1509: Looking after our animal selves
Today we're taking inspiration from the furry friends in our lives, and wrapping up this week with some much needed reminders!
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily Peppers and a very happy Friday to you. So if you are listening to this, chances are you are trying to build a life you love and live your best life. I've never hugely loved that term, but. But also I can't really think of anything that quite gets to it either. Now, when it comes to living our best lives and building the life we love, we can find so much inspiration around us and I think some of it can be under our noses completely. And I am thinking about our furry friends, whether that is our own pets or whether that's birds that we can see outside the window. Now, I have always thought there is a fuck ton we can learn from them. For a start, they don't negotiate with their basic needs.
They don't put off having a wee because they've got two more emails to send. They also don't give a shit about comparison. If you think of birds tweeting and saying goodnight to each other, you haven't got some that are silent because they don't think their tweets are quite in tune. They sleep for as much time as they need to, which I know is a luxury for many of us, but I know I can learn a lot from them when it comes to revenge, bedtime, procrastination, which I'm pretty sure they don't do, and also the ability to be in the moment. We humans live in a complicated ass world and so often we forget that we too are animals. And some of it comes down to the simple things. And humans have made a lot of life way too complex. And we've got this wonderful skill of overthinking everything.
So if you're feeling overwhelmed, if you need a reminder to tend to your basic needs, or if you need permission to just play a bit more and live in the moment, this is it. So cheers to all of our furry friends, past, present and future. May we love them, may we learn from them, and may we remember that we are soft animals too, deserving of the love we so easily give them. Have a fabulous weekend. I can't wait to be back with you in your inbox. If you are part of my email community and you can find out more and get in on that by going to the rebelrousers.com letters or back in your lovely ears on Monday. And in the meantime, as always, remember that everything changes when you believe you matter.
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