Following on from yesterday when I talked about friends and sisters moving half way across town to improve their lifestyle… I would like to throw around some more ideas about this subject of designing your lifestyle to fit your life.  Some examples that come to mind: a colleague of mine has this week again converted [...]

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My dear friend did it.  Now my sister is doing it. They both left, moved, abandoned me…. Well, it isnt that bad.  It just felt a little like it. You see, they both lived within coo-eee of me here in the outer western suburbs of Brisbane – their children were a quick bike ride away [...]

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It’s a common complaint.  "I’m just so tired".  "I just dont seem to have any energy". And for women who do too much, it’s epidemic. We just never seem to have enough energy to get us through our days.  So what can we do about it? I was having a low energy week this week.  [...]

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Does the very word ‘laundry’ make you shudder? I have known many women who live in fear and trepidation of their laundry, and of ever gaining control over the mountains of washing, folding, and ironing that grow in ever increasing piles in one of the smallest rooms (or cupboards) in our homes… Laundry is an [...]

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We are still talking about potholes in our lives – those holes that appear as a symptom of some bigger issue – and that we often patch up instead of dealing with completely. Today I am thinking about paperwork.  I am in the midst of a big reorganisation in my home office, and I think [...]

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This is the start of my series of posts on the potholes in our life. Have you ever had a health niggle that you didnt have time to deal with?  Have you ever patched a health niggle over and over again – without getting to the cause of the trouble? Are you ‘too busy’ to [...]

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You know how some roads get a weak spot and are forever getting full of potholes?  Maybe in a low lying area, where water underneath the road weakens it and the holes form?  And how the road maintenance crew come around and fill in the hole with a spade full of bitumen and stamp it [...]

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