Archive for the ‘Mental’ Category

Trying to balance

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

'No-one, even those closest to me, knows what I have had to go through to get to where I am now.  Why then do you resent what I have?' A few weeks before my identity theft saga started (see http://notthenews.net) , I told my mother that I could not find it ...

Under the weather?

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Saturday was my birthday and I didn't do much in the way of celebrations, in fact I didn't really feel in a celebratory mood.  For some reason I woke up with the image of  a blue sky, my children laughing and splashing in a clear blue sea, a white sandy ...

Modern parenting is a bad excuse.

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

News story doing the rounds today about how parents' ambitions in today's society are damaging their children's well being - see http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb/02/children-wellbeing-success for example.  Now, this is not the first time that this sort of discussion has come up and I think it is good that it is debated but ...

Be Prepared

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Scenario:  It is 2015, the world is recovering from one of the last great recession but Europe and the USA are not doing so well.  So many people were laid off in those years and countries led by China and Asia but including African and South American countries picked up ...

Blue Monday Blues

Monday, January 19th, 2009

The 5th of January I wrote and said things where going back to normal.  How I lied!  If anything Christmas time is the worst time for making you break habits you have tried to hard to maintain.  The few days of not following routines are fatal to anything that requires ...

Happy New Year Resolutions!

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Well this is it, 2009 before we could even catch our breaths, everything's back to normal. Have you made any resolutions?  I have, but not because I think that one year turning into another will make it any different, just that it does provide a good excuse to try harder at ...

Does passion require control?

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Many years ago, my wife considered herself a computer widow.  At the time, 'computing' was my hobby - more like a burning passion, but that's a matter of opinion!  Computing is such a wide area but to those around me, I was obsessed with computers.  As I was not in ...

Patience – a disappearing virtue?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Ahem.  Went to the gym this evening and must say I struggled to be motivated to get there and to stay there once I got there.  Put myself under some pressure to make the effort today since I had not been since Saturday and when I weighed myself this morning, ...

Discipline

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

As in my last post, I mentioned the lucky so and so's who have the ability yo self motivate, to inspire themselves with no external influences. All of us can do this but usually only for things we like doing or easy and quick things to do. We also can ...

The Self Stocktake

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Well, occasionally one has to stop and check the results of one’s endeavours.    It is the way we measure our successes and failures and I do not think there is a person on this planet that at some occasion has had to re-assess the position one is in.   All successful ...

From this moment on…..

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->(With apologies to LeAnn Rimes.) All the changes I referred to in the last post, I realise, have led to something better though it may have not felt like it at the time. ...

Workplace unhappiness ‘growing’

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

No shit Sherlock!  See http://www.notthenews.net/index.php/2008/09/02/workplace_unhappiness_growing