Browsing Posts tagged focus

Ever since I was young I’ve been fascinated by the idea that people could learn from books or spend all their life as scholars studying. Now I find I’ve become the very same. My personal mission statement of ten years ago stated, “I am a scholar of life”. What was an inkling then has become [...]

Today Matters John C. Maxwell. Center Street 2004, Hardcover, 336 pages, $6.49 Over the recent Christmas break my attention was taken by the simple and powerful idea that what we do today sets us up for the success of tomorrow. John C. Maxwell writes about the concept and his experience applying it to life in [...]

The Kennington Reservior, or Kenni Res as the locals call it, has suffered greatly under Australia’s persistent drought conditions. Evaporation lowers the lake level each day and at it’s worst much of the lake bed could be walked across. Recent Spring rain has filled the lake and this is something I’ve not seen for far [...]

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 [...]