I first heard this quote when I was starting out in business. At the time I was about a year into running my own business and had bought into the cultural brainwash that making a success of working for yourself meant ‘being on’ 24/7. In truth, the concept that I could be more successful by […]
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Most people postpone their victory til the final destination is reached. We set targets for ourselves, e.g. at New Year or on our Birthday: next year is going to be different and we identify goals we want to meet or changes we want to achieve and we start out on making them happen. Sometimes the
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Recently I did a 10-day meditation series with the wonderful Peter Harper, aka The Drunken Monk. The series was based around Zen Koans, short riddles or puzzles that Zen Buddhists use during meditation to help them unravel greater truths about the world and about themselves. The koans can seem a bit paradoxical and in my
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Lots has been written about gratitude and how powerful it is as a practice for enhancing our lives and wellbeing. If you’ve been on any of my programmes, you’ll know how much I encourage people to engage with it as a means of building resilience and shifting perspective. I’ve also shared with many of you
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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
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
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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
LEARN FROM A RIVER Read More »
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
We’ve just had a holiday weekend in Ireland which was hopefully an opportunity for many of you to unwind and connect with family and friends. I often think of August as a great opportunity to pause and refresh, often we’re in a holiday mode and there are still a few weeks to go before the
FINDING YOUR STRETCH Read More »
Many of us are largely housebound at the moment, perhaps cooped up with multiple generations all vying for access to limited resources like internet capability, screens and space for some private work or time alone. Others are feeling very isolated, living alone, working remotely and without the typical interactions normally achieved through work and social
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