Here are 3 things I thought were worth sharing this month:
It’s always good to eat first.
I’m keen to try out recipes Beens’n’Cheese by Jenny Rosenstrach and her Braised Beans. I am always looking for ways to feel inspired to eat more beans. Beans seem boring but pack one hell of a nutritional and life-extending punch (I say as a qualified nutritionist).
I’m subscribed to Jenny’s blog Dinner: A Love Story, to keep inspired in efforts to eat less meat and am on the lookout to buy her new cookbook The Weekday Vegetarians. Subscribing to her paid content gets you meal plans too.
Once your tummy is full, feed your mind.
I did the Free Online Course ReInventing Yourself with Debbie Millman.
I’ve been around the block with online courses, and this is one to do. Each video is under 5 minutes and presents well-researched, inspiring ideas.
From the course, I came out with My Personality Pyramid. Starting with my Attributes being: Tenacious, Quintessential and Visionary.
My Benefit Statement is: A poetic and deep thinking visionary who also sees the detail, can make the plan and invites everyone along.
My Mission Statement: Humble people to see they uniquely matter, we make sense together and from that foundation, you have all you need to go for it, fall down and try again.
Head over to her LinkedIn Course whilst it is still free.
Soul food is next up. Here is my latest poem:
THE UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE CALLING
One day, there will be something you have to do.
You may have a reason or sense to do so, or it may not come with any sense to it at all.
It may come with a clear line of sight or you may have no idea how to reach it.
It could come with support and encouragement but for some it will come with misunderstandings and create rifts in life.
But it will come and tug at you.
This thing you are to do for you.
You may ignore it. By doing so, you will start digging a hole in yourself and whilst feeling wholeness was already fleeting for you – as it naturally is – it will now come with an emptiness. It will come with an inkling that doing for everyone else isn’t going to quench the need for doing for you. Until you do what you have to do.
It could be lifelong.
It could be a single thing.
It could be many things or one particular thing over and over.
Either way, it is the thing that you are to do for you.
This is the only way to partake in your journey, to walk your path, to find what you are here to find.
And no, it won’t be an answer or arrive you at any life meaning. It is simply to be done for you.
That is enough. That is still big.
Doing it will avoid a pit of regret forming deep inside.
Life isn’t about fireworks or accolades, yet this may come for some.
Life is in the living in line with your curiosities, in attending to your call, this thing you are to do.
That tug.
Avoiding the silence doesn’t avoid the call.
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