How to Stay Strong, and Persevere 🫶🏽
This week has been tough for most everyone I know, so here are some thoughts on finding strength, and perseverance 🫶🏽 and an invitation to share what works for you
How to Get Unstuck Creatively, and Making Peace with Your Inner Critic
This week, the Long View has struggled with getting stuck creatively, and gone in search of answers: how do you make peace with your inner critic? 🤔
How To Be an Optimist (*and a Realist)
This week, The Long View is feeling the turn of the seasons 🍁 and also sensing some flagging spirits out there. We reflect on how to stay optimistic 🌿, whilst also keeping it real.
If I Must Die 🪁
This week, the Long View takes a moment of silence, in solidarity with the people of Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine, Sudan – and in all the world’s burdened, and silenced, places.
How to Handle Difficult Comments (and People)
This week, The Long View reflects on how to handle tough comments on social media and in life, and shares some advice for keeping your cool 😎 and being true to yourself when answering difficult questions (and people) ☀️
A Call to Humanity: Can We Protect One Another When the State Fails to Protect Us?
This week, The Long View is back to school, but can’t shake the after-effects of recent racist riots in the UK, and is reflecting on this question: what can ordinary people do to support and protect each other? [trigger warning: racism, Gaza, sexual violence]
How to Tackle Really Big Challenges
⛰️This week, we consider how tackling a very big work challenge is a bit like climbing a Munro, and share some tips for making the impossible, possible ✊🏽
The Importance of Doing Nothing
The Long View is back from holiday, with some reflections on why we all need breaks – big and small – and how that could work differently for each of us. The challenge of doing nothing I am famously bad at doing nothing – the Italian phrase “il dolce far niente” (the sweetness of doing…
Is Optimism a Feeling, or an Action?
Today is Day 1 of a new political era for the UK, following a landslide victory by the Labour party last night, ending 14 years of Conservative party rule. This week, in the final days before this election, I joined some of my favourite people in the world at a conference hosted by Public Law…
How to Stop Runaway Thoughts
This week, I’ve had a few conversations that were heavy with panic, worry and frustration. Here’s my strategy for accepting overthinking (and letting go). 🎈