Lifestyles
A happy ship is an efficient ship
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If people are contented, they are more likely to form friendships, be prepared to help each other out, and spend time working out how they can solve problems together.
Watching the movie “In Which We Serve” I was interested [...]
Are time pressures causing you to opt out of life?
Are you a casualty of a fast-paced lifestyle?
If this sounds like you, it’s quite likely you don’t have time for more than the essentials, what relates to you personally. Getting things done allows no time out from your busy schedule.
What are the consequences of this approach to life?
You don’t notice when people are helpful to [...]
What constitutes a full life?
Taking time out to look at your life, and see where you are going
Do you confuse activity with purpose?
You may not have noticed, but it could be that every minute of your time is filled with appointments, there are places you have to be, people you have to meet.
If you take a good look [...]
The Zen of Survival
Voluntary simplicity may be the best way to survive difficult times
However much you want to be able to have that perfect wedding, give your kids the best vacation ever, treat your nearest and dearest to a slap-up meal, now may not be the time to do it. With the uncertainty in the financial markets, higher [...]
Beware of an obsession with over-achievement
Sometimes, enough is enough, if you want to enjoy your life
Are you running yourself into the ground, always looking for that elusive something that will make you happy? Is whatever you have — money, possessions, power, fame — only the basis for getting more? Are you feeling trapped by life, rather than liberated
Do you take [...]
How busy lives ruin family relationships
When your child says, “I want to tell you something . . . ,” do you have time to listen?
We parents are caught in a bind. Trying to do the best for our children is often difficult and frustrating. We are busy running around on tight schedules. There are people who expect us to be [...]
Everyday fiction: thoughts on the stories we tell ourselves
When it comes to telling others what happened, do you prefer dull truth or exciting fiction?
Do you like to hear other people’s views of what’s happening in the news — or would you prefer to find out for yourself? Do you want the ‘truth’; or do you want a good story? How much of what [...]
Is it quitting time?
One of the greatest gifts is to recognize when you’re in the wrong place, or doing the wrong things, and find the courage to stop whatever that is and make a change without guilt or regret.
People don’t always get their lives right the first time. It’s nobody’s fault. Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual. [...]
On Valentine’s Day: Random thoughts about love
How does love affect our working lives?
Love is a powerful emotion for which people are willing to kill and die.
I don’t mean just love for another person, still less sex. Love of money, love of power, love of glory and love of reputation all play major roles in how businesses run.
Let’s ignore sexual [...]
Are you always thinking about tomorrow?
What if that tomorrow never comes — and you never fulfill your dreams?
Don’t let pressure and overwork encourage you to hurry past parts of your life. Whether it‚Äôs your children‚Äôs early life, whole segments of your marriage, or maybe the last active years of loved parents, they are swiftly past and gone beyond recall. Regret [...]
