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Be your biggest support not your worse critic

Go easy on yourself It is easy to say, “lighten up” or “go easy on yourself”, but another thing to do it. In the end “some things do take time” to both understand fully, see the benefits of doing it and actually doing it. Are you your worst critic, do…

Stephen Payn

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Be your biggest support not your worse critic

Stephen Payn

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I Have Never Made More Than $1 a Month on Medium

Does it help our ongoing conversations? — I have been writing now for quite a long time, though only for a year on Medium. I have never done it for the money, which is good seeing as I have never made more than $1 a month since I started on Medium. This isn’t about me making a…

Stephen Payne

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I Have Never Made More Than $1 a Month on Medium

Stephen Payne

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Day after day, Time after time, People choose to love

Making life choices — I heard the title of this article on a TV show in the UK, where they followed what happed in an Emergency Room (A&E) for 24 hours. There was tragedy, pain, sorrow, smiles, love, memories created and shared. …

Love

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Love

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·1 hour ago

I hope we have learnt a lesson

Holocaust memorial day Thought for the day: may we learn lessons from the past mistakes of humanity and seek to heal the world with peace and respect. This is one of the most haunting pictures of all time. The entrance to a Nazi death camp. A memory which stains humanity. …

Peace

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Peace

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·4 days ago

A Leader Knows When to Quit

Homage to Ardern — Thought for the Day: quitting is legitimate. Know when to do it. In the past week, a true servant of her people Jacinda Arden did what was right for her and her people. She quit. We need no more endorsement of quitting than that. She is a truly remarkable leader…

Leadership

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Leadership

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·Jan 13

I Love to Fail, as I Learn and Succeed

Never see failure as bad — Thought for the day: if we talked about what we failed at today, we would see ourselves differently, embrace what we have learnt and succeed more. I love this sign. Honestly, though it took me a long long time to accept that (1) failure was allowed, (2) failure was ok…

Success

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Success

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·Jan 10

When You Are Wrapped Up in Hurt

we will be here to take you home Thought for the Day: when we are hurting we need people around us who can take us home. Lost. Worried. Anxious. Scared. Hurt. Ashamed. Sad. Lonely. All valid emotions. All emotions I have felt at some point in my life. …

Hope

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Hope

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Published in Becoming a Better You

·Jan 5

Same struggles, different year

making the change isn’t that easy Thought for the Day: We all need to have positive habits to stop us slipping back. Remember to keep them small. That’s a bed. Obvious. It’s a habit. Why? It is a made bed. No it is not mine or my room either. But…

Habits

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Habits

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·Jan 3

Becoming a Better You

A new publication to aid us all — Thought for the Day: this year we should all find steps to become a better version of who we are, to help ourselves and those around us. So as we begin a New Year may we all really think about not shackling ourselves down with resolutions, which we invariably don’t…

Publication

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