Instructions for how to be ourselves.

Most of us have likely got some kinds of guides on our bookshelves. Advice for life and work; productivity hacks; time management suggestions; how to work less but be twice as amazing and so on.

But sometimes, we just need to be still and turn inwards to see what we need.

In some ways, the pandemic helped me be still. Rushing around, London days, meeting people, coaching and running presentations - for a while, these all stopped.

It was a kind of peace. A kind of pause, to work out what’s next. It afforded me the time to go through all my old notebooks. In those notebooks, I found advice, stories, ideas I’d needed over the years. 

In this week’s Reboot.io’s podcast, the ever-insightful host Jerry Colonna asks me about the book that came out of those notebooks. Advice to myself to stay on the right path.

As Jerry reflects in the podcast:

“By noting what makes us sad or what makes us happy, what makes us feel fulfilled, or what completes us we then, in effect, end up assembling perhaps even instructions for how to be ourselves.”

And they hopefully resonate with others too.