Matt Mower has written about the virtues of always saying ‘no’ initially. Part of his post reads… Always say no initially. It’s a matter of leaving room to retreat. You can retreat from no to yes, and the person asking you to do something is happy. If you have to retreat from yes to no, [...]
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If you have read the “The Meaning of Liff” by Douglas Adams, you will know there are lots of meanings for which there are no words. How would you sum up a nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. Adams chose the word “Aberystwyth” based on a town [...]
Courtesy of David Gurteen comes this quote from Henry David Thoreau. Things do not change; we change. As we change the observer that we are, new worlds open to us.
A student recently wrote a letter to my local paper seeking advice on motivation. My life is at a turning point; I’ve finished VCE [Year 12] and am now faced with the question of what I want to do with my life…I’m interested to find out what people do to get, and stay, motivated. I [...]
Recent events in my life have forced me to focus on what is really important. I’m looking at a new business opportunity that will have me coaching full-time. With that has come a new sense of peace and reduction in pressure to complete certain self-appointed projects. I have become more selfish (in the true sense [...]
I really connect with the quote by E. M. Forster as posted on the Gurteen Knowledge Log. I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. I’d like to think syncronicity has [...]
This is a photo of Charlton. He and I have been together ever since my wife gave him to me when we were first going out together. That’s now about 13 years ago. He travels with me when I’m on my own and my family is at home. Charlton and I have been to London, [...]
