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The Archive
Welcome to the archive. Here you’ll find pages of life advice on personal values, emotional intelligence, relationships, finding purpose, and much more.
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The Two Dogs
This week I explore the legend of the two wolves inside of each of us. If you know the story I have a different take, and if its new too you – it has great power.
FEAR
At a dusty, outback, isolated Australian truck stop, two men leap out of their tent, preparing for the biggest fight of their lives.
Geldof Never Set Out To Be A Hero
Who knew that sitting down to watch the nightly news on an autumn Saturday night in 1984 would change the world in six months.
Even More Fast Three
Good things come in Three’s.. .so here we are the third and last of The Fast Three ( at least for the moment) tips and ideas that can impact your life. Lets Get Into It!
More FAST THREE
Life itself has three parts – birth, life and death. Our bankers ever afraid of fraud created a banker’s 3 with a flat “top” to stop it being changed into an eight. And for those of us who are religious in nature many religions have Triple Gods – The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost, in Christianity and the Hindu Trimurti with Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
So today again we have three fast, easy to read, potentially life changing ideas to ponder, raise questions and absorb or reject. You won’t be bored.
The Fast Three
Fast and Furious – Three Short Fast Bits to Change Your Life that pack a punch.
Wild Horses That Control Us
What can a new interpretation of that the old saying ” You Can Lead a Horse to Water” teach you about living a longer life.
Three Tragedies, A Laugh – Part 2
As a follow-up from last week, we complete our Three Tragedies and a Laugh. Four stories and ideas to reflect on. Three serious & one to laugh at ourselves. Here are the final two. This week we get the laugh…
Three Tragedies & A Laugh
PART ONE: Nolan Gandon sat on her lecture desk. She was not particularly beautiful – she was relatively short and somewhat round. Her feet dangled
I Love A Good Funeral
You can’t control whether history will remember you or not but you can control what it could remember.
How Many Summers Are Left?
If you are like many, you have been very keen to get that last year out of the way. Done and Dusted. Given it has been one of the years of your life, the one and only of its type – should it have been wished so quickly into the rear view mirror?
Meat Pie Friends
Relationships bring the most joy and the most sorrow. Are you looking in the wrong place for joy?
Pay Attention
Pay Attention: How to tell what lies ahead, what someone is thinking and what to do about it.
Forty-Eight Things I Learnt in 2020
2020 has been a very different year for all of us. Mostly unplanned. We adapted and here we are at the end of it. Did we learn anything of value? Here are forty-eight ideas that I gleaned from looking back over the last twelve months.
Time For Laughter – Its Christmas
Laughter makes everything better… what more can be said – Its Christmas Time. Make sure you click the image. Have a Great One.
Two Things to Change The World.
In a busy life it is often hard to see how one person can impact the world and people around us. Here are Two very simple things we can all do to make impact. To influence the world in ways that express our values.
Gold Dust & Ashes
The past in a handful of ashes – there is not much left after the years. How do we turn it into gold?
