September 10, 2009
When my memory first started to disintegrate I panicked. Not because of what it might mean (dementia? alzheimers?) but because I had relied so much on it and didn’t know how to do without it. Since then, Ive been studying the process in myself and in the people around me. I’ve arrived at some conclusions – some ridiculously obvious – which I’m passing [...]
August 4, 2009
What is it with the world of work, corporates and organisations? The words passion and passionate are slapped on anything from IT models to supermarket products. Emotion or emotional, however, produce a corporate reaction like a scalded cat.
Several things strike me about this.
One: both reactions are emotional ones, thus creating an amusing irony.
Two: passion is being systematically [...]
July 20, 2009
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to how to be positive. I’ve now got some kind of handle on gratitude as the way to stay positive. The next thing is how to be grateful without being Pollyanna or thankful without having to go to church and sing praises. Here’s how.
I’ve just finished an article [...]
July 15, 2009
I went away on holiday, then stuff happened and in the process of that I lost my blog-voice. Sorry I’ve been silent.
This is exactly what happens with my diary writing, with going to the gym, regular exercising, diets. There’s something about regularity that my personality jibs at. I think it makes me feel nailed down [...]
May 18, 2009
I don’t believe that I’m lucky. I regard competitions, lotteries and the fall of dice with a dubious eye, never believing that I have any chance of winning. I feel I have to do more; that I must work for it and earn good fortune. So I leave well alone.
However, I see with my own eyes that [...]
April 27, 2009
I’ve just watched Seth Godin’s video on ‘This is broken’ (go to Seth Godin’s Blog and search the entries for this title). I wish I could give you the right address to click on, but I can’t.
It’s not Important or World Shaking and it won’t tell you much you don’t know, but he’s good [...]
For years I struggled with the concept of meditation. I never did get past the first principle of emptying the mind. Then, when I was training as a coach, I suddenly got it. It’s not nearly as difficult as I thought and you don’t have to sit cross-legged in a silent room.
For anyone who has the [...]
No, not as dramatic as it seems. Last week, someone bashed into my (perfectly) parked car in Otley, leaving me with a scuffed bumper, a mangled wheel and flat tyre. There was a note on my windscreen with the registration number of the other car and the time. No phone number, so I imagine it was left by a passer-by.
I [...]
April 20, 2009
I started off being so impressed with Seth Godin’s blog. Now I’m not so keen. Firstly, his blog about the ‘new’ marketing – first find ten people, then they will spread the word and do it all for you. Hmm.! Haven’t small businesses been doing that for some time, along with other marketing methods? And [...]
April 2, 2009
In the ‘breathalysed!’ blog, I generalised. I suggested that in this country we generally don’t have to make notes on what we do in case we have to defend ourselves later. Twenty years ago, this breezy assertion and smug attitude would have made me furious. I’m a white, middle-aged, middle-class woman who listens to Radio 4 and [...]