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Are Your Goals Worth the Sacrifice?

When setting big goals, one of the most important things you must do is consider what it takes to achieve them. When you’re hungry and pizza is your favourite food, you’ll be happy driving 20 minutes to go and collect it. But what if that drive becomes 2

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Outgrowing Your Goals - Pivoting vs Quitting

SPONSORED Coffee Thoughts are short reflections on life direction, self-improvement, growth, and loosely formed general ideas that are designed to make you think. Subscribe and receive a new one every Saturday, along with a blog every Wednesday! Subscribe So you’ve decided to change your life. You’ve had

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Becoming Stoic - Bridging the Gap Between Emotion and Logic

SPONSORED Coffee Thoughts are short reflections on life direction, self-improvement, growth, and loosely formed general ideas that are designed to make you think. Subscribe and receive a new one every Saturday, along with a blog every Wednesday! Subscribe A lot of people think stoicism is unhealthy, they hear “controlling

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The Unfair Battle Between You and Your Future Self

SPONSORED Coffee Thoughts are short reflections on life direction, self-improvement, growth, and loosely formed general ideas that are designed to make you think. Subscribe and receive a new one every Saturday, along with a blog every Wednesday! Subscribe The moment you decide to work toward a goal, you start

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Can You Be Ambitious and Grateful at the Same Time?

SPONSORED Coffee Thoughts are short reflections on life direction, self-improvement, growth, and loosely formed general ideas that are designed to make you think. Subscribe and receive a new one every Saturday, along with a blog every Wednesday! Subscribe I would never discourage anyone from wanting something more. More money,

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How to Be More Creative Without Sacrificing Your Goals

SPONSORED Coffee Thoughts are short reflections on life direction, self-improvement, growth, and loosely formed general ideas that are designed to make you think. Subscribe and receive a new one every Saturday, along with a blog every Wednesday! Subscribe What’s the point of being creative? It’s about coming

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What If You Choose The Wrong Goal?

SPONSORED Coffee Thoughts are short reflections on life direction, self-improvement, growth, and loosely formed general ideas that are designed to make you think. Subscribe and receive a new one every Saturday, along with a blog every Wednesday! Subscribee People get caught up deciding what goal to pursue, they often

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There's Nothing Romantic About Undiscovered Potential

Hypotheticals are exciting, they’re unknown outcomes with infinite possibilities. But when it comes to your own potential, there’s nothing sexy or exciting about wondering what you could or couldn’t do. And yet, a lot of people get stuck in this phase of constantly fantasising about who they

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The Loneliness Of Serious Ambition

The bigger your goal, the harder it is to “fit in”. When no one can relate to what you’re doing, when you’re not aware of a single person who’s trekking the same path, and when you start lying to avoid the confusion on their face and the

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Sunday Sacries: A Sign That Something Isn’t Quite Right

Sundays, a day that is commonly known for being the quiet day, the day of rest, the day of peace. For me, Sundays used to be one of the worst days of the week. From the moment I woke up until the moment I fell asleep, I wasn’t quite

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The Importance Of Intrinsic Interest

Most of the time, when I sit down to write, it involves something I have been thinking about or going through that week, or at most the last couple of weeks. Sometimes, though, the time comes when the pen needs to hit paper, and there’s nothing there. No ideas,

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Meditation: A Reminder For The Busy-Minded

I’ve caught myself re-learning the same lesson over and over again over the past few years, and I’m currently going through that process of learning it again now. Not too long ago I wrote about sitting on the train and feeling the sun on my face, enjoying

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Can People Really Change?

We don’t get to choose our parents. We don’t get to decide where we’re born. We don’t get to decide how we’re brought up. So much of who we are is random. By the time we’re conscious enough to understand ourselves, we’re already

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Why Wanting It More Isn't The Answer

How badly you want something is often seen as an indicator of how likely you might be to succeed. It’s quite hard to argue against the fact that wanting something more will result in you doing more of what’s required to get it. It could even be said

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The Price Of Wanting More: Why Ambition Means Standing Out

Being exceptional means exactly what it says: being an exception. Chasing goals and achieving them is great. You become wealthier, more fulfilled, fitter, happier, and, overall, a better version of yourself. But there’s a price to pay. When you commit to chasing your dreams, you aggravate a lot of

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You’re In Your Own Way - Stop Thinking And Keep Going

Most of the problems we face during the pursuit of a goal come from our tendency to overthink. This is assuming we even get to the point of action, as thinking alone can be enough to stop us from taking action to begin with. We get caught up in lists

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The Adulthood Trap - Why Life Feels Faster As You Get Older

“Time goes by so quickly” Does it? Or you were just never there to begin with?  Most of the time, we’re either dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, and before you know it, the present becomes the past. If you’re never where your feet are,

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Stop Watching Motivation Content

I’ve mentioned many times that discipline is the better and more reliable alternative to motivation, and although motivation is great when available, it shouldn’t be relied on.  But where does that leave seeking and receiving motivation from external sources like films and videos on social media? If it’

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Stop Breaking Your Own Promises

If you had a friend, and this friend always said they were going to achieve x, y, and z, but never even gave it a real go, or every time there was a gathering or event that they were invited to they turned up late, how much would you believe

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Why Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness

Have you ever heard of the old saying, “Money won’t make you happy”? Well, as cliché as it is, it’s the truth. Yes, it can alleviate a lot of pain and suffering. It can pay for healthcare, move you to a safer location, and remove a lot of

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Prospective Hindsight - Making The Most Of Suffering

This is a term that I came up with at the back end of last year when going through something unpleasant, and it’s something that current events have brought me back to. Prospective - expected or expecting to be the specified thing in the future. Hindsight-  understanding of a situation

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The Flow State - How To Get More By Doing Less

Imagine a world where you spend less time doing something, but get more out of it. Well, that world exists, and it’s called the flow state. As far as superpowers go, the flow state is probably the closest thing that any of us are ever going to be able

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The Courage To Be Disliked

“Everything you want is on the other side of cringe”. Coming from the UK, it’s standard to mock, judge and otherwise take the piss out of others who try to do something with their lives. Crabs in a bucket, as it were. If you don’t already know, put

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Be Careful What You Microdose - This Isn’t About Drugs

Microdosing is “the action or practice of taking or administering very small amounts of a drug in order to test or benefit from its physiological action while minimizing undesirable side effects.” Mostly used with psychedelics like LSD or psilocybin (magic mushrooms) to get the lower-level positive effects like focus,

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Why Procrastination is Worse Than You Think

We all procrastinate, we all delay and put off tasks we can’t be bothered to do. But what if procrastinating was causing more damage than simply wasting time? I was thinking about snoozing your alarm, and how on the surface it may look harmless, however, it can actually be