Howdy Gen Xer It’s time to have a chat you and I. Apparently we are the lost generation, stuck between the Baby Boomers and (OMG, can I like say it?) the Millennials. Our generation saw the rise of free love, anti-war, feminism, MTV and excessive greed on wall street. Fast forward forty years from the 80’s […]
Continue readingTo date, 2016 has been the year where many great musical superstars have died leaving millions of fans shocked and devastated. Two such artists are David Bowie who passed on 10 January and Prince who passed on 21 April. Apart from the wonderful music both men created, they harnessed the power of self-reinvention and continually […]
Continue readingForty-eight days ago, I broke my right ankle and last week I received the go ahead from my doctor to start walking again. This was not a walk upon the water moment but rather a struggle as I worked with the physiotherapist to place one foot in front of the other. I immediately felt so […]
Continue readingHave you noticed how often you experience resistance from others, and possibly yourself, when you are making changes? How misery really loves company. If you have implemented changes in your life, which bring you contentment and joy there are always those who want to drag you backwards. Suddenly you feel like a fish out of […]
Continue readingThere is one disease we all have suffered from at some stage of our lives, and that’s the disease of procrastination. We all do it. For some of us it’s a temporary state of being, for others a lifestyle. We put off the things we say we will do. We make a decision, to either […]
Continue readingIn a recent conversation with my friend and colleague Katrina Bourke in Australia, we touched on a very important topic of how we often are in a state of comparing ourselves to others. How we look at other people and see them as being better or worse than we are. More often than not, we […]
Continue readingI live in a very beautiful area in Germany and I have the joy of being able to look out of my office window every day, if I choose. I see my neighbourhood, my stone garden, and the gardens of my neighbours. In the distance are some low lying hills that add a lovely perspective […]
Continue readingShe sat across from me chatting like old friends, which is what we are. Although we had not seen one another for two years we both remarked that, although many miles separate us, there was no distance between us. We picked up the conversation exactly where we had left off. We were talking about my life […]
Continue readingRecently I have been routinely and summarily defeated at board games by my soon to be five year old neighbour, Noah. I have written about this little guy before in 4 Tips for Powerful Conversations and the truth is I just love this little kid. So a few weeks ago, we went out for coffee […]
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