Category: Blog posts

  • Disturbing the Water

    I went for a swim today, and once again was struck by the differences in the way people swim. Some have their own unique strokes that look enormously inefficient but get them up and down the pool faster than I can move! Some disturb the entire pool, thrashing through the water and in the process…

  • Strictly Come Dancing and Coaching

    Woohoo, my favourite tv show is BACK! Strictly Come Dancing…the show where random celebrities are taught to dance. I can’t tell you why I love it so, but love it I do! In fact, I’m enormously glad this year that the BBC iplayer is around, because I don’t have to stay in for the next…

  • MIA

    Hello lovely readers!!! I am sorry, I have been missing in action a lot this month – just busy busy busy! A million and one ideas which never got made into blog posts…what a waste!! The big highlight this week was the V festival in Staffs – Mud, Music, Rain, Sunshine, Mud, more Music and…

  • Museums of Poverty

    “One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.” — Muhammad Yunus founder of the Grameen Bank & 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate In an e-mail from Rebecca Fine of www.scienceofgettingrich.net I received this quote. Isn’t that the most wonderful idea? That our granchildren would not be able to see…

  • The House of 1000 Mirrors

    Long ago in a small, far away village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears…

  • Was That Worth Giving Up Your Peace For?

    I was reading a blog entry at http://blog.yourangelsmessage.com/2008/06/26/june-26-2008.aspx today and this question caught my eye “Was that worth giving up your peace for?” What has made you give up your peace today? What has made you angry, irritable, stressed, freaked out? Was it worth giving up your peace? For me, it was a lorry drifting…

  • I DID IT!!

    Last night at Toastmasters I did my 10th advanced level speech and I got my ‘Advanced Communicator – Bronze’ Award. Yay me! Woo hoooooo!! The purpose of this post is threefold: 1 – to big up myself 2 – to encourage you to big up yourself – seriously, it’s not arrogant to talk yourself up,…

  • Trust Your Creativity

    As you may know, I write a weekly newsletter – yesterday’s “Bit by bit by bit” I was delighted with when I first finished it. But on the last read through (when I had no time to re-write) I wasn’t as happy with it. Trusting my original creativity, I sent it anyway…and I have received…

  • Your ‘To-Do’ List vs Your Peace of Mind

    So, here I am, it’s after 5 on Friday afternoon, and I still have 2 hours minimum of work left on my ‘to do’ list. Hmmm…I think there is going to be stuff left undone this week! I have a very simple criteria to run by when I get to this point – will the…

  • Honouring Your Energy

    I had a very funny conversation with my mom this afternoon – I was saying that I was tired even before the weekend began…and I have a busy weeekend coming up! I expressed a bit of surprise that I was so tired, and she said ‘don’t forget, Tuesday was a tough day – you need…