Stewart Dick

Decide to start

Growth is good

You can find inspiration in all sorts of places, including classic movie trilogies…

Tomorrow is apparently #BlueMonday. This is your reminder that it’s nonsense! There is no such thing - it was made up as a marketing ploy by a travel company to get people to buy holidays. Blue Monday is not a thing! You always have the ability to choose your attitude.

We can’t control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we react - how we set our sails. As the last line of this poem says: “’Tis the set of a soul that decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife”.

Do you do this? You should!!

As George Bernard Shaw said, "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." You get to choose who you want to be. You get to build yourself. You get to take action to make it a reality.

Be patient. Slow progress is still progress.

When working to change behaviour in the organisation, the measure of progress is seldom something you can touch, see or hear but certainly something you will feel

Great to see these posters at parents’ evening at my daughter’s school recently. As important for adults to remember as they are for kids!

Is it?

I’ve just read 4000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman. It’s a good read. At its core, it’s a simple message. We each get around 4,000 weeks. How will you spend them?

I don’t know who said this originally, though Joe Wicks did mention it on Dragons’ Den this year! If you’re going to miss the bus, miss it running. Work hard, take action, and if you do miss the bus this time be proud of the effort you put in. You’ll catch the next one! 🚌

“Take up space. Pitch it faster. Run harder. Put another plate on the bar. And never tone it down.” 🏉🏉🏉 📸 photo credit - Alex Ho / Isi Photos / via Getty Images

I saw this on a friend’s feed and it made me smile. But there’s an important message here too… Things will happen in life that you can’t control, but they’ll happen anyway. It’s up to you how you choose to react - try and find the humour and enjoy life wherever you can!

The more you avoid hard things, the less you can handle hard things. Be ready for life: Work out in the heat. Carry heavy things. Go for a run. Build back your resilience.

Try, just one more time…