Archive for the ‘Mental’ Category

It’s my birthday today

Monday, February 7th, 2011

Thanks and here we go again.  Life has certainly changed for me over the last few months and particularly since my separation.  I am currently in the throes of trying not to get buried under the enormity of it all and keep my project – which I also reviewed here ...

Unsatisfied With Your Life: Follow Your Heart

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

I'm not the only one saying this.... If You Are Unsatisfied With Your Life, You Only Have One Choice: Follow Your Heart.

Communication – Necessary For Well-Being

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_767" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="France - By the Lake"][/caption] I cannot believe that it is nearly a month since I posted here - where has the time gone? Maybe my project is turning into an obsession. Anyway, here goes. Last week, I went to visit my sister in France and with the ...

Self Doubting’s Purpose

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."  Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970). If you are a consumer of the countless American success formulas, you will know that the vast majority will educate you to ...

Losing Weight by Brain Power Alone?

Monday, September 13th, 2010

According to Wikipedia, "although the human brain represents only 2% of the body weight, it receives 15% of the cardiac output, 20% of total body oxygen consumption, and 25% of total body glucose utilisation." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain#Brain_energy_consumption).  Assuming of course that working the brain, like working the body, ups energy requirement and ...

Racism, Tribalism, Classism – Prejudice without Substance

Monday, July 19th, 2010

My 60 year plus mother holds some very set view about certain sections of society that may have some basis in experience but most likely does not.  Since she comes for the generation of the great –isms, I assumed that my siblings and I just brushed off these prejudices, sometimes ...

Stupidly Positive

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 ...

Stocktake Time Again – Big Changes on the Horizon

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 ...

The Co-Founder Syndrome

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 ...

Being That Good

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 ...

Unexplained Dreams

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 ...

The Right To Be Happy

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 ...

Why Working Is A Drag

Monday, March 8th, 2010

The number of men applying for teacher training has risen sharply because of the recession, says the body responsible for training teachers.  There was an over 50% rise in the number of men applying to be primary school teachers; see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8550506.stm for the story. I have to ask myself whether the ...

Who’s afraid of big bad death?

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 ...

Travel and Well being

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 ...