Well, maybe not exactly, but this week I have done more exercise than I’ve done in that past 3 years.  I have always loathed swimming but it’s become my best friend.  I find I am actually looking forward to getting the the pool and I’m eager to push myself that little bit harder each time [...]

In the last post I talked about making a pledge for personal change in 2012.  Instead of a new year resolution that you feel you must complete as specified in a set period of time you can work on a pledge throughout the year.  Most personal development and personal growth happens slowly over time, although [...]

I’m not a fan of new year resolutions as often people make them, fail at them, then feel bad about not keeping them.  This in turn means the following year they know they won’t succeed before they make the resolution and already feel bad before making it, so what is the point really?  It just [...]

Following my announcement in the last post about my summer job, I’m An Alpaca Trekker, Dawn Kay, of Dawn Kay’s Blog asked me for a video of the guys.  So here it is, a short video of the boys.  Hope you enjoy it, and leave me a comment.  If you want to see more pics [...]

Life is full of ups and downs and sometimes the downs seem to be the main focus of our days.  We need to be able to see beyond those and know that there is something better and more fulfilling around the corner.
One way to create a pathway out of those places is to have a [...]

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.  The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.  Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Z is also for zigzag, and if you zigzag it won’t matter how much zeal you have, your success will be much longer coming, and quite [...]

Yesterday is very much a part of who we are.  We can learn so much from the experiences of all our yesterdays, but it does not do to dwell on those experiences too much.  Take what is useful from them and place the rest at the back of our memories.  Often too much time can [...]

X appeared to be a difficult letter to get to grips with,  I toyed with other ‘x’ words but kept getting drawn back to xenophobia, an acute dislike of foreigners.
Not necessarily of other cultures, however.  We seem to be very tolerant of the cultures we like to embrace, whilst at the same time disliking [...]

Many people mistakenly feel that the only definition of ‘wealthy’ is having lots of possessions.  They believe that in order to be wealthy one must have lots of money and ‘things’.
To be truly wealthy you do not need money or possessions.  You can consider yourself a very wealthy person if you possess wisdom, peace of [...]

Do you believe that truth can do more harm than good? Oscar Wilde once said, ‘the truth is rarely pure and never simple’.  And Denis Diderot, ‘We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter’.  Truth will out, as Shakespeare said.
Honesty is the [...]