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As a child were you ever asked “Who do you want to be when you grow up?” You probably responded with enough enthusiasm and energy to bowl someone over! Now that you are grown up, has anything changed? If so, what is it? Who did you want to be? Can you remember what relative, famous […]

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We hear much talk around us of ‘seasons of life’ and it is a concept that we use in our coaching sometimes too. The idea centres around the four seasons of Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring. For instance, Summer might be seen as a season of reaping, of sunshine and of plenty. Winter might be […]

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For most of our married life, we have had dogs.  When our last one had to be put down, at over 14 years of age, we decided against getting another one. That was a few years ago now.  Even though we did not want another dog, we enjoyed the three ‘granddogs’ in the family enormously. […]

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I don’t know about you, but I find watching the news on Television these days rather depressing.  If there is not footage of another collapse, firms closing, people losing their jobs, there is news of road deaths, murders and other ‘engaging’ items.  Apparently good news does not sell.  Well, for this viewer, good news does sell!  […]

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Living in the subtropics, near the lazy Brisbane River and near bushland and parks is mostly very pleasant.  Sometimes there are chance encounters with  snakes, or other more common visits from possums, frogs, and recently even a water dragon.  It is wonderful to be able to observe nature as easily as we can – in […]

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Have you ever dreamt of  what it would be like to relax on a tropical island with every whim catered for? Most people have, and some may have realised that dream.  I have just returned from a trip to Koh Samui in Thailand.  It was an island, tropical, laid back and beautiful with lovely people. The […]

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Sometimes  one week seems to fly into the next without us seeming to notice.  Once a week I do a hydrotherapy session with a friend.  Apart from exercising our bodies, we also exercise our tongues, of course.  This week it struck me how quickly the last week had passed.  In fact, I had to think […]

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A program I saw this week on Australian Story on ABC TV really moved me and made me sit up and take notice.  Entitled ‘Some Meaning in this life, it was about Belinda Emmett- actor, singer, and wife of Rove McManus. At 24 she was diagnosed with breast cancer.  At 32 she died from secondaries in the form […]

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In the course of my work as a Life Coach, I am always humbled by one experience, that of helping people find their purpose in life. When clients find what they are on this earth for, lights seem to come on for them and it is the beginning of a transformation  in their lives.  Some […]

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