Eve Arnold

1 month ago | eve-arnold.medium.com | Eve Arnold

So be carefulEve Arnold·Follow2 min read·--“This isn’t going to work.”The day began like that. It had been a good day followed by a bad day. So naturally, I’d forgotten all about the good stuff and focused on the bad. I ruminated. Fixated. My mind spiralled into all the reasons it wouldn’t work, I wasn’t good enough, that things were destined to fail. That I should pack up and leave. I love thinking. To ponder, understand, unpick, unravel, unearth.

2 months ago | eve-arnold.medium.com | Eve Arnold

Member-only storyThe 90-day commitmentEve Arnold·Follow2 min read·--Photo by Marcos Paulo Prado on UnsplashIt’s 7 am. I’ve been here since 6:33 am. This morning, it’s different. I told myself I was stopping the scroll. It’s been a few weeks of the same event playing out repeatedly. I feel the same every single time it happens but yet, only today I’ve decided to stop it — the brain is a funny thing. For the last few weeks, my mind has been stolen by the ideas of the world.

2 months ago | eve-arnold.medium.com | Eve Arnold

Member-only storyA short storyEve Arnold·Follow3 min read·--Photo by Greg Rosenke on UnsplashMaybe it’s a good thing to get to the end of your tether. I’ve been doing that a lot recently. Pulling my hair out if you will. Feeling overwhelmed by the constant second-guessing of myself and my decisions. I reached peak frustration with myself a few days ago. I was in town and I’d decided that morning I was going to get back into reading.

2 months ago | eve-arnold.medium.com | Eve Arnold

Don’t stopEve Arnold·Follow2 min read·--I get it. It’s hard. You’re trying, it’s not working. You’re trying again. It doesn’t work — again. You think it’s probably you. Common denominator, right? It’s gotta be you, who else? Everyone else, they’re flying. Selling, building, managing, growing, doing stuff. You know. ‘The stuff’. They’re the picture of success and here you are, failing. At least it feels like that.

2 months ago | eve-arnold.medium.com | Eve Arnold

Maybe let’s take a step backEve Arnold·Follow3 min read·--Photo by Amin Oussar on UnsplashI know, I know. Things haven’t been going well. You’ve been getting on your own nerves. You make promises, you don’t keep them, you get frustrated, you repeat. Over and over. It’s been like this for months. You decide you need a reset. A fresh start. You need to lock yourself in, commit to the thing, get serious — you know?