Category: Blog
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All by myself- befriending loneliness
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” Jean-Paul Sartre Loneliness seems to be a dirty word. I’ve noticed when someone talks about it, they often use hush tones as if they are confessing to something shameful. And yet I think all of us feel lonely at times. I know I have and…
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Dream a little dream
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” Eleanor Roosevelt And so, it’s another new year (is it just me or is January 1st coming around quicker and quicker these days)? This time of year can often inspire us to take stock of our lives, where we are and maybe where we…
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Beyond control
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” John Lennon (song lyric from Beautiful Boy) I recently found myself in a tricky situation. In both my personal and professional life, things had taken an unexpected and dramatic turn. And worst of all, they were completely outside of my control. Someone else…
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Fearful attraction
“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” Douglas Coupland, author During this Halloween season, I got to wondering about why we seem to gain pleasure from scaring ourselves. For example, to mark past Halloweens, one of my friends sat down to a marathon…
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Got to be perfect?
‘If I waited for perfection…I would never write a word.” Margaret Atwood, writer. “Name your worst trait?” The interviewee had this one already prepped. They cleared their throat and announced, “I’m a perfectionist. Definitely my worst trait. I just can’t leave something alone until I’ve got it just right”. The interviewee grins to themselves. Nailed…
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Stuck in a rut
We hopefully return from our Summer breaks feeling refreshed and renewed. Full of new ideas and hopes for our future. But Monday morning comes around, the hectic diary kicks in, the emails start coming and we quickly settle back into our old routines. The same old, same old. The classic Groundhog Day. Our Summer dreams…
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My 2019 Summer reading
The Summer holiday season is finally upon us (yeah!), and one of my favourite ways to recharge those all important human batteries is to get down to some serious reading. And so I’d like to share with you some of the books that will be tempting me this holiday. I hope it inspires. Happy holiday everyone!…
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To the rescue
“We don’t need another hero. We don’t need to know the way home.” Tina Turner Batman, Tarzan, James Bond, Wonder Woman the list goes on and on. Not only are these examples of hero archetypes but also fit the descriptions of a classic rescuer. And we can often find ourselves in a similar like role (less…
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Regrets revisited
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” James Joyce “I don’t want you to do something you might regret”. We hear that a lot. Be it in movies, books, TV soaps or in real life. It got me thinking what’s so wrong with regrets? Aren’t they inevitable? Why is it always said “no regrets” (this phrase is…
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Time to grow up?
“If you act like an adult when you’re a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life” Walt Disney “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing” George Bernard Shaw We’re often told (by our parents and our society at large) that…
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