Monday Mantra: Pursue Your Dreams
(source) We do not fear the leap. We fear the fall that we expect will follow. We stop taking chances and pursuing our dreams because the paralysis of fear stops us in our tracks before we can even...
View ArticleMonday Mantra: Just Dance
I don’t think a day goes by where I don’t dance at least once. Perhaps dancing isn’t the right word for it. Dancing connotes some sort of grace and elegance in the movement, so I think we can best...
View ArticleMonday Mantra: Write for Yourself
Writing ~ Flaubert I apologise for my absent Gratitude List, I promise a mega list next Monday. At the moment, dear friends, I am Writing. With a capital ‘W’. I feel the words moving through me and I...
View ArticleFalling
Today I fell. The earth tipped underneath me and gravity sucked me down. Skin torn, bones rattled, muscles mashed, and pride wounded I limped away from the experience and willed myself not to cry or...
View ArticleWeekly Mantra: Say Yes, Then Figure it Out
Thursday (yesterday) was my first day at my new job. A huge thank you to everyone for the well wishes, and to the darling Chris for dealing with my nerves (oh, they were first-day-back-at-school...
View ArticleMidweek Mantra: Patience
I am so often in a rush to reach the next stage of my life, to achieve the next goal, to summit the next mountain, and this only leads to anxiety and stress. I need to learn to be patient, practice...
View ArticleMidweek Mantra: Gathering the Minutes
My diary is a tumultuous place. Full of weeks of blank pages that suddenly become months of flurried activity and then settle again into blankness. My relationship with this dichotomy of diary states...
View ArticleMidweek(ish) Mantra: Live With Kindness
When I was a little girl and lost my temper because Mum had asked me to do something that I didn’t want to do her remark was usually delivered calmly but with gravity, ‘Amy could you just do that with...
View ArticleMidweek Mantra: Do it Every Day
When you have a dream, a vision, or a soul-shaking idea of what you want your life to be you are awakened to the gap between your current location and your planned destination. We are bombarded with...
View ArticleNourished Life: Small Great Things
All of my life I have wanted to do great things. I have felt that somehow my life was only worth measuring by impressive feats and grand achievements. I felt that I needed to ‘make something’ of myself...
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