Three years ago, I started a journey. I took my first steps full of trepidation, wondering how they would be received. Slowly I grew in confidence while all the time searching for the right thing to say. I knew, right from the start, that I was meant to do this. It was in my blood [...]

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  What are you waiting for? Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You will never be younger than you are today. Imagine – at the end of 2008 you’ll be a year older. In 2018 you’ll be ten years older than you are right now. There has never been a [...]

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It’s been a big day and I’m thinking it might be time to pop a cork on a cold bottle of bubbles tonight. This morning, we launched the lastest edition of The Calm Space – our sixth edition! This month, we’re talking about Dreams… and I am loving the incredible variety of ideas and perspectives [...]

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ahhh, [...]

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  No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place ~Zen Saying No snowflake ever falls in Brisbane, but that’s not the point. I’m thinking about the new year. January and an impending holiday does that. I plan to do nothing. Relax. Sit. Enjoy. Unwind. Free the mind. My inbox has been flooded this past week [...]

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Why do you celebrate Christmas? What do you celebrate at Christmas? With my life pared back to bare bones during our renovation and narry a bauble in sight, let alone a tree or piles of beautifully wrapped gifts, I find those two questions popping into my mind. When you take away the tree, when you [...]

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I don’t believe in time “management”. Every single person on this planet has the same number of nanoseconds in their day as every single other human being on this planet. So how come some are always complaining about not having enough time, and others just get on with it? We cannot “manage” time – we [...]

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus My eldest son, Captain Scarlett, graduated from school last week. It seems only yesterday I was leaving him for his first day at school. That morning where he said ‘bye Mum!’, and sat, entranced by his teacher and oblivious [...]

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose [...]

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Since I was three years old, October 15 has always been about my brother’s birthday (Happy B’day Mark!) but this year, it’s also about something bigger, more all encompassing (although, of course, no more important ;- ) I like to start my week with joy. Filling Mondays with precious inspiration helps the week start the [...]

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