hypnowithdean

I have always thought Ted Lasso was one of those programmes that is very easy to describe badly. You could say it is a comedy about an American football coach coming over to England to manage a Premier League team despite knowing very little about the game. And technically that is true. But it is also completely missing the point. Because Ted Lasso has never really been about football. There is a lot of football in it, obviously. There are changing rooms, matches, tactics, managers,...

I've found myself thinking a lot about manifestation recently. It seems to be everywhere these days. Scroll through social media and you'll see people talking about vision boards, affirmations, positive energy and the law of attraction. There are stories of dream jobs appearing, houses being bought, relationships beginning and businesses thriving, all apparently because someone believed hard enough that it would happen. For some, it's become almost a religion. For others, it's complete...

I've been thinking a lot recently about how much energy we waste trying to convince people. Not just about the big things in life, but about almost everything. We convince people that we're making the right decision, that we're happier than we used to be, that we've chosen the right path, that we've changed for the better, that our boundaries aren't personal, that our dreams aren't unrealistic. Somewhere along the way, many of us have quietly started believing that if everyone else...