Distraction to Action in 4 Steps!
I decide to water my flowers in the garden…. As I turn on the hose, I look at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the table that I collected from the letter-box earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash […]
A valuable lesson from a mangy cat…
An industrious art collector is walking through the city, when he notices a mangy old cat lapping milk from a saucer, in the doorway of a store. He does a double take, recognizing that the saucer is extremely old and very valuable. He thinks fast .. decides .. and walks casually into the store, […]
The Starling Momentum…
I grew up in Rome, and as a little girl the Starlings swooped and swayed in a magnificent wave above my head, as I giggled delightedly at their wonderful performance. I never questioned how they managed to stay so perfectly in sync….. but many scientists did. They discovered that instead of their prior […]
Mindreading….
A Polish man moved to the US and married an American girl. Although his English was far from perfect, they got along very well at the start – but one day he rushed into a lawyer’s office and asked him if he could arrange a divorce. The lawyer said that getting a divorce would depend […]
What story are you telling?
The sound of my runners crunching on the road was in sync with my breathing and the words that I kept repeating in my head. ….. An hour earlier I was feeling a little unmotivated, but had just seen a post from one of my students, which rekindled my desire to get out and […]
This IS A Very Special Occasion!
Footsteps in Rome on a special holiday… Loved ones gathered together – enjoying and savouring in the moment. Tasting stories from the past and languishing in bittersweet photos and memories. Reminded once more of lessons past forgotten. When I returned from my weekend in Rome I felt a little sad to have said goodbye to […]
An Apple For You…
A little girl was sitting, looking at two shiny apples she was holding in her hands. Her mother came by, noticed and softly asked her daughter with a smile.. “Sweetie, could you give your mom one of your apples?” The little girl looked up at her mom for a moment, then suddenly took a […]
It’s The Principle Of It….
This past weekend I saved a sheep I named Popeye (he loves Olives – that’s for another story!) from going to the ‘factory’. Instead he will live out his life with lots of friends in a happy home. This reminds me of a terrible joke – brace yourself! Question: Where do sheep go on vacation? […]
Are You Like Scrat?
ARE YOU LIKE SCRAT? Poor Scrat was a little saber-toothed squirrel in the animation Ice Age. He was constantly chasing his beloved Acorn – to no avail – and always resulting in disastrous consequences for him and his surroundings. Is there a message in this? Well…last week I GOT the Acorn 😉 An […]
Is It Fate Or Destiny?
“We fail to say the right words, because we choose to say the wrong words! We choose to say the wrong words, because we fail to think about the right words!” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah What does the above quote evoke in you? Do you agree with this or do you believe you always […]
