Maybe its just me or maybe it’s the combination of hot weather and light evenings but the past week has been a haze of business; potty training a daughter, decorating a newly refurbished loft room ready for the arrival of an imminent guest and all the while squeezing in work, […]
Having a tough time? It may be useful to take a moment to reflect on the following, 90% of your long term happiness is predicted not by the external world but by the way your brain processes the world ….that is according to psychologist Shawn Achor who studies these things. […]
I wonder if like me, you observed over the festive season that many people were glued to their phones, i-pads and the such like. It may be the seductive nature of the latest technology that leads us into a state of perpetual gadget use or it may be the reverse; […]
Most of us have habits that we are trying to break or healthier ones that we are trying to establish. It’s led me to think about this ‘habit thing’ and how long it might take for an action to become part of one’s daily routine. Ok, so im not new […]
If you have ever had the pleasure of watching a skylark launch itself and ascend ever upwards into the sky you might well have marvelled at the gusto and total commitment on display. The poem The commitment of the lark written by Pete Armstrong brilliantly captures this moment and considers what […]
Until this weekend I’d never fully ‘got’ birthdays or understood what they really represented (other than a good excuse for a party). That all changed at 3am this Saturday morning when I was awoken by my daughter screaming. For the next hour we tended to her every need and I […]
It’s been a very odd year in the sense that something I’ve been exploring for a decade or so appears to have suddenly hit the wider public consciousness. I suspect that a few years back if I’d shared my conviction that sitting and observing my breath was nourishing to […]
Ed Stafford, adventurer extraordinaire, was interviewed on Radio 4’s Saturday Live about his recent 60 day stay on a deserted island. His top tip for survival was to draw upon advice given to him by an Aboriginal friend; that when feeling overwhelmed he should retreat to a safe place (in Ed’s […]
