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Wednesday 2nd December 2009
I had a client a while ago who was struggling to get clear on a new direction for her life. We had done a number of exercises, discussed options and played with possibilities, but she was still stuck. I suggested to her that she try to do a collage, finding and arranging images and words together on a page.
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Tuesday 8th September 2009
I recently rediscovered the YouTube video of Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address. He talks about his own university experiences, and in particular, his decision to drop out. This was a big thing for him (he describes it a 'pretty scary'), because his biological parents had stipulated that whoever adopted him had to agree to send him to university.
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Tuesday 9th June 2009
I went for a long walk with my dog today, listening to an old favourite on my iPod, David Whyte's quite marvellous Clear Mind Wild Heart. I reached the place where he talks of those times in our lives where we have to become bigger, where we must find a way to inhabit a greater sense of possibility than before.
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Wednesday 6th May 2009
It's easy to fall into a stoic, martyred place at the moment, thinking everything is tough, and we just have to hunker down, believe everything we read in the papers and bite on our stiff upper lips til the pain stops (or til we don't feel it any more...).
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Thursday 30th April 2009
Do you know about fainting goats? Whenever they are startled, they 'faint' or freeze, and fall down.
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Thursday 16th April 2009
Do you have a little voice that sometimes pops up in your mind with criticisms or dire warnings such as "If you try that, you will fail", "Everyone will laugh" or "Don't be ridiculous"?
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