I made a deal with myself which I started regretting almost immediately. Back in May, as the days started to dwindle away I thought about giving myself some sort of task or objective to complete in June. I have often found that setting myself small challenges helps me to achieve things I would … [Read more...] about How To Achieve More Than You Thought You Could
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How To Love Your Inner Child
Listening to the radio last weekend a programme caught my ear. “Mark Watson’s Inner Child” was a light hearted documentary on the rising tide of “kidult” activities and the companies who peddle them, encouraging adults to get in touch with their inner child. I listened with a slight sense of … [Read more...] about How To Love Your Inner Child
What To Do When You're Sad And Angry
In the poem “For A Far Out Friend” writer Gary Snyder references "Devas", beings of greater power and bliss than can be found in humanity. We seem to find it hard to achieve much bliss at times, in the tumult of everyday existence, and even a moderate level of happiness and contentment can be … [Read more...] about What To Do When You're Sad And Angry
What You Need To Know About Self Esteem
I have writers block, whatever that is. I knew it would happen, that one week I would be lost for something to write but that I would simultaneously feel the need to keep going anyway. Gazing out of the window I wonder why that man always parks his black Mercedes outside my house, and I marvel at … [Read more...] about What You Need To Know About Self Esteem
Why Your Parents Aren't To Blame
Ghosts. Yesterday, buying a coffee, I had to fight my way through an ever extending array of plastic Halloween decorations, a commercial and tenuous connection to the ancient Celtic belief that this time of year marks a blurring of the lines between the living and the dead. As the leaves turn and … [Read more...] about Why Your Parents Aren't To Blame