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I remember a friend from Sweden telling me that Swedish is a very difficult language for non-native speakers to learn because a correct understanding of the language depends not so much on knowing the vocabulary as it does on understanding how to int...

My all-time favourite television commercial depicts a small child standing at the edge of a swimming pool. Her father is standing in the water attempting to encourage her to leap towards him, but rather than simply admit that she is too afraid to jum...

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.” Desmond Tutu Over the last two years we have inspired and encouraged and commiserated with each other and, a...

I woke up this morning and I just hated everything. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider New Years is very much a time when people to tend to rush to make changes in their lives so it should come as no surprise that one of the top YouTube search results this ...

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” Alexander Pope Last week I launched a discussion regarding the concept of unfinished business. This week, let’s continue our examination of this theme by taking a few momen...

“A garden is never finished” Shunryu Suzuki One of the things that creative minds struggle with the most is how to tell when a project that they are working on is finished. For the purposes of this discussion it really doesn’t matter whether we are t...

“Don’t be a leaf … be a tree!” Charles M Schultz This past week I read a very poignant article regarding the challenges of accomplishing personal growth in the public eye and it reminded me of the quote above by Charles M. Schultz, creator of the bel...

“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” Alfred North Whitehead As we round the corner between autumn and the advent of the holiday season, I suddenly find myself t...

“We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.” Wendell Phillips If I asked you to sum up your experience over the last two years in just one word, what is the first word that comes to mind? For me, it is fatigue – isolation fatigue, lockdown fatigu...

“Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” Henry Ford Regardless of how the pandemic has touched your life, one of the things that we all have in common is the fact that social-distancing has taken an enor...