Having a three week old baby has shown me something, very very useful. She’s the perfect thing to develop more mastery of my own mind and reactions – Getting super good at how to choose my response to challenge, and all with a smile – even at 3am. Let me tell you: Challenge is part […]
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I keep forgetting people gets all confused about peace.I shouldn’t, but I do. They get it all twisted – So I’m here to add a little clarity for you. It’s commonly confused that peace means giving up, surrendering, checking out, renouncing the world, giving up your life goals. Peace is seen as the opposite to
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I’m writing to you as I sit on the sunny side of the train, heading into Kent. I have a course on over the next few days, but the most crucial – and enjoyable – part of this is the feeling of sun on my face. Sitting here, doing nothing, nothing to do, just to
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How much time do you think really productive and creative people spend wasting time, just re-thinking and re-planning and re-analysing? When you want to rule your world you don’t have a lot of time to do that, do you? It’s a kind of ruthlessness that I really admire, and I’ve been talking a little about
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It’s become increasingly apparent to me, In fact more than ever with the little froglet, That I don’t have any time to waste on unconscious frivolities. Time – even and especially when I want to spend it on conscious frivolities, is short. Someone wise once said: “Don’t manage your time, manage your attention”
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I’m exhausted. Poor me. Seems like every part of my body aches. The local river has been going nuts you see, And I’ve been on it, surfing my head off. In my new, very sporty kayak. My old one is like a bus compared to this model. So I’m well chuffed. Sumati calls it a
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Want to die from stress? No thanks – not me. I’m not being dramatic – stress is the biggest cause of illness and early death in the West. Everyone gets stressed and overwhelmed at some stage … And yet it is TOTALLY avoidable WITHOUT hiding away from the world. >>> If you realise this one
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Have you ever met someone who shocked you with what they said? Actually – yes, constantly. Let me put it another way – Has anyone ever shocked AND inspired you all at the same time? Can I tell you a little story? When I met my meditation teacher he did that. He gave me a
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As my wife has a small human attached to her breast most of the day it seems, I have been run around boy. Fetching and getting and plumping pillows and cooking and changing nappies. Previously I would have hated that. “What about ME? What about what I want to do?” … I would have moaned
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I was talking with a guy recently about how he might do his sport better. Let’s call him “Steve” so as not to shame him. He’s a runner and loving the park run scene and the improvements he’s seeing. Steve wanted to know how he might get even more of an advantage over his personal
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