Archive for the ‘General’ Category
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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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
I have finally called time on the last 10 years of my life. Somehow I knew it would come to this with the recent years' frustrations ensuring that to stay would not be possible. Can I say that I am disappointed? Well yes, I can because my expectations were, maybe ...
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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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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
I am trying to get back in to my walk routine after my unintentional mini break and it has been a mixed bag. Wednesday was very slow and I did feel a bit woozy on the last lap but I persevered and completed. Yesterday, I felt so much better that ...
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
It is quite amazing just how many people take expert advice at face value, even the Government does it. When I mention that I was walking as exercise, people look at me like I have lost it. And yet, walking is good exercise and a few keep fit sites do ...
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
After a 12 day break from walking in the morning, I returned to experience the full colours of Autumn in the trees and on the grounds. I may not like the cold and wet but I do find the colours so much richer and I love it.
With my foot feeling ...
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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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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Another way to break bad habits, dependencies and addictions is with a little help from your friends. Whereas alcohol dependency is likely to be hidden, nicotine addiction is usually more open and people around you are more willing to accept its very addictive nature.
I stopped smoking just over 2 ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
I have also up walking in the morning -except having missed 10 or so days now due to injured leg and the cold/flu. Walking replaced the gym with a few weeks of inactivity in the middle. The gym had to go on two counts, firstly I did not enjoy the ...
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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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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
One Sunday morning after a particular heavy Friday and a light, by my standards Saturday, I got up and went to 'work', hung-over. That's where my family though I was going and I did go to the office, to get away from everything. I took with me a dictation machine, ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
They say that to form a habit or to break one, you need to follow a routine for 21 days. Where do they get this stuff, I don't know? But habits, by their vary nature, are things we do consistently and to break them obviously must not do consistently. The ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Many years ago when I started this blog, I started it as a way to keep track of what I was doing to improve was a rapidly deteriorating life style. I was drinking and smoking way too much and it seemed like I could not stop the downward spiral. I ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
There have been many times in my life that I have been told by various people, even those who claim to be Christians, that I am too kind and too empathetic. That I allow people to take advantage of my weakness and that it will end in tears. To be ...
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