Maintaining Success Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford How often have you sat with friends or co workers and come up with a great idea to both work together and be successful? Recently I was watching the friends of a friend in a local pub. They […]
Grief
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom. Rumi Intense emotion Grief is that inner sense of longing, a sense of feeling incomplete caused by the absence of something or someone significant from […]
How do I Find Meaning in my Work?
How Do I Find Meaning In My Work? I often am asked the question; “How do I find meaning in my work?” This happens to all of us at some point in our lives, sometimes even on a regular basis – we look around at ourselves, our job, and how we are spending our time, […]
Helping Others
Helping Others Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life. Arnold Schwarzenegger The dynamics of helping people, and in turn allowing ourselves to be helped […]
Being Positive
Being Positive “When you’re smilin’ keep on smilin’ The whole world smiles with you And when you’re laughin’ oh when youre laughin’ The sun comes shinin through” Louis Armstrong Self Help Seminars How many of you have attended a self help / positive thinking seminar, or read The Secret, or are applying principles of positive thinking? […]
The Freedom To Be Yourself
The Freedom to be Yourself – Have you ever noticed that everyone but you seems to have their “act together”- that you look into others perfection and see your own miserable self reflected right back at you, then in a cacophony of safe insecurity you hit your bottom, bounce, and present that brave face, that […]
Seeing Through “Hype”
Seeing Through “Hype” All through history, masses of people have been lead, slave like, by charismatic and or eloquent people to do or change things that the charismatic or eloquent people want changed. In most cases this action goes contrary to what is both logical and in the interests of the people being lead or […]
Meditation
Meditation Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. Diana Robinson Have you ever found yourself gazing out of a window letting a daydream subside to a point of nothing – a time of no thoughts at all? That is a natural meditation! Simplistically, there are two types of […]
Alone
Alone “…there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.” Charles Dickens Wake up early, rush through ablutions, possibly have breakfast or a cup of tea or coffee, sit for […]
Adding value to your life
Adding value to your life Here is an interesting concept! The only purpose we have in life is to add value… I have been toying with the idea of the meaning of life – heavy philosophical stuff you may think, but a perfectly natural occurrence or all of us, and I have observed that the […]
