Live your true life
Hugh Blair, a Scottish minister of religion in the 1700s wisely wrote: “Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come,…
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It’s a word we use all the time without thinking. It’s so common now that we think it’s just part of the standard, accepted vocabulary used in any social, professional and personal situation. F. I. N. E. How are you? …
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It’s OK to say no. We all know that. There are so many articles around telling us to free ourselves from obligations that others have placed on us, or about saying no in order to save our sanity when we…
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It’s winter here in Australia. In Melbourne, where I am right now, it’s particularly cold. And now is the perfect time of year to do some major pruning in the garden and to plant any new trees that I want…
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I remember a friend of mine saying that nobody does anything voluntarily unless they get something out of it. That even people who appear to give their time, their money or their services selflessly, even they are motivated by getting…
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We all have triggers that can send us off into thinking or behaving negatively, don’t we? I’m fairly certain that if I asked you what yours were, you might take a moment to think about it, but you’d probably be…
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If you’ve done enough air travel, you’d have heard this instruction on every trip. You know that if you don’t look after yourself first, you won’t be in any position to help anyone else. That’s all well and good on…
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You are special. Do you know that? I mean, really know that? So many of us have been brought up to reject such statements about ourselves. We are taught that it’s wrong to love ourselves or to see ourselves as…
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If I want to get somewhere by car I need to make sure it is sufficiently fueled with petrol. I’m not going to get far if I fill the tank up with vinegar. If I want to have enough energy…
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My sister and brother-in-law are in the process of building a house which happens to be a few doors down from me. It’s been taking a while as they’ve been building it themselves. And by a while, I mean a…
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