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ActionSage is about empowering women over 40 to achieve better health and self-confidence through personalized running coaching. I provide inclusive, empathetic, and motivational support, helping you build resilience, grow your skills, and thrive in life. Let's embark on a transformative journey together where every step brings you closer to your true potential.

There is one more thing I want to say about questions. 😅Yes, it is important to ask questions. Yes, it is important to a...
04/10/2026

There is one more thing I want to say about questions. 😅

Yes, it is important to ask questions. Yes, it is important to ask the right question at the right time. But there is something else I believe very strongly:

There are no stupid questions.

There are careless, lazy, malicious, or badly timed questions. But a question that genuinely comes from curiosity isn't stupid just because the answer seems obvious.

As a philosopher, a teacher and a gardener, I can tell you that some of the deepest and most insightful questions humanity has ever asked have one very unsatisfying answer: “I don't know.”

Why are we here?
What is consciousness?
Why does anything exist at all?
What happens after we die?
What exactly is life?

We have some fascinating ideas, hypotheses and beliefs. But ultimately?

We don't know.

And “I don't know” isn't the failure of a question. Sometimes it's the most honest and intellectually respectable answer we have.

“I don't know” can be the beginning of curiosity rather than the end of the conversation.

And even questions with seemingly obvious answers are useful.

Because sometimes, when you question the obvious, you discover that it isn't quite as obvious as you thought. Or you discover something underneath it that you had never noticed.

A seed needs moisture, obviously.

But ask a few more questions and suddenly you're talking about dormancy, germination, temperature, hormones, soil, light, timing, survival…

And before you know it, you're standing in a greenhouse wondering how a tiny seed contains enough information to become an entire plant. 🌱

So ask.

Ask the obvious.

Ask the uncomfortable.

Ask the ridiculous.

Ask the question everyone else is too embarrassed to ask.

Ask the question you think you already know the answer to.

Ask anything.

Just ask.

And don't be afraid of “I don't know.”

Sometimes, those three words are where the really interesting questions begin.

Because the better the questions we ask, the better the life we live.

And sometimes, the better the question is... the more honest the answer is:

I don't know. Yet.

😘✨

After writing my last post about questions being more useful than affirmations, I started thinking about something else:...
03/10/2026

After writing my last post about questions being more useful than affirmations, I started thinking about something else:

Not all questions are equally useful at all times.

In fact, sometimes asking the right question at the wrong moment can stop us from doing what we actually want to do.

Take HOW.

We often ask “How am I going to do this?”, and it sounds like a perfectly sensible question. But sometimes it isn't.

Sometimes we don't know how. And if we can't find the answer, we may decide that we can't do it. So we don't even start.

There are things in my life that I would never have done if I had demanded to know exactly how before taking the first step.

Sometimes you need to move first and figure out the how along the way.

Ask HOW afterwards.

Not to beat yourself up about all the things you didn't know. But to look back and think: “How the hell did I actually manage to do that?” 😂

And perhaps admire your own courage, passion, creativity, resourcefulness… and, occasionally, your spectacular stubbornness. 😅

Then there is WHY.

I think WHY belongs much more often at the beginning. Before doing something important, ask:

Why do I want this? What does it mean to me? Why does it matter? What will it change? Is this actually my desire, or something I have been told I should want?

Because knowing your WHY gives meaning to the effort you're about to make.

But asking WHY after everything is already done can sometimes keep us stuck in a pointless investigation:

“Why did this happen?”
“Why did I do that?”
“Why didn't I see it coming?”
“Why did they behave like that?”

Sometimes there simply isn't an answer that will change anything.

It happened.

The more useful question then becomes: WHAT can I do with this now? What can I learn? What can I change? What can I repair? What can I create from it? What is the next move?

So perhaps the questions have their own little timing:

WHY — before. To understand the meaning.

WHAT — when something has happened. To understand what we can do with it.

HOW — along the way and afterwards. To figure out the practicalities — and sometimes to marvel at how we managed.

And there is one question I think can be asked almost anytime: “What is the next useful thing I can do?”

I think, wisdom isn't only about asking good questions — it's also about knowing when to ask which question.

🤓👌

My next book, which I am working on, is titled Who Told You That? — Philosophy of Personal Agency.And I want to share an...
02/10/2026

My next book, which I am working on, is titled Who Told You That? — Philosophy of Personal Agency.

And I want to share an idea from it, so you can get a little taste of what's cooking. 😃

I find many so-called “truths” shared in the modern world questionable. And therefore, I question them — to find out what's really working and what doesn't.

For example, I find a lot of the “repeat this affirmation 100 times a day and manifest your dream life” advice… rather unconvincing. 😅

Not because I don't believe in the power of our minds. Quite the opposite — I think our minds are much more useful than that.

Because if I keep telling myself:

“I am healthy.”
“I am successful.”
“I am confident.”
“I am abundant.”

while my actual life is giving me completely different evidence, a part of my brain is probably going:

“Yeah… nice story. Shall we look at the data?” 😂

And that's where I think questions are much more powerful than affirmations.

Instead of telling myself, “I am healthy”, I can ask: “What is the best thing I can do for my health right now?”

And suddenly, my brain has a job.

Maybe the answer is to drink some water. Maybe it's to eat something nutritious instead of grabbing whatever is closest. Maybe it's to go for a walk. Maybe it's to stop working and go to bed. Maybe it's to make that doctor's appointment I've been postponing.

And then I actually DO something.

Or, instead of telling myself, “I am confident”, I can ask: “What would I do right now if I trusted myself?”

Instead of repeating “I am successful”, I could ask: “What is the next useful thing I can do to move this forward?”

Instead of saying 1000 times “I deserve love”, I could ask: “What kind of behaviour would someone who respects herself accept — and what wouldn't she accept?”

Instead of repeating “I am financially abundant”, I could ask: “What can I do today to make my financial situation stronger?”

Instead of affirming “I am fearless”, I could ask: “What am I afraid of, and what is one small thing I can do anyway?”

Instead of trying to convince myself by repeating “I am happy”, I could ask myself: “What would make today 5% better?”

And perhaps my favourite:

Instead of telling my brain again and again that “I am becoming the person I want to be”, I ask: “What would that person do today?”

Because questions make us look. They make us notice. They make us investigate. They make us search our environment, our memories, our knowledge and our possibilities for an answer. And most importantly, they can turn an abstract wish into a concrete action.

I don't need to convince myself that I'm already healthy — I can become healthier.

I don't need to convince myself that I'm confident when I can collect evidence that I can trust myself.

I don't need to convince myself that I'm successful, because I can do the work that creates success.

Maybe the most powerful affirmation isn't an affirmation at all.

Maybe it's the question: “What can I do right now?”

And then… go do it.

Here are a few other examples you could potentially swap in:

Instead of “I am enough.” ask “Where am I unnecessarily trying to prove myself?”

“I attract good people.” → “What kind of people am I allowing close to me?”

“I am worthy of respect.” → “Where do my actions show that I respect myself?”

“I am disciplined.” → “What would make the right action easier to do today?”

“Everything happens for a reason.” → “Given that this happened, what can I learn or do with it?”

“I deserve my dream life.” → “What am I willing to change, risk, learn or give up to build it?”

The best part is that the better the questions we ask, the better the life we live.

😘👌💯

We can’t control when things go our way and when things break. We all have setbacks. It could be a physical injury or a ...
18/09/2026

We can’t control when things go our way and when things break. We all have setbacks. It could be a physical injury or a mental one. Maybe you put your heart into something and the end result simply wasn’t what you wanted.

And it’s very easy to think that the goal after a setback is to get back to where you were before.

But what if the goal after the break isn’t to go back?

What if it is to make a fresh start, built around a new reality and a new version of yourself? Not better or worse. Just different. Evolved.

Sport psychologists have studied what tends to help people thrive after hardship. Some of it comes down to temperament, such as natural optimism. But two of the strongest predictors are things we can actually practice.

One is positive reframing: instead of seeing the setback only as something that went wrong, seeing it as information. What can I learn from this? What can I do differently? How can I train smarter, recover better, or make a different choice next time?

The other is leaning on knowledgeable people for guidance instead of trying to white-knuckle the whole comeback alone.

I really like that.

Because hardship, failure and injury are unfortunate. There is no need to pretend otherwise. But they can also teach us things we simply couldn't have learned without going through them.

Sometimes the comeback isn't about becoming the person you were before the break.

Sometimes it's about meeting the person you can become because of it.

And then there is my slightly more optimistic way of looking at bad luck. 😃

If you know you might have to hear 100 “no's” before you get the “yes” you really want, wouldn't you be happy every time you hear a “no”?

One down.

99 to go.

I call it a countdown to my reward. 😃

I found these beautiful paperweights in the gift shop at Kew Gardens, back in April this year. Inside each one is a real...
03/09/2026

I found these beautiful paperweights in the gift shop at Kew Gardens, back in April this year. Inside each one is a real dandelion seed head — something that was once made to float away on the wind, carrying a possibility with it.

Now it is perfectly preserved: beautiful, untouched, unable to change.

And I couldn't help thinking about how often we do the same with our own lives.

We preserve old versions of ourselves. Old places. Old relationships. Old scars. Old answers. We polish them with nostalgia until they become almost too beautiful to question.

But there is this strange thing about time:

2015 is now farther away from us than 2035 is.

We cannot go back to 2015. And even if we could, going backwards would be far more complicated, expensive and difficult than simply continuing towards 2035.

Of course, 2035 isn't guaranteed to any of us — that's the uncomfortable part.

The future comes without a map, without answers, and without promises.

But I think I'd rather keep walking towards questions that don't have answers than disappear into nostalgia for answers that can no longer be questioned.

Some things deserve to be preserved, but I don't think we are one of them.

I think we are meant to disperse. To take root somewhere unexpected. To become something we couldn't have imagined when we were still a seed.

Holding these resin paperweights felt nice in my hands. But in the end, I left them back on the shelf.

Because, in my heart, I know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder — and I'd rather blow on a real dandelion and watch its seeds fly away.

Imagine if this version of me, from April, had been set in resin — preserved exactly as I was back then. Because why not — at that moment, I was the most evolved version of myself I had ever been. And also the youngest I would ever be again.

I could have stayed there. Preserved. Beautiful. Untouched.

But I chose to keep moving. To stay vulnerable. To keep asking questions. To look for answers I don't have yet.

Because perhaps growing isn't about finally becoming the most evolved version of ourselves.

Perhaps it's about being brave enough to let that version go.

Why is it so scary to be bad at something? 😃 If you think about it, being bad at something useful is almost always bette...
03/08/2026

Why is it so scary to be bad at something? 😃

If you think about it, being bad at something useful is almost always better than being perfect at doing nothing:

🔹Being bad at swimming is still better than not knowing how to swim when you need it.
🔹Being bad at reading is still better than missing the message altogether.
🔹Being bad at cooking is still better than living on junk food.
🔹Being bad at saving money is still better than never saving a cent.
🔹Being bad at running is still better than never moving your body.
🔹Being bad at speaking a foreign language is still better than never having the conversation.
🔹Being bad at singing is still better than never enjoy the music.
🔹Being bad at gardening is still better than never growing a single tomato.

Perfectionism has convinced far too many people that if they can't be excellent, they shouldn't even try. And that's one of the cleverest forms of self-sabotage!

Every expert was once an awkward beginner.
Every skill started with clumsy attempts.
Every masterpiece began as something imperfect.

You know the saying, done is better than perfect? It's true, because "done" teaches you something, while "perfect" keeps you waiting for Godot.

Nothing in nature is perfect. Trees grow crooked. Rivers don't flow in straight lines. Even our hearts beat with tiny variations. And yet... somehow the world works beautifully imperfect.

Maybe that's because progress has always mattered more than perfection...

"Be obsessed" is one of the most popular pieces of advice on social media these days. Coaches, influencers, modern gurus...
24/06/2026

"Be obsessed" is one of the most popular pieces of advice on social media these days. Coaches, influencers, modern gurus, entrepreneurs, and all sorts of self-appointed experts keep telling us to be obsessed with our goals, obsessed with success, obsessed with becoming the best version of ourselves.

And yet, when psychologists talk about obsession, they don't describe it as a superpower. They describe it as something that can take over our thoughts, distort our judgment, and make our lives smaller rather than bigger.

So I started wondering whether obsession is really the problem, or whether we have simply become very bad at telling the difference between obsession and commitment.

Clearly, commitment and obsession are not the same thing, but at first glance they look almost identical.

Both committed and obsessed runners wake up before sunrise when everyone else is sleeping. Both train consistently. Both think about running more often than non-runners consider normal. Both spend ridiculous amounts of money on shoes. Both willingly run distances that most people would only cover if their car broke down.

From the outside, they can be impossible to tell apart. The difference is happening on the inside.

Commitment is a conscious choice, obsession is a psychological need, and the difference only becomes visible when life gets in the way.

A committed runner misses a workout because their child needs them, because they are injured, or because their body is asking for recovery. They may not like it, but they accept it.

An obsessed runner experiences the same situation very differently. Missing one workout feels almost like a personal failure. Rest creates anxiety. Injury creates panic. Running has quietly stopped being something they do and started becoming who they are.

The committed runner says "I run because it improves my life", the obsessed runner says "I need to run because running is who I am." That difference may seem small, but it matters more than most people realize.

If you think about it, relationships are a good way to explain the difference between commitment and obsession.

Most of us know the difference between loving someone and being obsessed with them, I guess.

A healthy relationship adds something valuable to your life. You care deeply about the other person, but you don't disappear inside the relationship. You still have your own interests, your own friends, your own identity.

An obsessive relationship is different. Everything starts revolving around that one person. Your mood depends on them. Your decisions depend on them. Your sense of self depends on them. The relationship no longer supports your life. Your life starts supporting the relationship.

Running can follow exactly the same pattern:

A) The Committed Runner
The committed runner trains consistently, cares about improvement, and sets goals and works hard toward them.

But they understand something important: running is part of their life, not the whole of it. If they get injured, they are disappointed, but they adapt. If family needs them, they adjust their schedule. If work becomes demanding for a period, they accept that training may temporarily take a back seat.

They enjoy the process, but their self-worth does not depend on the next race result, and their life does not serve running — running serves their life.

For the committed runner, running is just one of the things that makes life richer.

B) The Obsessed Runner
The obsessed runner often starts with good intentions: they discover running and fall in love with it. Then slowly, almost without noticing, running becomes more than an activity — it becomes an identity.

Missing a workout causes guilt. Rest days feel uncomfortable. Injuries create panic. Conversations constantly return to running. Family events become obstacles to training. Race results determine mood.

Running no longer provides freedom — it starts demanding loyalty. And life gradually becomes something that exists to support running.

Ironically, the person who began running to improve their life may end up making their life revolve around running.

The line between commitment and obsession is easy to cross because it usually happens slowly.

There is one interesting side of running obsession: the Abbott World Marathon Majors.

These races are wonderful events. They inspire people, create unforgettable memories, and motivate thousands to stay active. There is nothing wrong with wanting to run them (I should know. I have my own dreams involving a Six Star Medal).

But let's be honest for a moment.

A marathon is still 42.2 kilometers. The distance is exactly the same whether you run it in Boston, Berlin, Chicago, New York, Sydney, London, Tokyo, or around your local lake while being attacked by mosquitoes and wondering why you signed up for this hobby in the first place.

Yet many runners are willing to spend enormous amounts of money on flights, hotels, merchandise, medals, jackets, and branded memorabilia.

Why? Because humans don't just buy experiences. We buy meaning.

Sometimes that meaning is worth every cent. Sometimes we should pause and ask whether we are collecting meaningful experiences or collecting symbols.

Because this distinction matters. One creates memories. The other creates consumption.


And here comes my coaching advice if you want to make sure your running adventure is not turning into an obsession.

Every now and then, ask yourself these questions:

- If I couldn't run for three months, who would I be?
- Can I take a rest day without guilt?
- Do the people closest to me benefit from my running, or suffer because of it?
- Does running make my life bigger or smaller?
- Am I pursuing health, or am I chasing approval?
- Would I still run if nobody could see my race photos, medals, Strava posts, or marathon jackets?

The answers may reveal more than your training log ever will.

Running is one of the best tools I know for building a great life. But the goal is not to become obsessed with running. The goal is not even to become a runner.

The goal is to become a healthy, capable, fulfilled human being who happens to run.

Running may be a great tool to build your future, but it is still a tool. A hammer is a useful and trustworthy building tool as well. You just don't want to become a hammer collector who forgets to build the house.

Running should support your life, not replace it.

Run hard, dream big, sign up for races that excite you. Chase personal bests. Chase marathon stars if that's your thing. Collect memories from places you'll still be talking about twenty years from now.

Just remember why you started.

Most of us didn't start running because we wanted to become runners. We started because we wanted to become healthier, stronger, happier, more capable versions of ourselves.

Running should help us build that life. It should never become a substitute for living it.

Trust me, I am not writing this from a position of complete innocence. 😅

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