Lessons from the London Marathon – Everyone’s a Winner
Yesterday morning, I spent three hours watching the London marathon on TV. Sport is about the only thing I watch on TV so this was pure indulgence. If things had panned out differently, I too would have been running yesterday. I wrote in January about how this was the...
Are you Ready to Blossom?
Spring is in the air and last Sunday I was in my favourite place in the whole world - Regents Park. The cherry trees were in blossom and were quite spectacular to say the least. This scene reminded of a great quote I came across recently from Chilean poet, Pablo...
Boost your Energy!
For my regular coaching column in "Asian Woman Magazine", I was recently asked this question:- Lately I have been feeling rather low in energy. I feel lethargic and have no interest in doing anything. How can I get out of this mind set? This is what I replied:- To get...
Lessons for Life from a Tall Tale 🙂
As I write this, the scaffolding from outside my window is finally being removed, six weeks after it was first put up to investigate a leak from the roof. At the time, I wrote about how the scaffolding had first been put up against the wrong house! I also used the...
Friday the 13th – Go out and Make Your Own Luck!
It is Friday the 13th! In many cultures, a Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck. This is especially so amongst English, German, Polish and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe. Strangely, in Greece or Spain...
How to Have your Easter Chocolate Bunny and Eat it Too!
As most of the developed world gets ready for the Easter break, spare a thought for those to whom today is just another day in a struggle for survival and progress. For a lot of children, an Easter chocolate bunny is only a fantasy. This is not about feeling guilty or...
How Not to Get Fired Up!
I have now been up and working since 6 this morning, having given up trying to get some sleep. I felt all fired up and on edge all night, mulling over all sorts of thoughts from penguins, statues and new e-books, desperately trying to sleep. You may ask why those...
Kill your Speed, not Your Car or You!
It seems that there is always something happening around where I live. This morning, the police had to close the road for two hours after a serious accident literally yards from my home. It is only barely two months since I wrote about a motorcyclist being hit on...
There is Enough to Go Around the World!
Last week I received two wedding invitations - it seems that a lot of my friends are getting married this year. So far I know of 4 friends getting married in 2007, in locations as exotic as India, the Bahamas - and of course London 🙂 Nowadays, with the advent of the...
Lessons from NOT Running the London Marathon
This April, I was due to finally run the London marathon. I even wrote in January about how to run your own marathon in 2007. See, I have wanted to run the London marathon for a long time and it looked like this year, on 22nd April, I was finally going to achieve one...