Give a F**k

there are times when being a sensitive, caring human being sucks.

As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel.’

We can use what we don’t want to show us what we do want.

We can use what we don’t want to show us what we do want.

When you slow down, regardless of the number of things you have to do, you tell yourself, ‘I want to enjoy life,’ That life is important and you are important. If you only had one slice of a delicious dessert, you would savour it, taking each bite slowly and deliberately and with relish. Why wouldn’t you do the same with life? Cramming your life with piles of nonsense just makes it feel shorter.

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This life is harsh enough without you turning on your own sweet self, too.

Sometimes, it doesn’t feel like you’re moving at all, which can be frustrating if, like me, you love seeing progress.

Life feels more like a game of snakes and ladders: sometimes you roll the dice and move forward steadily; at other times, you roll a few ladders and breakthroughs happen rapidly.

Some days I wake up and feel so bad I think, ‘Wow, it’s going to be pretty easy to beat myself up today’. On those days, I make a vow – I say I won’t tell myself a single bad thing about myself. It’s surprisingly difficult. By the way, this doesn’t mean being completely unself-conscious or, to use a well-worn phrase, ‘blowing smoke up your arse’; it means committing to reframing situations in a way that serves you and whatever you’re trying to do better.