‘I didn’t know you were leaving, no one told me!’ Funny thing about retirement — The feeling of being disposable Being needed until you aren’t — There’s someone to replace you — It’s all good You can leave now — Maybe earlier than you planned but it suits us better Helps us drive our business into the future — Bye And with that the door is closed and the work…
Dragging herself out of the comfort of bed and to the surgery, took effort extreme effort — To overcome the fatigue and the mental torment The painful joints, the aching muscles, the incessant headaches Yet she came because she knew — ‘There had to be More to life than this’ She’d tried everything to get better and as a last resort came to us Referred by a friend who’d had…
‘Ideas are a dime a dozen’ he said… Then he stole one, not mine but someone else’s and made a fortune He used the one with the dream for what he could get out of him and then left him So ideas may be a dime a dozen - BUT - You’ve got to have them in the first place Not be so unimaginative that all you can do is…
I have agonised, debated with myself, fought through the ups and downs I have questioned myself so many times — What do I have to say that’s different — Why me I have compared myself with others, worried over treatments —Did I get it right Could I have done better — What if I’m wrong — What if I’m not good enough And then a comment — Simple but powerful…
‘Mine of course’ — You say! — Who else’s could it be right? Well that’s what I thought and of course you’re right — It is your life BUT Was it the one you designed or was it designed for you I remember as a child day dreaming of my adult life Right down to the car I would drive — Yes I know too many movies! Yes I've had…
Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life We live in uncertain times and have done so for over two years now. During this time the hopes, the dreams, the ideas have for many been put on hold. My daughter’s plans to return to the UK have been on hold for so long now that it is difficult for her not…
No doubt about it, life has been difficult — AND — It still is So how do you take the difficult — Make it simple and work the simple Look at the problem from a different point of view — Simple? Not really but it works — Change the paradigm, change the outcome. The theory is great but how to do it practically Outside what I learned as a student…
If I know anything about anything it’s about how to fail. The question is at which particular point in life did I learn to fail and or get set up to fail. What was I told, what was the turning point, the critical moment that persuaded me that failure was an option. People talk so much about success, the motivated even see failure as the pathway to success Learn from…
Hope deferred makes the heart sick Despair and Affliction —Depression, Anxiety, Burnout and actual physical sickness. I suspect many are feeling Heart Sick right now — I know I’ve had many dark moments this year The hope of things getting better as restrictions ease — Blurred by increasing sickness numbers The hope that life is on the mend — somehow returning to a semblance of normal — Still distant The…
From deep within rises the panic Have I left it too late, Have I waited too long, Have I watched and wondered but not participated Have I discerned, seen clearly or is it all too vague A mist that my vision cannot penetrate Have I hoped against hope that it will all be ok While all the time I am seeing that it will NOT Have I thought this just…