This week I put this image out through my Social Media channels I have been increasing my use of images to get my message across. I like working with images, they can convey so many different ideas all at once. One of my highlights this year was guest posting on Jeff Goins […]
A Wellness Path
Three Gratitude’s Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud Three things that I’m grateful for, All the significant, insignificant Extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It’s a small practice and humble, And yet, I find I sleep better Holding what lightens and softens my life […]
Problems! We all have them, and they can so often create incredible amounts of pressure and stress. A small problem for one person can seem like a mountain of stress for another. The problem can feel too big, and that there is no way of solving it. People also come to you with […]
What is it like to feel alone with your struggle? You are having a hard time in your life. There is pain, frustration, a desperateness and you feel completely alone with it. You may have people around you who care. They may even be professionals such as doctors, nurses, support workers, […]
It is only a hammer, but for me it is very significant because it reminds me of a time when I was entrusted with a huge responsibility. My Father had become very unwell and was unable to run our farm for a few months. It was a busy time […]
When a winter storm of life hits, are you prepared or prone? Your mental health can take a pounding if you not prepared for the inevitability of crisis. A few months ago, I was driving over the Auckland harbour bridge when just to the left of me was the mast of […]
Sometimes God just jumps out on your daily path of busyness and whispers ‘Look at me’. It happened like this for me the other day. I was working on a farm trying to solve some water reticulation problems. As I was walking to the water pump I happened to […]
There is an Ocean We, so small and plain and self-contained, we live lives full of petty concerns, and selfish gain. We, all wound up and tight and self-absorbed, we draw up the drawbridge, and pull shut the door. With our concern for self we become confined, we narrow our […]
Do you look for opportunities? L.O.F.O Sometimes the very thing we most need we miss seeing because we are not open to looking for the not so obvious opportunities. I was walking with my wife into our local shopping mall yesterday when we happened to notice a car with a […]
Today, as you go about your daily business, you will encounter people. Depending on where you live it could be in the thousands of a busy city or the few of a country town. Regardless, this planet has billions and billions of people of which you are one. Often I […]