“Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?”

Marcus Aurelius

Back to business:

Subscription Joy

When you are checking your statements, locate your monthly subscriptions and – ask yourself:

Has this been useful or bought me joy in the last month?

If yes – continue.

If no – destroy it.

A great many of us are paying through the nose for things we won’t use.

Don’t.

Help.

In the past I have been afraid to ask for help.

Why:

Afraid of looking like an amateur
Afraid of looking like I’m an incapable of self sufficiency
Afraid of ruining the painstakingly constructed, but woefully 2 dimensional image my ego tries to projects:

of someone who knows what they are doing.

Someone who can say, don’t worry I got this.

Someone my competitors feel threatened by (and not the other way round).

But when I saw the Marcus Aurelius quote above, this week I was reminded that we are all fighting our own hard battles. In pursuit of our dreams.

And like the soldier who stumbles and would be stupid not to ask for hand back up, we too must reach out when we feel we have fallen into the trenches.

Yes, I might look like an amateur.

Yes I might be less self reliant.

So I might not got this.

So what.

The stakes are too high not to.

Ask for help when you need it.

FAMILY

I saw Boogie Nights this week

It was on at my local cinema.

I had never seen it.

It’s the best film i have seen in the cinema all year.

I was struck by what a heart warming film it was.

I have not been able to shake the sense that it was, at it’s core, a movie about family.

A highly dysfunctional family of lost souls.

But one where there is a deep vein of love.

So here’s a question I’ve been reflecting on this week:

Over your years, what families (outside of your biological one) have you been a part of? And what influence did they have on you?

This is not a “reply to this email” question. You can if you want, but it’s more for you to just reflect on.

I’ve been pulling at this thread all week and its been fascinating where it’s taking me. I might talk more about it in a future issue.

Let me know if you’ve found any of this useful or interesting by replying to this email.

Until next week,

A x