Archive for 2013

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Setting Goals

Setting Goals

Well for more time than you care to remember you have gone through a ritual at the end of a year as you focus your mind on the things you would like to achieve in the forthcoming 12 months and set into motion your new year resolutions. Yet year after year they ...
Get Ready For Your New Year Resolutions

Get Ready For Your New Year Resolutions

So the Christmas festivities are over and now many of you are setting your sights on the successful achievement of your forthcoming New Year Resolutions. Well don’t wait till January before you get ready for your new year’s resolutions start putting your plan together now. It really is fast approaching, the time ...
A Merry Christmas to All My Readers!

A Merry Christmas to All My Readers!

Just wanted to take this opportunity to wish all my readers a Happy Christmas! I hope you all enjoy this wonderful day. Thank you for reading some of my blog posts this year, and contributing your great comments and sending me your touching emails. I truly do value every one of my ...
Christmas Spirit

Christmas Spirit

Walking around the metro shopping centre this weekend you would think that some catastrophe was about to hit, not that Christmas is around the corner. Maybe it’s the crowds of people that were stressing some out, perhaps the pressures of buying the right presents, or the amounts racking up on the ...
Happy Birthday To My Sister RIP

Happy Birthday To My Sister RIP

Today we are celebrating the birthday of my sister. She would be 60 years old today. Alas she died a few days before the tragedies on September 11, 2001. But her memory lives with us and on this day every year I take time to think about her life. I know she ...
Stopping Dementia

Stopping Dementia

Stopping dementia has got to become a key target for the medical profession. Having seen the effects of dementia on my own mother and on our family, as far as I'm concerned, it's probably the worst disease you can have. It has been so frustrating seeing so little being done about ...
Celebrate An Unsung Hero

Celebrate An Unsung Hero

My motto ‘never give up’ has never been more pertinent in the last few weeks seeing my mother struggling to recover from her ill health. Watching her lying there day after day on the brink of death but resolutely refusing to go has brought the meaning of never give up even ...
What Should I Do With My Life?

What Should I Do With My Life?

What should I do with my life? This is a powerful question most of us ask ourselves at some point in life. What would it mean to you to know, once and for all, what your life purpose is? For too long I was lost in the day-to-day activities of work that I had ...
Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining

Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining

We surely have all heard the saying, 'every cloud has a silver lining.' No doubts throughout the tumultuous period of my life after 2008 and through all those times of personal struggles this expression has helped me through. Here am I trying to get my head around writing a blog because it's ...
My Mum’s a Fighter

My Mum’s a Fighter

My Mum’s a fighter and the best example I've ever known of someone who will never give up. Sometimes things don’t go according to plan. This weekend has definitely been one of those times. Saturday started of brilliantly. I had my youngest daughter Carly staying overnight, so the morning found her, my partner ...