On Saturday my family and I spoke via Skype video to our dear friends in the UK. They’re visiting next month and we thought it would be good for the children to all speak and see each other first as they have never met. I was shepherding the conversation with phrases such as, “Ask about X”, [...]
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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 [...]
An open loop is something which is pulling on your attention. I have a few from 2009 relating to Quantum Gardener which I will close today lest they fester and end up consuming more and more of my time. 50 book challenge (2009) In 2008 I successfully read 50 personal and self improvement books in a [...]
In July 2008 I began the daily habit of selecting something I was grateful for and noting it in my diary. Gratefulness is one of the most powerful emotions we can have and for me the daily habit of reflecting was a moment of quiet and stillness as the world rushed around me. My experience of being [...]
Over the last two weeks I’ve been heavily involved in home maintenance on some of our home computers. This has included replacing hard drives, re-installing multiple operating systems and reconfiguring wireless networks. The exercise highlighted to me the importance of dealing with breakdowns. Now, I’m sure for most people the word breakdown has a negative [...]
What are you thinking?
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 [...]