We often focus so much on either the future or the past. The past of what was and the future of what if… When we focus too much on the future, we can become overwhelmed and anxious. Now, I love the big picture. I love being able to see what we want to achieve and where we are heading, but what I was forgetting was all the amazing steps we are already taking towards that big goal.

I have always been described as an extrovert. I get involved in conversations, laugh, and tell stories, but what the outside world doesn't see is my internal narrative. This battle goes on when I am going to meet people I don't fully know, join a networking group, or go into a place I haven't been before.

There has been an interesting feeling around. I hear many describe it as "let's just get through this", while others feel a sense of the unknown, the question of "what will ever happen next?" tends to be the tone.

I was thinking about the sentence I'd just created and the fact that I'd put two ideas together that couldn't actually exist at the same time. I had created an impossible equation, and yet I'd been asking my brain to solve it every single day.

Someone can gain enough influence to rewire your brain and make you consider giving up your dreams, changing roles, shifting identities, or shrinking yourself. So, why do we let this hap I've been listening to incredible women who are strong, fiery, and just bloody amazing, and they're feeling caught up in knots and twists. They're unsure, worried, panicked, and they feel like their only option is maybe to leave something they've worked so hard for. Their confidence is low. T

What perception is projection asks us to consider is whether the meaning we are attaching to that behaviour belongs entirely to the other person, or whether some of it belongs to us. One of the reasons I find this topic so fascinating is that the human brain can only recognise behaviour it already understands.