Archive for the ‘Emotional’ Category
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
“Allowing people to take time out to watch football during working hours is simply too costly, untimely, and unfair,” so says Willem Smit, a researcher at the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland.
It is amazing just how much the pursuit of production and profit is held up as justification not to ...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
In exactly one month’s time, I will change my status once again from employed to self employed. Since it has been a long time since I have took stock of where I am, now would seem to be an appropriate time to do so. This is where I think I ...
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
Dr Martin Luther King once said “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilisation, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil ...
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
"This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise, or, at least neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and ...
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
I may be getting on but my heart is still young and once in a while I don’t act my age and go out to a club with the hope of having a good dance and a drink, of course. Last night, something that occurred to me that I have ...
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
I am not so sure why but this story from the BBC website made me sad. I think, but I am not sure, it has something to do with ‘5 minutes of fame’ or is there a sense that there is much more to the story than meets the eye?
“The ...
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
If you happen to be one of the millions of people who either read or listen to the success self-help gurus that the USA seems to be able to generate in their thousands sprouting such terms as NLP, the Secret, 10 habits and other such like, the you would recognise ...
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
"Money brings happiness. Fine. In that case, everyone who earns enough to have a high standard of living would be able to stop work. But then they’re more troubled than ever, as if they were afraid of losing everything. Money attracts money, that’s true. Poverty might bring unhappiness, but money ...
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
“If you cannot be by yourself for an hour, or for a day, or for a week then you don’t like yourself” so rants ‘Payroll da Pimp’ in his ‘Rebirth’ audio book. [WARNING : Do not look this book up if you are easily offended – whilst the book is ...
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Many people attribute the above quote to the US constitution when in fact it comes from ...
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
You see them after travelling peak hours in the UK, every weekday, shuffling on the buses with their free passes, in some places trying to get on the bus before off peak time. You see them once or twice a week queued up outside post offices and if you happen ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
For the first time in Scotland a family who donated their dead relatives organs and the person that received one of them have met. See BBC News - Mother meets girl who received sons liver. This story made me feel good about the fact that I have chosen and made ...
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
"As you move into your forties and fifties, the recognition of your own mortality becomes more and more a part of decision-making. You realize that you're not going to be around forever. Your choices become a lot more precious. The gap between your dreams and what you're actually doing narrows, ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
'Place in the sun' - a place/environment that promotes a sense of success, happiness, or prosperity.
I have a friend who likes to go to Thailand. For the past few years, he has visited at least once a year and in some years twice. He has been to other parts of ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
A news story this morning caught my attention. It was about the fact that bonobos, one of our closest primate relatives, prefer to share their food rather than eat alone.
"Dr Hare said it could be purely altruistic, or more selfish motives could drive this behaviour because sharing could be exchanged ...
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