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On Thursday the 30th March 2022, Bruce Willis’s family announced that he would be retiring from acting. The decision was made after Bruce was diagnosed with Aphasia, which is a neuro-cognitive disorder that affects a person’s ability to speak & understand language. We’re going to be taking a look at Bruce’s legacy in today’s blog!
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I’m going to be heading into the final term of my undergraduate degree in 2 weeks, so I thought that I would use today to share my thoughts about the last couple of my university journey. Let’s get cracking!
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How are you all doing? Have you taken time to focus on self-care? If so, comment below and let me know your self-care secrets!!
Today’s post is about that all important self-care routine!! Who has a routine in place already?
First things first, I want to start this post off by reminding you all that self-care is NOT selfish. Let’s say it again…. Self-care is NOT selfish! Nor is it a waste of time – it’s a very important part of our lives and something we need to focus more on. Let’s go back to basics and let’s ask ourselves a really simple question- on a scale of 1-10 how is your mental health? How is your physical health? How is your emotional health?
It doesn’t matter if you answered really…
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If there is anything that we seem to fear most in this world, it is uncertainty. The great unknown, the darkness that lies in the abyss. 52 more words
How to Manage Uncertainty: Lessons from Philosophy — Pointless Overthinking
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Today’s blog is my Sweeney’s Stuttering Update for March 2022!! I like to do these posts as a check-in on my journey to speech fluency, so without further ado, let’s see what today’s has in store 🙂
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Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance ship was found in Antarctica this week after sitting at the bottom of the Weddell Sea for 107 years. I wrote this piece in 2013 after I read Alfred Lansing’s book called “Endurance.” It’s my most popular post and I felt it was timely to bring to light once again, Shackleton’s incredible […]
Leadership and Sir Ernest Shackleton — Workplace Navigator
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The warm weather has finally arrived in Reading, and what a time it’s chosen too!! In today’s blog, we’ll be taking a look at the power of warm weather, and how it can help give us all a well-needed mood booster 🙂
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I am absolutely delighted to announce that, as of last week, Sweeney’s Blogs has now passed over 30,000 total views!! We’ll be taking a closer look at what surpassing this milestone means to me in today’s blog!
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How can we help find the balance between our mind, body & spirit? What is Ayurveda & how can it help our Mental Health? We’ll be taking a look at the answers to these questions & more in today’s guest blog!!
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Night and day. Light and darkness. Masculine and Feminine. Chaos and order. Life is comprised of a series of interconnected opposing forces. Everything that exists has an opposite, just as there is always two sides to the same coin. Although we are inclined to seek pleasure without pain or cling onto the ‘good’ while banishing…
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“Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower”
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Hope is something that connects us all as people, right? We hear the word mentioned countless times as we go through life, but what is the true power of hope? That’s what we are going to be taking a look at in today’s blog! 🙂
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Today marks the final day in February 2022 & as another month comes to a close, that means it’s time for Sweeney’s Stuttering Update – this time for February 2022!! I like to do these update posts once a month, as a way to keep you all in the loop about my journey to speech fluency!
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If only things were that simple. If only events could be packaged into neat containers of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ or ‘good’ and ‘evil’. Despite our proclivities towards binary and dualistic thinking, life is a whole lot messier. Many circumstances are morally ambiguous and uncertain. Being in this metaphorical ‘grey’ area of not knowing can be…
The Wisdom of Being Wrong — Pointless Overthinking
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Random acts of kindness are contagious, wouldn’t you agree? I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of kindness, and as we haven’t really covered it for a while on the page, we are going to be taking a look at it in today’s blog.
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I think of myself as quite a happy person even in the toughest of situations. I find that this way of dealing with both the events going on around you and your emotions are for me the best. This is something that I like to refer to as “My Happy Disposition”, and is going to be what we are going to be exploring in today’s blog!
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