To me, writers cramp is when your brain goes into painful spasms trying to write something meaningful, worthwhile and brilliant. Beginner writers may recognise the symptoms… I’ve been getting these cramps lately. Today, I have written about my remedy… Writers Cramp – Tossing Out the Old Rules and Expectations – at Joyful, Jubilant Learning. Please [...]

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A quick Saturday update: I just want to keep you in the loop. I can get so immersed in the changes happening around me (I am the queen of reinvention, after all) that I forget I haven’t told you what is happening, and it is not my intention to leave you wondering what the heck [...]

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What is so special about today? Today is the first day of the rest of your life… Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Marie Beyon Ray As another week begins [...]

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The ref has blown the whistle – it’s half time! Time for a break, be it winter (cold and blustery, here and now) or summer (my friends in the northern hemisphere) before we go back for the second half of the game/year. Time to huddle and work out the game plan for second-half. In the [...]

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Once upon a time, I read voraciously. It wasn’t unheard of for me to read a couple of books a week, fitted in between kids and work and house and marriage and all that goes into a busy life. But that was before a) I started my own business, b) that business gave me a [...]

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Leah has challenged me to share why I blog. It was too big an answer to leave in a comment on her post. So here are some of my thoughts about why I write a blog… It started out because Leah challenged me to write a blog. Only, the writing isn’t really a challenge for [...]

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Over at Joyful, Jubilant Learning (a community I am proud to be a part of) Terry Starbucker has published his Rapid Fire Learning for the month of May. I find the process of sitting down and thinking about what I have learned really interesting. Our lives get so busy, so full of the everyday stuff, [...]

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Welcome! I am thrilled, excited, amazed, overjoyed, and awed … (hmmm, too over the top?) OK. I am happy to introduce to you the new look for The Clearing Space. Not only is it a new look, there is plenty of reinventing happening behind the scenes here as well. All will be revealed in good [...]

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Syncronicity is one of those things you don’t go looking for – it sneaks up in front of you and then, bam!, it hits you right between the eyes. There has been a lot of syncronicity in my life lately. I don’t really know what to put it down to except a ‘quickening’… that point [...]

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One cannot do right in one area of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another; Life is one indivisible whole. – Gandhi I have been so full of fear about what success might do to my life and my family that I have been holding back. Afraid to go for it. Afraid [...]

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