"I'm Rubbish At That - And That's Okay!"

One of the things I’m not rubbish at is living a life that is deeply, satisfyingly meaningful to me. From next Monday 3rd Aug (7pm UK, 2pm EST) I’m running a three week online course looking at why it’s not easy to be human and how we can move towards meaning. It’ll include stories from my life, proposals and remedies. Join me? If you’re undecided, email me satya@satyarobyn.com and share your thoughts/tell me what’s holding you back.

Dear Beloved,

This week I had the job of supporting an online therapy training.

I was RUBBISH at concentrating. I had the responsibility of leading some small groups and this was different and easy and actually really beautiful, but at other times my attention drifted from the screen to my phone as if it was a lump of butter sliding off a piece of hot toast. Flllllooeoorprppp.

Previous versions of me would have reacted to this state of affairs in the following ways:

🧠 “I must fix this about myself immediately.”

🧠 “What a terrible sloppy-minded person I am. Gurggh.”

🧠 “Hey, do lots more online training so you can get better at this!”

This 51-year-old version of me said:

💗 “Well, this is useful information to have about myself. I tell you what, I’ll pull out of that online training I’d provisionally signed up for, and do some in-person training instead. I’ll do my best to concentrate for the duration of this training, whilst also accepting that my brain will probably carry on flitting about a fair bit. You’re excellent at some things aren’t you, my love, and really rubbish at others. That’s how it is to be human, eh?”

It felt very, very good.

What are you rubbish at? How would it be to accept this thing about you and work with it/alongside it/make different choices rather than trying to fix it or feeling bad about it? If you are feeling brave, you can tell me what it is in the comments.

If you need it, offering you some of the fondness I had for myself. What fallible, awesome, unique, impossible, gorgeous creatures we are.

Love, Satya <3

Here’s the link to register for my ‘How to live a meaningful life’ course again - I’m running it f2f in Malvern later in August.

(I’m definitely going to disappear for the rest of August now, unless you’re one of my paid subcribers. See you in September!)