Archive for the ‘Emotional’ Category
Friday, March 5th, 2010
'I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured - Identity Crisis at the Cape', an "historical documentary film to explore the legacy of Apartheid through the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured community" came to my notice recently via a Facebook page collating Zimbabwean mixed race history mainly through photographs. Channel 4’s recent documentary ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
This morning, my son gave me one of those school photograph packs from school. You know the ones I mean? Where the schools get the photographer in and then encourage us, the gullible parents, to pay over the odds for the photographs? I do understand that school get a cut ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
I can't remember where I heard this little tit-bit but it is one I always recall it whenever I have to tell someone I am an atheist. In the story, a Muslim man asks a Christian man why is it he (the Christian) is afraid to die if he truly ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
"This latest finding adds to a wealth of data suggesting that being happy isn't all it's cracked up to be.... Happiness seems to make people more selfish, the latest in a series of revelations suggesting it changes how you think – and not in a good way."
via Happiness ain't all ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
"By far the most important lesson travel teaches you is that your time is all you really own in life. And the more you travel, the more you realize ..... the satisfaction you get from finding new experiences, meeting new people, and learning new things about yourself.....the best experiences in ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
How we in the West are accepting worsening 'customer care' under the pretence of efficiency.
A number of things that have happened to me over the past few months that has made me realise just how bad customer service is developing in the Western World, or at least in the UK. ...
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
It struck me very strongly this week that in the week that Auschwitz survivors mark Holocaust Memorial Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8482760.stm), I happen to be reading Viktor E Frankel's "Man's Search for Meaning", Dr. Frankel was an Auschwitz survivor. In the same week, news coming out of the disaster in Haiti cumulated ...
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
Alban Goodier
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. - Woody Allen (1935 - )
It would appear that I have a psychological need to insert a break between work and home and that break requires the some intake ...
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. - Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
December seems to be a month when things happen to me. I don't know if the stars are in sort of alignment before December, if I believed ...
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
"Never hold on hoping that you will benefit from someone else's dream - it inevitably means your dreams don't come true" Ben Ellis 2009
In the next few days will be the 7th anniversary of the time I ceased being an employee and became an entrepreneur, an employee owner of a ...
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
A six-part factual series, presented by Lorraine Kelly and Angus Purden, on Scottish TV will raise awareness of some of the most common emotional health issues, and show the contributors, and those watching at home, what they themselves can do to improve their lives.
http://entertainment.stv.tv/tv/130440-make-me-happier-programme-overview/
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
A monologue from an ex-alcoholic. It is worth watching because for once a 'famous' person tells it straight.
Do you wonder if what he says at the end makes sense? Some of us seem to be able to drink, some of us do not. A study has shown that having a ...
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
I just sort of naturally settled down to 4 to 6 drinks a day (night) and I usually have the higher number if I stay up later - now usually a Thursday night and a Sunday night which is when a number of TV programs I enjoy. The other nights ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
During the following period, I have taken up exercising again, walking to
work and on some days walking back, rewarding myself with a pint or two at the local pub when accomplished prior to arrival home. In the early part of the period, I tried to reinforce my talk and motivate ...
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