Stop optimising your life, start being silly again!

21 Jul 2026 · 44 min

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Did you forget that life is supposed to be for fun?! Are you optimising your life within a poor inch of its life?Me too. Today I’m talking about how I’ve been so focused on work, work, work, optimising, strategising, planning - that I started to take life a little too seriously again. This is for any of you who have remembered and forgotten, over and over again, that life gets to be magical, and that there are small ways you can turn towards the sun in your life when it all feels fucking flat. Our job in life is to never miss the details, because that is where the beauty is. It’s in small…

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