Experiments in Living
Posted in Inspiration on Sep 23rd, 2008
I was looking for something else and the book fell open at this page. Rather appropriate, given what I wrote in the previous post.
Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else there is no end to the blame.
Therefore, the Master fulfills her own obligations, and corrects her own mistakes.
She does what she needs to do [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Sep 20th, 2008
If you haven’t heard of Susan Jeffers, I’m willing to bet that you’ve heard of her best-selling book Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway! You might not know that Jeffers received countless rejections of her manuscript, including one editor who commented that “Lady Di could be cycling nude down the street giving this book [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Sep 5th, 2008
When I was a kid, I loved the Dungeons and Dragons series. For those of you who missed it, or did not spend your formative years in front of 1980s kids’ TV, Dungeons and Dragons was a cartoon based on the role playing game of the same name (a forerunner to the likes of World [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Season of Goodwill on Jun 28th, 2008
Just a quickie - last night I walked the Sleepwalk for St. Andrew’s Hospice Grimsby. Over 560 women turned out in their pyjamas to walk twelve miles around our town. It was an absolutely fantastic night, so much energy buzzing round. Anyway here’s a photo of our team just after we crossed the finish line [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Jun 21st, 2008
This morning I set my alarm for 4am and went down to the sea front to watch the midsummer sunrise. Unlike the Stonehenge celebrations, the weather was fantastic. I drove down in my car and was glad I did as the nightclubs were still tipping out and I didn’t fancy walking through a load of [...]
