Live your true life
I remember watching a talk given by Wayne Dyer where he shared his philosophy of being someone who is open to ideas. He demonstrated his point by stating that if he were to be suffering with haemorrhoids and someone said…
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There’s an obvious attraction to staying in our comfort zone. It’s comfortable. It’s where safety lives. Security. Predictability. Familiarity. It’s also where we settle. We accept things as being OK, or fine. It’s where mediocrity lives. And it also where…
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I’ve written and spoken numerous times before on the workings of the mind, particularly when it comes to the mind creating fear-based scenarios which keep us stuck inside our comfort zones. The great news is that the mind can also…
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There’s a reason why your eyes are positioned at the front of your face. We are designed to keep looking and moving forward. Yet, many of us spend so much of our time in looking back. Looking back wistfully into…
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There’s a tree located on the nature-strip next door to my house. It’s in a row of three. This tree was growing up next to its siblings happily for a few years and then some really big winds came through…
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Imagine I handed you $525,000 and gave you one year in which to spend it. Would you go on a big spending spree, buying up anything and everything that happened to catch your eye? Or would you sit down and…
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After a busy and high-intensity week, I decided I needed a day to myself doing nothing. And I did just that on Saturday. I didn’t do anything! I didn’t even leave the house. I lazed around on the couch and…
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I had a picnic in a cemetery earlier this week. Now, for some of you that sounds like a perfectly normal event. For others – well, you are probably wondering if I’ve lost the plot. You see, I come from…
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It is election campaigning time here in Australia at the moment and everyone I speak to already seems to have an opinion on which party they want to vote for. But even if they haven’t made up their minds yet,…
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I believe that appreciation and gratitude are the foundation for happiness and it’s the appreciation of what we often think of as ‘the little things’ that can really impact how we feel about life. When I was traveling through China…
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