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Jellyfish

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I didn’t intend to blog about jellyfish, I just happened to draw one with pastels today at Art Club, then only having a short time slot before going out to celebrate my daughter’s 16th birthday, I was unusually stuck for something to say for today’s blog and feeling under pressure.

So here are some interesting facts about jellyfish and there is a great deal more:

They don’t have brains, just nerve nets.

There are over 10,000 species of jellyfish compared to just one human species.

Some of them can glow in the dark.

They can clone themselves.

They start life as a static polyp and then go on to move as we know them.

Not all of them have tentacles.

Lastly, some have been known to eat peanut butter, not sure who or why this was discovered. Perhaps Sunpat were looking for a new market.

Ok, so maybe jellyfish isn’t your thing or you knew all of this already.

We live in an amazing world, populated by some amazing life forms.

How often do we stop to find out anything about them? How often do we spend any time in the natural world?

There is a world all around us, don’t miss it.

Invest in yourself

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I have blogged a few times about the idea of not waiting to be picked by others and to choose yourself. Ensure that our future is in our control.

Once you have chosen yourself, however, you are going to need to invest in you.

Incomes are stagnant for some, but for most, they are falling in real terms. Jobs and job functions are being replaced by technology. There is more and more competition for work.

Many seek alternatives and become freelance, but then there are more and more people becoming freelance and therefore, more and more competition.

The solution is to read more, listen more, learn more, get a mentor, get a coach, and develop yourself. Learn, improve, adapt, and learn, improve, and adapt again, and again and….

Invest time in you and as much as you can.

We as individuals, more than ever, have to stand out, have to become the best versions of ourselves that we can.

Just doing ‘good enough’ is letting ourselves down.

We are our only asset and we need to nurture ourselves continually if we are going to be equipped for the world that is rapidly changing and achieve our dreams.