What does happiness mean to you? Is it that buzzing, excitable, infectious, jump out of your skin kind of experience? Or is it the safe, nurtured, stable and peaceful state? Is it a state? Is it an experience? If you were offered a permanent version of happiness (by your definition) in the understanding that you […]
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Any moment now three small people are just about to bust through my front door. The school teachers are done for the day, the bus has made it’s delivery and the complaints department has opened. I’m home. I love Mondays, now I have my fancy schmancy office I no longer have to work at home.
During my month without alcohol I’ve been trying hard, really hard to form some new habits. At the beginning of the month I decided to think less about the booze and more about two things – exercise and writing. As the month progressed I started to learn more about the use of habits as a
There’s nothing quite like those first few moments as the plane builds speed down the tarmac and whooshes up into the air. There is no escape. Work trip = locked in. Anything prior to that moment COULD (in theory) be reversed. A last moment call from home with any manner of news COULD mean a
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Have you ever given something up? Maybe not forever, just a little while Have you taken stock of your daily habits and realised that there is something in your life that may be controlling you, your thinking, your daily practices? Every now and then drinking can be like that for me. Because I’m not a
So, what do YOU eat when on the road? As I was writing only yesterday about belief systems, I’ve noted with glee (and sarcasm) that one of my long held beliefs is that the calories shoved into one’s gob while ‘one the road’ don’t count. In my family we refer to this phenomena as ‘travel
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Dear all, I’ve been very quite for a while as I sort through what Sam Cawthorn describes as a kairos (a moment a moment within a moment of drastic change, a moment that completely transforms your life). The following is a reflection of turning 40 and the (nearly) year that has followed. It’s pretty raw
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Let’s face it, sometimes life just delivers up shit. Sometimes it’s brought on by a series of choices we’ve made for ourselves, sometimes it just happens out of the blue. And even though some of us are a lot more on the masochistic side than others it’s highly unlikely that you’ll find many people walking
Turd sandwich anyone? Read More
I don’t know where this acronym FIGJAM actually came from but the first time I remember hearing it is in a movie that I saw in my youth… Was it Mel Gibson? Was it someone else, maybe you remember? Anyway? What I wish is that I took the acronym on board then and there, and