The gap separating fact from fiction is becoming increasingly blurred as technology transitions. It's becoming harder to believe what we can hear and more difficult to accept what we can see. Face value is no longer what we expect it to be. Those with specific agendas make the most noise and demand the lion's share … Continue reading Look, Listen and Learn
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Enough To Be Tough
Wounds run deep. The hurt we have suffered can very much determine the direction we take. More significantly, though, the pain we carry impacts on the value we place on ourselves. While the way the world around us sees and assesses us has its impact both emotionally and psychologically, the most harmful critic all too … Continue reading Enough To Be Tough
Pieces Of Peace
We're taught the importance of acceptance and forgiveness...leaving the past in the past...the need to move forward...the simple mantra of getting on with getting on. And - at least at a surface level - we can appear to have all those things under control. The problem is that there is more to us than presentation … Continue reading Pieces Of Peace
Linking With Thinking
All too often that which is most obvious is that which is least understood. There's an urge to find complication and restriction in the most simple of things. Should there be no blatant complication then it is easily created. One of the most neglected areas of basic existence is the importance of communication. We have … Continue reading Linking With Thinking
It’s Fine To Shine
In our rush to define and catergorise individuals, we do ourselves a great disservice. Society requires that we be one thing or another; that we believe one thing or another; and that we identify with one group or another. And we comply because we want to appear to be agreeable and we desire companionship. If … Continue reading It’s Fine To Shine
The Truth That Is Not
There is no shortage of information available. Anything we want to know can be researched. Facts, figures and opinions are freely available. So much is believable but how much of the information is factual? This is the century of concoction...a time when we have to question just about everything we see and hear. That means … Continue reading The Truth That Is Not
The Poetry Of Word’s Worth
The art of successful communication is a practiced art involving a number of factors, none of them simple. Forget or ignore one and the process is sure to fail. While it can be easy to talk it's much more complicated to think about the words we intend using before giving them voice. But words are … Continue reading The Poetry Of Word’s Worth
What? Me? Where?
It's normal to occasionally feel that the space we are occupying at any given point in time is not the place we are meant to be. It's not unusual to experience what is know as imposter syndrome...to question ourselves and the life we are leading...to doubt our skills and abilities and the way we are … Continue reading What? Me? Where?
What Is And What Was
We live with the inevitability of change and that can be upsetting. Even those situations and circumstances that feel familiar have varied from what they were into what they are. Expectations are sometimes met, given time, but there are no certainties or guarantees. As individuals we have one of two choices...accept change or refuse it. … Continue reading What Is And What Was
Plan To Plan A Plan
Not everything goes to plan. The reason is that everyone has their own plan. Even those who have no plan have, by default, a plan to do nothing. For a plan to succeed many factors have to link, co-incide or intersect. More often than not a plan will defeat itself before it is able to … Continue reading Plan To Plan A Plan
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