Some of you may remember a hike I shared about doing in December 2019. For my level of fitness it was an ambitious hike (4 hours plus up a fairly steep incline) and the ascent being done in darkness! All part of my celebration of the winter solstice that year. I found it challenging and …
Fireby Judy BrownWhat makes a fire burn is the space between the logs,a breathing space.Too much of a good thing, too many logs packed in too tightcan douse the flamesalmost as surely as a pail of water would. So, building fires requires attentionto the spaces in between, as much as to the wood.When we are able to …
I’ve always loved the poem ‘Warning’ by Jenny Joseph: When I am an old woman I shall wear purpleWith a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer glovesAnd satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter… I always have a sense that Jenny’s …
It’s that time of year, the days are getting so much shorter, the weather is more inclement and if you’re anything like me the pull to “hibernate” now is strong. And while we humans don’t hibernate the way bears and squirrels do, in times of old we’d have allowed things to slow down markedly at …
I don’t know if it is because of lockdown or whether people always enjoy and respond to blogs that encourage being in nature and learning from the natural world? Either way, the feedback to all my blogs that have had natural themes in recent months has been very positive. So I wanted to give you …
I promised you all a blog on this topic a while back, after an acorn had literally dropped on my head on my own Wisdom Walk a few weeks ago. I’ve been mulling it over since and the essence of what I want to say is captured in this quote… Our ordinary mind always tries …
Don’t click away! You’re in the right blog! Yes, it’s me, writing about productivity and how to more successful in kinda managerial terms. This is a bit of a departure for me but I’m excited to share it with you because it is new learning that I’ve found very impactful personally and it’s something I …
This week’s blog is continuing our theme of exploring non linear ways of knowing and sourcing creative ideas and next steps for whatever we need assistance with. 2020 has been an eventful year! Almost certainly not eventful in the way most of us anticipated last January, with many events, from holidays to social and work …
I’ve been having some discussions with clients recently who tell me they are feeling stuck and would like some help in getting out of it! Left to our own devices, often when we are feeling stuck, our response is to ‘think harder’, i.e. we do what we always do, just more of it. The result …
Napoleon Hill, writing in the 1930s, coined the phrase Master Mind Group in his book Think and Grow Rich. He defined Master Mind groups as the “coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose”. While Hill’s research focused on people who had …
