The REAL meaning of success... and how to achieve it

Following my last blog about embracing failure, I was moved to write a few words about success - and how this too has been misinterpreted in our culture, in a way that really doesn't serve us and our happiness. 

I write these words from a fancy 5 star hotel in Rajasthan that I’m currently living in with my boyfriend (his work is paying for it!), which is a very new experience for me. I’m more used to crumbling guest houses with damp in the walls, or maybe a “shabby chic” beach hut if I’m lucky (in Thailand we managed to land a DREAM beach house but it did also have walls full of termites and cockroaches!)

Being in this shiny, perfumed paradise, with a massive bed like a cloud and every need catered for is, of course, lovely but the novelty is wearing off.

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How to cope when life chucks you a curveball

As the great man, Bowie, said: "Turn and face the strange, Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes" and this feels particularly resonant to me as I prepare, this week, for a major change in my working life, leaving London to work remotely in Asia as a ‘Digital Nomad’. As I left my office at the university on Wednesday, I was a bit sad to leave lovely colleagues behind but the overwhelming feeling was of excitement at the uncertainty and sense of possibility this new life brings.

Which got me thinking about change, and the very different emotions it can bring up in you. 

 And more specifically about the difference between big life changes you’ve chosen and ones you haven’t...

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