Yesterday morning, with a full to-do list and a busy, busy week, I discovered my laptop would not connect to the internet. The wireless is definitely acting up and I’ve tried everything I know short of throwing the thing out the window. For the sake of my own stress levels, I’ve shut it down and [...]

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Once again, I’m learning lessons about how my mind works. When you stop doing something you’ve been doing for as long as you can remember, (in my case, working as an employee), you fully expect to free up these huge gobs of time every week. And in those enormous hours, you’d be justified in thinking [...]

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Sometimes what seems like a disaster bummer big disappointment, can turn into a night to treasure. It all depends on your attitude. We booked to go to Celine Dion‘s one Brisbane performance of her Taking Chances World Tour. G booked the night through his club, which included a beautiful three-course dinner and luxury coach from [...]

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This is one of my favourite sayings: peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. Today, as I was hanging washing on the line, I decided it [...]

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The tinsel and wrapping paper have hit the shelves of our department stores! It’s mid-October, and that can only mean One Thing… (cue Beethoven’s fifth… da da da dum) Christmas is on it’s way once again! In fact, the little widget I have on my homepage tells me that Santa is due to visit in [...]

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We’re told to think positive, to change our thoughts and change our life. And it sounds easy when we read it. Only, sometimes the reality isn’t that easy. When we wake in a sweat in the middle of the night; or when we have that awful feeling in the pit of our stomach; or when [...]

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Do you wish you had a ‘Pause Button’ that you could use when things get chaotic – one that would pause your life until you felt ready to face it again? Is your life so busy that you often feel like yelling “stop the world, I want to get off!”? Some days, do you feel [...]

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We’re stuck. It seems that life is like one big clogged drain pipe at the moment. Only a trickle can get through. Have you ever had times like this? When, despite all your best efforts, everything takes an inordinate amount of effort to get happening? Everything that could go wrong, does. And delays abound. Each [...]

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When you change the way you think, you’ll discover that your sadness, fear, frustration and any other troubling feelings cannot last. Even nature can’t create a storm that never ends. – Wayne Dyer Whenever I am in the midst of one of those terrible storms in my life – you know, where everything seems to [...]

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It isn’t just about getting fit or losing weight! When we exercise regularly, we know we feel better. That good feeling is not just because we’re feeling virtuous that we’ve actually got up off our behind… I know I feel better about myself, I feel more energetic (and I feel virtuous:-) when I take the [...]

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