Today I want to invite you for a walk.
Do you notice all the changes since the vernal equinox?
Where I live, Midlands, UK, there is a vibrant yellow dance going on in nature right this very moment!
Join me and let’s experience it together: Continue Reading »
Do you feel trapped? Like totally trapped?
Maybe trapped in your past?
Or trapped in your circumstances?
Perhaps trapped in other people’s expectations?
Or trapped in your personal limitations and fears?
Do you feel like no one understands you?
Then today’s 7-minute therapy session is for you.
Let me introduce Brendon Burchard, who after surviving a near-fatal accident, developed his core teaching questions:
Therapy… What comes to your mind when you say this word?
For me personally, it is firmly associated with the word ‘years’.
As in years of therapy!
Somehow, while our modern world has managed to get faster and faster, the duration of therapeutic interventions has managed to stretch and keeps stretching…
I don’t know about you, but it does not seem right to me! Continue Reading »
Last weekend I watched a movie that I highly recommend you see:
The Intouchables (2011)
It is funny, emotional, serious, moving and totally enjoyable!
What more can I say apart from: ‘Please watch it!’
Here is the trailer:
So, you’ve opened this blog post and found a rather poor photograph and half a page of solid, black nothingness. There is a point to this, and it’s about finding the light at the end of a long, black tunnel. Allow me to explain.
I was in my home city of York, stuck in traffic and feeling sorry for myself. I’d just had the latest of three disappointments in as many weeks and was wondering if I could pick myself up enough to be a cheery presence at the leaving do I was on my way to.
Pondering these rather gloomy, negative thoughts and staring straight ahead at the back of a car I’d been looking at for nearly half an hour, I suddenly realised I was beneath an arch – Micklegate Bar – and there was literally light at the end of the tunnel. The unexciting image you can see above is that light.
I scrambled for my phone in an attempt to take a photo before the traffic began to move. I must have lurched as I took the photo, and found I’d taken a blurred, wonky photo of a ‘keep left’ sign. I tried again, and the traffic lights obligingly stayed red, as you can see from the resulting image.
The view you’ve just been looking at inspired me. I know it doesn’t look very inspiring, but to me it was a revelation and it changed my mood completely. Continue Reading »
