June Musings

Musings: Standards, simplicity, creating yourself, and mid-year reviews.

As they say, a kiss and a hug for the first day of the month — welcome to June!

Now, here are this month’s musings … 

An idea to ponder —

Your standards set the stage for almost everything you experience — whether it's your health, the relationships you have, the work you do, or your state of happiness. Much of it comes back to our standards and what we will and won't accept from ourselves and others.

Because, in most cases, we know what we need to do to achieve the goals we have and live a life we love but whether we hold ourselves to standards that achieve those is what ultimately determines our experiences.

Therefore, if you want to improve your life, improve your standards.

A book to read —

• L’art de la Simplicite by Dominique Loreau

Perhaps my most gifted and re-read book, L’art de la Simplicite provides imperative insights to help you maximise your life by emphasising the importance of quality, simplicity, and prioritising what truly matters — your health, relationships, happiness, finances, and maximising life itself.

Based on timeless principles, L’art de la Simplicity exalts the benefits that come from creating a life you love living, with emphasis on prioritising your health, tidy environments, quality over quantity, keeping a clear mind, simplifying your life and maintaining a lifelong commitment to being and becoming your best self.

For those interested in topics such as essentialism, mindfulness and the like, L’art de la Simplicite is definitely one to add to your reading list — it also makes for a beautiful coffee table book, that is, if you don’t underline, dog ear and post-it note majority of the book as I have.

Quotes to remember —

• But if you have nothing at all to create, perhaps create yourself — Carl Jung

• The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself. — Diane Von Furstenberg

• It’s important to be more mindful of the important role that beauty plays in our lives and to be intentional with bringing more beauty into our lives to enrich our lives with more aesthetic experiences and pleasures. — Lana Blakely

An action to implement —

• We’re about halfway through the year, making it a great time to review the goals you’ve set for yourself. Set aside some time this week to reflect on how the year has progressed. Acknowledge whether you're on your way to achieving your goals and identify what you could be doing to move closer to them or if you still want to achieve certain ones.
  
  If you need a framework to help you become the person who achieves those goals, consider the Metamorphosis guide — a self-directed guide with key habits chosen to help you become your ideal self.

Stay grateful, until next month —
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