More than ever we are pressed to voice our opinion in what is happening in the Middle East now. If one remains silent or indifferent, they are labeled as insensitive. Expressing compassion towards both sides is seen as a hypocritical attempt at political correctness. Taking a stand for one side…
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As I sat here wondering what to write about, considering I have sat here many times to write this article, I realised for the first time in a long time, that the words were just not flowing. Having promised Mark delivery of this article for the last week and a…
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How many of you have played ‘buzzword bingo’ in the boardroom? You know the game, the one made up of every latest word and phrase better suited to the corporate collection of car bumper stickers. In the last decade words such as ‘authenticity’ and ‘authentic self’ have been right up…
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Writing a book can be a lonely and daunting task, especially when every man and his dog has an opinion on how and what your book should be about. Then there is the how you are going to find the time to write it, how to structure the ideas dancing…
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Food, the stuff of dreams and nightmares, and the topic of one of my up-and-coming books. Now we could ask if the world needs yet another book on food, and with the amount of celebrity food books out there, which really do not add anything new to the market, I…
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Who would have thought a brightly coloured little square of paper could have such an impact on someone’s life, or on the lives of so many people around the world? And yet when I look up from my computer screen I am met with a rainbow of these coloured squares…
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And then I fell in love with life all over again. Sometimes we set off on a path, and before we know it, the success it brings has other people rolling out the red carpet, with invitations coming from every which way to appear in the media and be the…
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Looking down at his face, I had this calmness wash over me. Everything started slowing down and I the noise around us disappeared. Sounds like the perfect wistful gaze into a romantic partners eyes, right? Wrong. I had never met this man before, and here he was turning blue, choking…
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Taking back control can mean a plethora of different things depending on who we are, where we were raised and the situation surrounding the control. At the moment with the fear that grips so many people around the world, there are a lot of people doing their absolute best to…
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In this frantically evolving marketplace and volatile world, we could be forgiven for feeling pushed back into our wait-for-normal-to-come-back corners. So many of us keep peering out anxiously to see when might be a wise moment to re-pick up the threads of our highest lives. It’s understandable. Whatever country we’re…
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