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Creativity: The Work of the Possessed?
I’ve had a month off business as usual with limited screen time. It’s been a time filled with family, holidays, nature and special moments. Aside from daily journal scribbles I did no other form of writing for an entire month! For the past week I’ve been back in the writing saddle, writing daily. At first [...]
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Is There Space for Heart in Business?
I’ve just returned to ‘reality’ from a Yoga retreat with Holistic Yoga. The theme was ‘Opening the Heart’. Wow, what a luxury first of all to take time out from the responsibilities of life for relaxation, rejuventation and reinvigoration. I, like most of us in this crazy, crazy world of ours am very adept at [...]
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‘Stuff’ Editing – Are You Doing It?
A few nights ago I watched a great TED Talk by Graham Hill titled ‘Less Stuff, More Happiness’. He spoke about ‘editing’ your life to make room for the good stuff. Graham relates it largely to possessions and living space. In it he’s sitting on a box and tells his audience although he has no [...]
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Ditch the Desk
After yesterday’s bout of writer’s block I got thinking today about how to get those words flowing. I realised one very inspiring aspect to writing can be the location. Of course the first, obvious place is your desk. This will be your habitual place of working the grindstone. You will be in efficient, organised mode [...]
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Information Overload: A Modern Malaise
I have a bad habit of letting my emails accumulate and then periodically I have a mountainous job of deleting, filing and replying. Today was a mountainous day. Emails from friends, family, clients, facebook, blogs, banks, utilities, subscriptions, suppliers, spammers…And so on. As I wandered through my stack, the possible topic for today’s post was [...]
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I’ve Been Freshly Pressed And I’m Flat Out Chuffed!
DAY 5:30 Day Writing Challenge Wowwwwwww! So here we are at day five of my 30 day writing challenge. A few days ago I was sitting with my partner talking about how much I love writing. Inspired by a TED talk we’d watched he challenged me to 30 days of writing. Hoooeeeey! “OK” I said. [...]
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