Category: Blog posts

  • What’s Your Life About?

    If you had to say what the ‘theme’ for your life was, what would it be? For too many of us, it is ‘misery’, ‘working hard’, ‘getting through the day’ – and largely because we don’t pay attention to what we WANT our life to be about and take steps to make that happen. So…

  • The Heart of the Matter

    So tell me what you want, what you really, really want (and then PLEASE forgive me for quoting the Spice Girls!) Do you know what you want? And why do you want that thing? Keep asking why do you want that, and why do you want that, and why, why, why until you get to…

  • Paddle Your Own Canoe. Your Way

    I was just reading a newsletter from Chris Guillibeau of The Art of Non Conformity, and he got me thinking. He was talking about going against conventional wisdom. For example, Henry Ford said “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said “faster horses.”” Yet ‘conventional wisdom’ says ask your customers what…

  • A Bit of Monday Fun: Random Thoughts

    I saw this over the weekend and it made me laugh a lot so thought I’d share it with you: Today’s Random Thoughts (not mine, but funny just the same!) 1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. 2. Nothing sucks more than…

  • Keep Seeking Your Passion

    I was having a clearout this weekend, and I came across a couple of courses I did back in the late 90’s – Positive Thinking and Journalism. I had a little chuckle to myself at the memories of these courses – I thought the positive thinking course was a bit thin, not that useful, but…

  • The Source of Disatisfaction

    I received this in a newsletter from Chris Guillebeau of the art of non-conformity “Dissatisfaction comes about from wanting something different but not being willing to take action toward achieving it.” Or as my teacher, Carole Dore, puts it “if you’re are paying attention to the sprouts (the ideas, the signs, the creative urges) and…

  • Working for the Dark Side

    Do you work on the side of light or on the side of Dark? The light side looks for what’s good, what’s working, what’s enjoyable, what’s fun, what’s right with life. The Dark side does the opposite – it looks for what’s bad, what’s broken, what’s terrible, what’s upsetting, what’s wrong with life. The news…

  • Ooh, That Was Fun!

    Yesterday I happened to be stuck in traffic on the M6. I was hot, I was hungry and I was moving at about 3 miles an hour. Plenty of reason to be peeved, eh? But then I looked across at a very angry chap in the outside lane who practically had steam coming out of…

  • Beach Speed

    On my weekly newsletter this week: I am…mellow. Surprisingly mellow. Annoyingly mellow! I have 1001 things to see, people to go, places to do. And there I am, sitting in the sun lounger for half the week watching starlings fly across a picture perfect blue sky. Mellowed out. Not ‘getting on with stuff’. I’ve come…

  • The Truth of You

    “I can’t tell you what your next action will be, but mine involved a full stop. I had to stop living unconsciously, as if I had all the time in the world. The love and good and the wild and the peace and creation that are you will reveal themselves, but it is harder when…