Some time ago now (very thankfully!), I experienced on a daily basis an inner struggle between what the ‘experts’ said and what I felt I needed to do. Too often, I’d chose the experts over myself, and every time I’d discover I had been wrong…
Running from one near-catastrophe to another, doing nothing but putting out fires. It’s the way some businesses try to operate, and some people. I lived that way for years, until my body gave out and I was – very thankfully – forced to find a…
A friend, Julia, and her partner were doing some badly needed house cleaning. Julia is pretty tidy; her partner isn’t. When it came to cleaning the cupboards, Julia wanted all dust removed; her partner didn’t really care and said so. Julia got triggered and felt…
“It isn’t the work that’s an issue for me. There’s a lot of it, but I can handle it. It’s the people!” I remember saying that any number of times when I became a manager, suddenly thrust into being responsible for mess-ups that weren’t of…
“If you believe you deserve better, you will create better in yourself.” This quote, attributed to Dr. Phil McGraw, might strike you as obvious. Or it might seem simplistic. Or pie-in-the-sky – a new age-ism that some people say to themselves in the mirror when…
“Enlightenment” is a term I hear used a lot these days. It’s often in the context of gaining some kind of spiritual excellence. I do wonder about this: it comes close to smacking of superiority and so I’m suspicious of it. So, is this something…