Savoir Vivre Vignettes
The Purpose-Driven Antidote to Procrastination: Why Knowing Your “Why” Is the Ultimate Productivity Hack
Ever wonder why some people seem to glide through their to-do lists while you're stuck procrastinating while refreshing social media for the fifteenth time today? The secret isn't better time management apps or fancy productivity systems—it's having a crystal-clear sense...
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Saying No is a Full Sentence: How Your Life Purpose Solidifies Your Boundaries
The Boundaries Breakthrough: From People-Pleaser to Purpose-Powered Bite-seized Summary This article explores how discovering your life purpose fundamentally changes your ability to say no without feeling guilty, without lengthy explanations, or emotional drama. When you're crystal clear on your purpose,...
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Why Live a Purpose-Driven Life?
From FOMO to Focus: How Purpose Transforms Your Brain, Boundaries, and Breakfast Choices You’ve heard it before. That hushed, reverent whisper during late-night soul-searching conversations: "You NEED to find your life purpose." Cue the dramatic music, the wind-swept hair, and...
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FOMO-Proof Your Life: The Power of Purpose in a Distracted World
Identifying Your Life Purpose Is Your Secret Weapon Against Comparison Culture When you know why you're here, you're far less susceptible to the "Fear of Missing Out." You don't need to be everywhere, do everything, or try to keep up....
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Intermittent Fasting: Everything You Need to Know Before You Start
Welcome to Your Intermittent Fasting Adventure Congratulations on taking this important step toward better health by joining this intermittent fasting retreat. Whether you're here as a complete beginner curious about the practice, someone who's tried IF before but wants to...
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Why it is Important to Know the Difference between Self-Awareness and Mindfulness
Integrating the Mirror and the Witness Summary While often used interchangeably, self-awareness and mindfulness are distinct yet complementary paths to understanding ourselves and our experience. Self-awareness is the mirror that reflects who we are. Mindfulness is the witness that observes...
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Digital Generosity: Kindness in the Age of the Algorithm
“That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”― Simone de Beauvoir Summary In our hyper-connected world, where algorithms determine what we see and engagement metrics rule our feeds,...
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Radical Generosity: A Revolutionary Act in a Self-Absorbed World
How Unapologetic Giving Disrupts Scarcity Culture and Creates Huge Paradigm Shifts Summary In an era dominated by self-optimisation and individual success metrics, radical generosity emerges as a subversive force capable of reshaping entire communities and challenging the fundamental assumptions of...
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The Giving Revolution: How Infectious Generosity Recalibrates Your Life
How Small Acts of Kindness Create Ripple Effects That Transform Communities Those of you who know me personally, especially those of you who have attended one of my Camino de Santiago walking retreats, probably know that Gratitude and Generosity are...
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Are You Building the Future You Want?
Introducing a New Paradigm As I find myself (no idea how it happened so fast) at the start of yet another decade, I'm thinking of creating a 10- year plan. As I have never done this before, not being a...
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What a Week in Nature, Walking the Camino in Southwest France, Can Teach You About the Next 10 Years
How an Ancient Pilgrimage Trail can Reveal Your True Direction in Life The morning mist clings to the rolling hills of Gascony like whispered secrets, and Sarah's boots crunch against the frost-touched grass as she takes her first steps on...
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The Life Purpose Prison: Why Your “One True Calling” Might Be Paralysing You
The Hidden Cost of Hunting for Your Life's Mission Maya Angelou was a dancer, singer, actress, poet, civil rights activist, journalist, and memoirist. Steve Jobs dropped out of college, studied calligraphy, travelled to India, co-founded Apple, was fired from his...
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From Purpose to Impact: How Clarity of Purpose Becomes Your Impact Multiplier
Why Clarity of Purpose Is Your Secret Weapon for Creating Exponential Change 5 Key Takeaways Purpose is an impact amplifier – It doesn't just make you feel good; it exponentially increases your effectiveness by focusing your energy and attracting the...
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Location Isn’t the Limitation: Living Big in Small Ways
Living a Big Life in a Small, Simple and Slow Way The Instagram feed tells a seductive story. Golden hour in Santorini. Morning yoga on a Balinese terrace overlooking emerald rice paddies. Cobblestone streets in Prague at dawn, empty except...
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The Neuroscience of Navigating Change: How Spirituality Can Guide You Through Life’s Major Transitions
Inspired by Dr. Lisa Miller's book, "The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life." Let's be honest—life has a way of throwing us curveballs when we least expect them. Whether it's a sudden...
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Why you should always ask “Why?”
Before You Start Building a New Life I read a book this week that rocked my world. It was Simon Sinek's book "Start with Why." Simon's book "Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action" argues that...
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Act Like the Person You Want to Become
Stop being yourself. I know that sounds like terrible advice in a world obsessed with "authenticity" and "being true to yourself." But here's the uncomfortable truth: the "self" you're being authentic to might be exactly what's keeping you stuck. Think...
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Live a Big Life in a Small Way: The Power of Micro-Moments
It's 6:47 AM, and I'm sitting on my porch with a steaming cup of coffee cradled in my hands. The world is still wrapped in that tender quiet that comes just before dawn breaks. A cardinal lands on the fence...
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A Portable Life Purpose
Trading Possessions for Possibilities in Your Prime Years The morning I sold my four-bedroom suburban home and packed my life into two suitcases, my neighbour asked the question that haunts every aspiring nomad: "But what about your roots? Don't you...
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The Invisible Weight of Success: Why Selling the Company Isn’t the End of the Story
The champagne has been uncorked, the congratulations received, and the wire transfer confirmed. You've just sold the company you built from nothing – the business that consumed your days, invaded your dreams, and became synonymous with your identity for decades....
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The Executive’s Renaissance: Building Your Dream Business with Decades of Experience
Trading corporate security for values-driven ventures You've climbed the corporate ladder. You've delivered results, exceeded targets, and built a reputation that opens doors. Your LinkedIn profile reads like a masterclass in professional achievement. Yet here you are, somewhere past 50,...
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Forget Retiring – Start Reconstructing
A fresh perspective on life's next chapter that transcends traditional retirement The End of Retirement As We Know It Jane stood at the edge of her office party, champagne in hand, as colleagues celebrated her 40-year career. The gold watch,...
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Weekly Digest 12-18 May 25
Blending soulful insight, dry wit, and hard-earned real-world wisdom, these articles offer more than just feel-good inspiration — they’re field guides for anyone who’s found themselves standing at a crossroads or stuck in a life crisis. Whether you’re navigating an...
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The Dignity of Letting Go: Why Downsizing is a Beginning, not an End
There’s a story I often share at the start of a retreat. It’s about a woman named Claire, a retired executive who once ran a team of 400, a household with five bedrooms and a summer home in the Alps....
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Why We’re Obsessed with Finding Our Life Purpose (And What That Actually Says About Us)
I know, it sounds absurd, yet there you are, wide awake in the early morning hours, dragging yourself out of bed and wondering: why are we so obsessed with this grand quest? Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the...
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The Purpose Pursuit
Why We Are Obsessed With Finding Our Life's Meaning I read an article on HBR (Harvard Business Review) that explained that the top use of AI in 2025 is for "Therapy/Companionship." "Content Creation" is second, and "Finding our Life Purpose"...
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Nature Immersion: The Overlooked Anti-aging Elixir
In our endless quest for youth and vitality, we've created a multi-billion-dollar industry of creams, supplements, treatments, and procedures. Yet one of the most powerful anti-ageing remedies remains largely overlooked, undervalued, and free for the taking: immersion in the natural...
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The Clock That Runs Backward: Reimagining Aging in the Era of Biohacking
Most people see ageing as an inevitable march forward. They've accepted the conventional wisdom that our bodies and minds will deteriorate with each passing year. I used to believe this too. Until I didn't. What if I told you that...
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Why Is This Happening to Me?
How upheaval creates the perfect conditions for authentic transformation. Summary When life throws us into unexpected turmoil—whether through a career change, a relationship breakdown, a health crisis, or any profound disruption—our first question is often a desperate "Why is this...
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Am I Living My Own Life or Am I Living Someone Else’s?
Whose Dreams Are You Chasing? Untangling Expectations from Authenticity Summary Have I been living authentically, or just trying to live up to others’ expectations? This question often surfaces during significant life transitions—when the foundations we’ve relied on begin to disintegrate....
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