Last week I was musing here about the importance of letting go control. How often are we are seeking to control the behaviour and responses of those around us? But in so doing, we are misplacing our responsibility. We can only take responsibility for ourselves and our own choices, not those of others. This is…
Summer calls for a wee breather…
The last few weeks have seen me musing here about some basic and essential human values.…respect, kindness, patience and honesty. And as I consider those values, I choose to apply them to myself and tell you that over the coming few weeks, I am taking a wee breather from regular musings here. Thinking about this…
How would your life be different?
How would your life be different if you STOPPED procrastinating? And I don’t mean tomorrow, I mean right now? This is the last in a wee series on procrastination, that sneaky and insidious thief that robs us of productivity and achievement and contributes to our sense of panic and overwhelm. We all do it (OK,…
How to live a proactive life.
How was 2020 for you? No, you have not read that wrong, nor have you done a Sleeping Beauty and slept throughout the entire year. A new year has begun, and a new decade. (unless you are a pedant like MB who believes the new decade only starts at the END of this year.…
Creativity born out of suffering (and what might be just what you need)
Creativity born out of suffering: how about that for a profound and esoteric opening? Last week I was musing about the creative potential from our sufferings of seeing things afresh, through a different frame – new perspectives, new insights, leading to growth and transformation. What suffering can you speak of in your own life? None…
So now what? How to live this extraordinary, ordinary life
We have recently been winding our way through a series covering a range of different life skills and character developments including being proactive, listening well, prioritising that which matters most including how to seek mutual benefit in relationships, and the importance of regular self renewal. If you read all the way through this recent series…
The habit of self renewal – or, letting our souls catch up
Self renewal. This habit is very close to my heart, even and especially as I am learning the importance of applying it. I wrote here a while ago about the need to have time to let our souls catch up, and this is the essence of Habit Number 7. Without appropriate time for renewal, in…
Getting back into the Habit: Number 6, Synergise
Here we are into January 2018. Christmas is well and truly over, the tree and trimmings are tidied away, and normal routines resume. Not much joy in this house about the return to school. And it’s FREEZING cold. Ho hum. Not a very cheery start. So let’s talk about something much more exciting: a mind…
A little reflective pulling together of the Habits for Advent
It’s a busy season of the year…no-one has time to read screeds and screeds on a blog. Advent is a time of waiting and preparation and anticipation. And we have been wending our way over these past weeks through some pretty challenging and potentially stop-in-your-tracks kind of habits. So – this week, a simple putting-it-all-together…
To really listen is to give a precious gift
We are well into Christmas season now, with all that entails. Everywhere we turn, we are swamped by advertisers and marketers seeking to encourage us to buy that perfect gift to give to the one we love. Or something along those lines. Interestingly, there has also been something of a backlash to the crazy, totally-over-the-top…