As part …

Making Fear an Opportunity

Closing a door, opens a window. Being afraid, creates an opportunity. I've written before about the Laziness of Fear; in which, I discuss how sometimes when I'm being 'lazy', it's actually that I'm scared. Now, I'd like to address how fear presents an opportunity for us. A few weeks ago, I'd describe my working world …

Trusting Ourselves and Our Audience

I want to talk about something called trust. Not the usual kind though, I want to talk about trusting ourselves, our content, and our audience. Trust is often hard to come by as many of us deal with instances in our lives where trust can and does become an issue. Perhaps we're let down one …

Self-Telling Stories: WiP Wednesday #4

My story is getting longer. Obviously you can tell that from the word count. It’s climbed to 12,000 now. Compared to last weeks WiP Wednesday this means I’m setting a trend of 4000 words a week. It’s not as much as I would like, but hopefully when I move house and finally have my dedicated …

Those “Perfect” Highlight Reels

Did you know that, when you look at a portfolio for an artist, you’re looking at their best work? It’s a shocking revelation, I know. I’ll let you sit down and take it in. Did you know that, when you read a book you’ve bought, whether from highstreet or Amazon, you’re reading a fully edited, …

100 Followers! A Friday Feeling.

So… Something magical has happened. After finally kicking myself up the ass to take my blog seriously – as a means to, not only discipline myself to write, but to promote my writing as well – I’ve hit 100 Followers. I’ve been blogging semi-regularly since Mid-May, increasing the frequency of my posts as the months …

Kicking the Perfection Addiction

Perfection does not exist. I’ve long believed that the term Perfection is a superlative term used to describe it’s opposite. “This isn’t perfect” “This could be perfect, but...” Yet, despite believing it doesn’t truly exist, despite never in a million years identifying as a perfectionist, I found myself continually holding myself to the standards it …

My Lens: Part 2 – A Happier Perspective

Are you a positive or a negative thinker? Our mindsets and thought processes shape the world around us much more than many people realise. When you're angry and annoyed, little things can seem more infuriating. When you're already sad, little things seem more upsetting. So what about when you're happy? Last week I wrote about …

My Lens: Part 1 – Seeing the World in Pictures and Words

Do you ever find that when you're doing something so much, or so focused on one thing, that you end up seeing the world through a certain lens? As someone who plays a lot of video games, I've noted this since I was little... I remember lying in bed at silly o'clock, after sneaking some game time after …

Confidence

It has something to do with confidence; and more to do with my lack of it. Pretty much everything in my life boils down to me not having much, if any, confidence. I think I've finally worked out the reason I'm not writing so much and it's due to the fact I don't want to …