Good is not a prerequiste of success. Loving something is… even if you don’t know you left hand from your right one to begin with. Being good at something doesn’t mean you love it. Nor does it necessarily bring you success.Yet love can overcome weaknesses and propel you to a […]
Monthly archives: June 2020
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Fuel Empathy and See Your Garden Grow!??? Earlier in the year, three of us friends were asked to take charge of a community garden. As long as we did the work, found the funding, and designed it with the vulnerable elderly in mind, we had free rein. Or so we […]
Instead of predicting how someone might behave or ‘PRESS YOUR BUTTONS’ Don’t take the BORING path that leads you to a usual outcome (Yawn) Come at them instead with curiosity and spontaneity I assure you the outcome will be anything but inevitable.
My earliest memory of ‘Navigating the Unknown’ is of Aunty Anne walking me past the Bee Gees’ old house on Keppel Road to their old school, Oswald Road School. Nurseries did not exist then, so at five this was my ‘first day’ of separation from my familiar and cosy routine life. Imagine titch me, both thrilled and terrified of the tall railings with the looming Edwardian municipal school in the background. It was daunting! I remember […]
When an ‘unresolved matter of opinion or incident ’ appears in conversation especially with family.It sets off a whack a mole trigger in me. Does it for you too? The whack a mole trigger surfaces from deep within us and stops us from negotiating or engaging in positive and enriching […]