I'm curious, what time does everyone's routine look like in the morning, do you even have a routine, and what time do you start work ? I dont have a specific set routine, but most days seem to work like: 6.30am - Wake Up & make a coffee. 7am - Check Emails, Calendar & meetings 7.45am - Take kids to school. 8.15am - Another coffee. 8.30am - Start Insta for clients. However, looking at this, I also recognise that there's no exercise in there at all, and no real buffer before I start working, just wake up, caffeine, react to emails, school run, more caffeine, straight into client work. Maybe this explains why some mornings my brain feels like it's already running, before I've even chosen a direction. 🤪 So here's a question 👉 Does anyone else's 'routine' look more like a sequence of reactions than an actual plan? and if you do build in movement or a proper start-of-day ritual, what does that look like, and did it actually help?

It was great to catch up today @James Sopp Thank you both for all your ideas and suggestions - lots to think about!

NeuThinking was always about supporting those who thought differently, and whilst it was created with good intentions, the intentions didn't always sit right. But now they do, and they're alot clearer. Because of this, you might start noticing a few changes, and hopefully, you'll like them. If not, I fully understand that this might not be the group that you initially signed up for, and trust me, the ethos will still remain the same, but at the same time, I understand if you want to step out. Meanwhile, I would love to know what you think of the new NeuThinking styles ?

There.. I said it. Now, don’t get me wrong, your spoon is fine, but mine is THE spoon. 🔥 In our house, it is known as “The Spoon of Plenty” and it is perfect in every way. The exact right weight. The exact right curve. The perfect balance of sharpness & smoothness. I didn’t choose it. It chose me. Now, I know that this might sound a bit strange to some, but others will understand when I say that if it gets lost in the drawer, it’s not “mild inconvenience,” it’s a small personal crisis. If someone else uses it, unless specific permission has been granted, or is offered for someone to feel better because of the “magic, regenerative properties” that it possesses and grants the user, it feels like betrayal. I know that it shouldn’t matter, and that there are 11 other spoons in the drawer, but those are decoys. Impostors. Tribute spoons, if you will. This isn’t fussiness. It’s sensory consistency. When a neurodivergent brain is already managing a lot of input, relying upon one less unknown (hello, familiar weight and texture) is genuinely regulating. It’s the same reason that you’ve got a go-to hoodie, a specific route to work, a playlist on repeat. So there’s no shame in the spoon loyalty. Protect it. Name it if you have to, but just remember that there can be only one.. the rest are just tributes. 🥄🎸 Long live the spoon. All hail “The Spoon of Plenty” 🙌

It's results day for me today for my ILM Coaching & Mentoring qualification, and even though I'm not quite there yet, my assessor gave me some really good feedback. Because I'm a client short, I knew that I was never going to pass this time, but I still had to put in what I had already done, and my assessor said this: "Your response so far is excellent, James. You have considered to such a detailed extent the benefits that were realised by client one. Please do the same for client two, and you could also account for how the coaching activity with your clients benefitted you, too. Great work so far, please continue with this high-quality standard!" Having this type of feedback from people who are already respected in the field is really reassuring me that, even though I know I have more to do, I'm still going in the right direction and that the quality I'm delivering is exactly what I had hoped it would be.