Evolve with Ella

Today's episode I explore the dynamic between enjoyable emotions/experiences and the less enjoyable ones. Where if you avoid negative experiences and emotions, you reduce the amount of happiness, achievement, connection and excitement you feel.

Avoid injury/ lose results. Avoid heartbreak/ lose connection. Avoid posting and criticism/ lose chance of support. The moral of the story is to embrace the journey, the roller coaster. Because if you avoid the lows you lose the highs, and the highs are so much more rewarding when you've had lows.

I wanted to take a moment to reflect on how different my future outlook on life is, between this year and last. So much has changed and a massive part of that is because my mental health has improved. Its really easy to believe it only exists as a constant and won't change but I wanted to share my experience in learning that even though things can have been hard for a long time, it doesn't mean its guaranteed to continue. I wanted to reassure you that you can make it out the other side. Your life can change at any moment, don't give up, give it the chance to get better.

It's okay not to be okay, reach out.

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I reflection on what I've learnt from the times I've moved house and had to build from the ground up. I've learnt that:

1 More than one location can feel like home

2 You quickly establish new routines and habits

3 Unexpected moves can all be apart of the plan 

4 There’s communities out there that you didn’t know existed

5 You grow your circle and make new friends

6 Your relationship with yourself is the most important 

7 You learn the skill of talking to strangers

8 You figure out who you are and what makes you you

9 You increase your mental resilience

10 You learn that not knowing anyone won’t kill you

The reality is that being scared to make mistakes and be vulnerable stops your progress and prevents growth. This can show up in many areas such as businesses and hobbies, uni work, relationships and emotional conversations.

I was planning to talk about an entirely different topic today but was sat in front of my laptop frustrated that it had taken me so long to record another episode. So I decided to delve into why I'd procrastinated it and how that was showing up in other areas of my life.

It's important to remember to continually reject this idea of being perfect and focus on progress and showing up.

Thanks for listening!

We live in a day and age where we have so many ways to access content, and that has a big influence on our lives and creation of things.

This episode I talk about the relationship between the two concepts and how they interact. The main idea is to be aware of how much you're consuming and why you're consuming it, and how much you're creating and why you're creating it.

It's so important to be individual and not just a vessel for other peoples ideas!

Welcome to the first episode guys! The theme of this podcast will be around learning, and sharing ideas about changing my perspective or lifestyle, so to start off I thought it would be fitting to go through ten things I've learned in life so far that I feel are most important or have had the biggest impact on me.

This is not a perfect cut, I've since got a mic, I'll get better at editing, and intros! but I wanted to just get started and put this out there and not get lost in perfectionism. 

Let me know what you think!

Ella xx