Coffee Thoughts 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
Coffee Thoughts 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
Coffee Thoughts 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
Coffee Thoughts 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
Coffee Thoughts 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
Coffee Thoughts 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, boost
Coffee Thoughts 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
Coffee Thoughts What's The Goal Of Life? I recently sat on a train on my journey home from the office and the sun was shining in my face through the window. I let off a slight smirk when I realised that this was the first time I could actually see the sun when travelling home after work,
Coffee Thoughts If You Don’t Want To Grow, Please Don't Do Anything Hard. I’m a big fan of the saying “How you do the small things is how you do the big things”. It explains that nothing is ever truly “small” enough that it grants you permission to slack off, and that if you don’t stay consistent with who you want
Coffee Thoughts Improving Is The Only Option Many people like to roll their eyes at someone who delves into a "Self-improvement" journey, as though it were a cringeworthy pursuit. And although it’s often taken too far, with the likes of ridiculous morning routines, it’s still, at least to me, non-negotiable. I don’t
Coffee Thoughts How To Find Your Thing - Ladder Against The Right Wall Two things have happened in my life recently, the first being finally feeling as though I’m headed in a direction that feels right, and thoughts of whether I’m chasing the wrong things have disappeared. The second is re-reading a book called “Rewire Your Mindset” By Brian Keane, where
Coffee Thoughts There’s Just Too Much Content When I started looking for ways to improve, it became very apparent to me extremely quickly just how much information there is out there today. There is a guru for everything, with their own set list of reasons and evidence as to why their things is the best. There’s