It’s not that stuffing your face with a chocolate-filled chocolate-covered doughnut is the issue. It’s the fact you hardly noticed that you were eating it.

Sense and feel everything, experience life. Take your time and smell the roses can mean put the phone down and enjoy the doughnut, or don’t buy a cheap bottle of wine and down it; buy the most expensive bottle you can afford and then actually enjoy it.

Be conscious of what you’re doing each and every moment of each and every day…I know, ya right; are you fucking kidding me! I’m never a fan of absolutes. But just because you can’t do it all the time doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to do it.

Perfection is overrated. It’s amazing what we can achieve with small changes. Especially if the change is high impact. So have the doughnut, have the glass of wine…but actually experience it. Notice the texture, the flavour, the smell…notice it all.

Of course, this isn’t just about food or drink; it’s about how we live our lives. The number of things we do each day on autopilot, without thinking. If you don’t know what you’re doing then how can you improve? If you use a navigator as a metaphor, then peoples minds jump to journeys and voyages i.e. going somewhere else. But the first job of a navigator is to know where they are at the start of the journey…otherwise, they can’t navigate anywhere.

Get engaged with your life; see and experience where you are now and your inner navigator will help you find the way.