Archive for February, 2009
A window into the past.
Last night I watched a fascinating documentary on SBS: The Thirties In Color. Color footage from that era is very rare and being an avid people watcher (the nice sort, don’t worry!) I was looking forward to a color window into the past. Black and white simply does not have the same ‘life’ and seems [...]
Update on planned further post on fear.
Earlier in the week I mentioned that I would be writing a key post about fear on Saturday. This has been delayed; partly due the blog outage I experienced yesterday. My apologies for any inconvenience caused.
DNA and Shamanism
In some other posts I comment briefly on the subject of DNA in context of Shamanism. Here are the two articles: Four Fold Way = simpler life. Shamanism and personal development As an academic, geeky type as well as a Shaman, I find the DNA aspect fascinating. If anyone wants to communicate with me about [...]
Fear – a different slant.
“We can’t fear the past. Fear is a future thing. And since the future’s all in our heads, fear must be a head thing.” – Tom Payne Think about it carefully – take time to ponder this: In one sense, fear actually lives in the future! Fear is usually a mind’s projection into the future. [...]
Fed up with Spam? Want an easy solution which really works?
Perhaps you are fed up with the quantity of SPAM you receive in your email accounts? Perhaps it is so bad that you have ceased using an email address? And perhaps you own a domain name and the email address connected to it is overrun with SPAM? There is an easy solution. For years I [...]
Step through fear.
“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” – Brendan Francis Try it sometime! Here’s some more food for thought… Mr Fear knocked at the door; Mr Faith answered and there was nobody there. I suggest you have a careful think about the above concepts and [...]
Phone tapping by Police – who cares?
Police phone tapping powers start in the state of Queensland this year. (News article). ‘Phone tapping’ can include a variety of communications technologies, be they speech, music or sounds, data, text, images or signals. Predictably some civil libertarians are very concerned about the issue. To some extent I can understand where the civil libertarians are [...]
Find your next job with Twitter.
Partly in view of the current hard times that some people are experiencing, I have recently been writing articles on job search via unusual methods – things that can give people an extra edge, or ‘leg up’ in their job search. Here is an interesting article with information about using Twitter for job search. Be [...]
Where are we headed?
Take a look at this article, but before you do, bear in mind that the domain is part of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). It is clearly not some kind of spoof. I know when I first saw the article, parts of my mind struggled to conceptualize all of the subject matter. Fluid Interfaces Group [...]
Are you disciplined or devoted?
“People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.” Luciano Pavarotti 1935-2007, Opera Singer Pavarotti was amazingly successful. He clearly understood a key life principle. Let’s look at it another way… A dictionary definition of “discipline”: n. Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, [...]
Get a human when you phone (for US readers); and thoughts on customer service.
Want to speak to a person when you phone an organization? Those computerized phone systems can at times be very counter productive indeed and on occasion I have experienced greater difficulties because of them. Here is a good list of shortcuts to a real human for my North American readers. Gethuman database for better customer [...]
Are you a victim?
“People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.” Stedman Graham Speaker, Author and Educator What kind of vision do you have for your life? Are you a victim? I was once a victim. Always blaming my circumstances, shitty parents and siblings. A [...]
Smart people don't know it all….. Eh?
Smart people don’t know it all. Probably better said…. really smart people know that they don’t know it all. Here’s why: “No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the [...]
Places I have lived in – Bath, Somerset, England.
The city of Bath, in the county of Somerset, England was where I lived from 1990 until 1997 when I left England for the last time (not long before they turned the lights out it seems). I lived in a small village just outside Bath called Batheaston, set on the slopes of Solsbury Hill. All [...]
Relaxation, stress relief and meditation – one way you can get help with them.
Relaxation, stress relief and meditation – perhaps these are things which you wish you knew more about; or more importantly – which you knew more about how to achieve? One of my aims with my blogs and websites is to help people in a variety of ways. Of course, I can help people directly as [...]
Health benefits of green tea.
Just a quick comment… If you are interested in the health benefits of green tea, then you might be interested in a post I wrote yesterday on another blog: Green tea – some key information.
Public speaking – here is a great resource.
Public speaking is something that frightens lots of people. Public speaking used to frighten me; much more so than most people too. I was the kid that got out of performing in school plays (yes, really – I was so desperate that I managed it) and even dodged in class reading once by jamming a [...]
Surgeons send ‘tweets’ from operating room.
Twitter is becoming ubiquitous! I quote: It’s potentially a risky surgery, but everything’s ready: The doctors and nurses are in the operating room, the surgical instruments are sterilized and ready to go, and the chief resident is furiously Twittering on his laptop. Surgeons send ‘tweets’ from operating room
Broaden your mind, deepen your understanding, educate yourself.
I am a big believer in education. Early in my life I had a somewhat disjointed and varied education. At one point I attended one of the best schools in the world (Rugby School). The education at Rugby School was first class, though other aspects of school life were not and left me with lasting [...]
Sushi & Yum Cha on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
This is a ‘dining out‘ post aimed at people local to my area of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; and at visitors or tourists in the region. For many years now my wife and I have been enjoying Sushi and Yum Cha at Sushi 4 U in Broadbeach. Map link. We have been attending Sushi [...]
