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The 31st October looms ahead of us. For a while, the date has coincided with another event of national importance, confusion, and bafflement. In a week’s time, the mountain of rotting pumpkins we’ll see overflowing in tips, and tipping the lids of black bins, will provide a visual metaphor for my personal opinions on this […]
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This week I heard a wonderful talk by Julie Keir on mental health. It was full of wonderful vulnerability and touching honesty as well as very useful insights; a lady who certainly knew her stuff. As I sat listening to Julie outlining behaviours and patterns of thinking that we all carry, she alluded to the
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A: To sit on her 21 eggs! True story! We’ve just spent two weeks chicken-sitting for our neighbours. After quite a few previous stints of collecting the eggs and shutting the three dears up at night, we were starting to feel like pros. That was until Dark Chocolate (our name for the biggest one) didn’t
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One of my first memories of being on a big stage was of sharing a piano stool with my big sister at the Burton Music Festival, messing up our duet and calling down to the adjudicator, “Can we start again please?”. It was my fault – much to the annoyance of my sister, I hadn’t
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What’s top of your long term to-do-list? Sorry, that’s a bit 18th Century. (Click here to see Benjamin Franklin’s list.) Let’s rephrase that to: ‘What’s on your bucket list?‘ No, that’s too 2007. Let’s go with: ‘What are your #goals?‘ There are 75.7M posts for this one and they’re full of #motivation #nevergiveup and #balance.
Who is really #winning as a result of your #goals? Read More »
