The Mindful Baker

We have become deeply suspicious of anything that takes time. If a business has not taken off within a year, we assume the idea must be wrong. If a fitness plan has not transformed our body within six weeks, we lose interest. If a child is not reading, sleeping, speaking or behaving according to some imaginary timetable, we worry that something has gone awry. We plant a garden in spring and feel vaguely cheated when it does not resemble Chelsea Flower Show by June. We have be

There is a strange pressure that creeps in towards the end of the year. It arrives quietly at first, disguised as reflection, before turning into a low hum of urgency. Review the year. Extract the lessons. Optimise the failures. Set goals. Set better goals. Bigger ones. Cleaner ones. Goals that prove you have learned something. And if you do not do this quickly enough, or convincingly enough, it can start to feel like you are already behind. But before you rush into the new y

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