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Are the doors closing before they’ve opened?

BLOG - Are the doors closing before they've opened? Are you afraid that just as the doors were opening for you and work opportunities were presenting themselves - you were seeing a bright future opening up before you, after years of hard work and study - the doors...

Taking on a challenge!

Taking on a challenge!

Watching the Rio Olympics shows up the courage needed for the athletes to compete at the highest level.    The athletes have to make a real commitment to the training which is TOUGH.   And then they have one day or one event in which to prove...

Are attitudes cultural or habitual?

Just seen the David Hockney exhibition - 82 Portraits at the Royal Academy. Fascinating!   The colours are fabulous, really vibrant.   The brush strokes free and wild.  But what struck me was that nearly all the women were sticking their chins in the air and shoving...

Externalising everything!

At one time memory was highly valued.   The Greeks and Romans had many techniques to enhance memory.   They had memory palaces ad infinitum.  They told epic sagas that lasted for days from memory.   There were very few books so committing information to memory was...

Exploring different spaces

  Taking risks, going into unknown spaces - both exciting and terrifying.    The rewards can be fantastic - the risks huge but worth it. Being submerged in sound as if experiencing the creation of the music itself in process, doesn't often present itself - but it...

Four things you need to know about you!

Let's look at a typical week and see what happens: 1. It’s Monday morning. You're about to set off for work. A feeling of 'glum' comes over you. A long week stretches ahead of you before the next weekend. So let's get into work mode. Are you hunching your shoulders?...

Synchronicity is the thing!

Have you ever had the experience of walking along a foreign street in some exotic country where you know no-one, and suddenly there crossing the street in front of you – you see someone you haven’t seen in years? This has happened to me so many times.   Once in Paris...

To Blog or not to Blog…

To blog or not to blog, that is the question? Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and, by opposing, end them….. I sit here pondering this question. Whether I blog (or not) is...

Important people in my life

There have been four important people in my life. Why are they important – because they all changed my life in some way. The first was my headmaster at the local primary school.    I went there at the age of nine or ten having been unexpectedly taken from my...

ZINGING ON A GREAT DAY!

I’m really zinging today. It’s cold and miserable outside despite being the 1st June - where has that 20 degree sunshine of three days ago gone? But I’m still basking in it. I know where I want to be, what I want to happen and the way is clear to the destination.    ...