


What you need to know about happiness if you actually want to be happy
In the not so distant past, whenever presented with the opportunity to make a wish I would close my eyes and, with belief akin to that of a very earnest five year old, say to myself…… “I just want to be happy.” Looking back on it now I realise...
How to truly live your purpose, even with a day job
So, after reading my previous posts about finding your purpose, you’ve decided that you want to be just like the man in the image above. Your true purpose in life is to be in the sunshine in your pants drinking beer from a hat but also feeling content in your...
LOST: anyone seen my purpose?
As I mentioned in my opening post for this month, purpose can be an elusive beast. Sometimes the more we want it, the more we search for it, the more difficult it becomes to find. The reality is that you don’t actually have to look very far to find purpose....
What ‘Purpose’ means to me
During some of the darker days of my experience of depression, I’d spend hours ruminating the question….‘What is my purpose?’. At that time, the enquiry went far deeper than what I should be doing for work. although that was a bother too. It...
6 top tips for harnessing your power within.
September at The Mental Movement (albeit this is technically being published in October) has been all about Awareness. I’ve already discussed how our experience of life can be improved by sharpening our internal senses, getting to know ourselves a bit better and...
A conscious life
This month’s theme at The Mental Movement is ‘Raising your awareness’ and this particular post is about how to live a more conscious life by being purposeful about the choices you make and opening your mind to other ways of both being and doing....
Raising your awareness
Last month I broached the topic of ‘inner voice’ and how, amongst other things, raising your awareness can help to tame that voice inside and use it to your advantage. This month I’m going to talk some more about ‘awareness’, ways in...
Making friends with your inner voice
So, in my last post, I introduced you to two of my inner voices…..Winston and Winnie. Now, in this post, I’d like to give you some tips to help you identify your own inner voice(s) if you haven’t done so already, some ways in which you can work in...