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Friday, July 16th, 2010
We do not need to look for statistics to prove that the rate of marriage breakdowns is growing. Many of us have many have experienced it ourselves or have close family and friends who have and those of us with children will know that a significant proportion of their classmates ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Here is one man's view of how the simple, not necessarily the easy, can make you happy. Though written from the sense of the simple home in the Brazilian favelas compared to the high life in the USA, it is the emphasis on simplicity, difficulty and community that the sense ...
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
A Buckinghamshire man diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2006 who won £10,000 betting he would be alive years later, died at the age of 60 a few months short of collecting another £10,000 (BBC News - Buckinghamshire man who bet to beat cancer dies). On the face of it, it ...
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
If you walked into one of the most successful people in the world's home or office, would you expect to find row after row of self help DVDs/CDs and books? Have you seen any on MTV's ‘Cribs’ and 'Who lives in house like this?' Thought not.
Americans spent $11 billion in ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
“This notion — that material investment is somehow more important to life than personal investment — is exactly what leads so many of us to believe we could never afford to [insert whatever it is you personally want to do]” with apologies to Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding, for paraphrasing.
One ...
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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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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Apparently Naomi Campbell goes on the maple syrup diet – syrup mixed with cayenne pepper, lemon juice and water – three times a year. Beyoncé is said to have done that one as well adding laxative tea every night and a sea-salt water in the morning. Jennifer Aniston is, allegedly, ...
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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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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch ...
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. [Lois McMaster Bujold]
Despite my dislike for ‘reality’ TV, I do occasionally watch programs like ‘Pop Idol’ and ‘X Factor’ mainly because the family with 2 budding singers ...
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
I have always had a bit of unease whenever I hear of Western countries attempting to tell third world countries, particularly African countries about how they should run their economies, their politics and all other ‘civilised and modern’ ways of improving their lot. As we have seen with the ‘credit ...
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
‘I am going to be a star’.
Many young people dream this at some point in their lives. Sometimes we try and discourage them and in other cases we encourage them. Sometimes, reality sets in and they settle for what’s on the plate. Sometimes, as seen on such TV shows as ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
If you regularly read my blog, you will know that I tend to take anything sold by the ‘quote a minute’ self help American gurus with a large pinch of salt. One of the central planks of the success brigade is that if you decide where you are going, the ...
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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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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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