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Give yourself a break by recognising who you really are

Alex Mathers

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Sometimes I look around and think what a strange story most of us live in.

Asking for a flat white with powdered chocolate sprinkled on the top.

Oh, and what’s the wifi password?

Say again? Seven Oh Oh Nine Hashtag Four Underscore Nine?

Got it. Thanks.

Shuffle to laptop and stare at some illuminated pixels pumped through to your machine via a million data points.

Yes, we are here, and yes we must do our best to be modern-day humans.

We need to make money. We need to do our taxes. We need to think of clever ways to entice other humans to hand over money for our clever offerings.

Sometimes it works, and we feel the thrill of having figured out life.

And other times our experiments fail.

Things didn’t work out the way we wanted them to.

They didn’t engage with our video.

They didn’t want to buy that video course I made.

And we feel the sting of reality out of alignment with our hopes.

Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and breathe.

Here’s the truth:

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