Just imagine Imagine having time – on your calendar – to curl up with a book and a cup of tea and just read a book, knowing that everything has been taken care of and will be taken care of, just not at this minute, because this next hour is just yours? Imagine the contentment …
Think about these two different scenarios. DAY ONE: KILLING IT You left the house 10 hours ago and now you’re on the way home. You feel great. All day long you had a great sense of purpose about what you were doing. You planned out your day in advance. At each stage of the day …
I once got 103% in a test. It was in third form Latin. A project assigned over the Easter Holidays on Roman Gods made up 15% of the total mark and I got 18/15 for that because – remembering it now – the Latin teacher himself may not even heard of the Greek Gods that …
For quite some time after I moved to Austria 12 years ago, I was a victim. A victim of the fact that my husband is Austrian. It was such an easy excuse to reach for to cover a myriad of every day problems: “It’s not like this in Ireland” “Irish people just aren’t like this” …
Last week, a client of mine corrected her (male) Partner in a meeting. He didn’t like it, she said, and made it clear that he didn’t like what she had done. When I asked her how she knew he didn’t like it, she said ‘she could tell’. She told me that when the meeting was …
This is what my 5 year old said to me on the way to ski school this morning: ‘Mama, I do want to be a great skier, but I don’t want to be a learner.’ ‘I know exactly what you mean, wee man’, is what I said. Wouldn’t it be so fun to click into …
Who doesn’t love a bit of office gossip? We get to feel connected to the person we are gossiping with and that feels good. Usually, the nature of the gossip gives us a fleeting sense of superiority, schadenfreude or entertainment. All of which are a welcome distraction to what’s going on in our head at …
Does your husband empty the dishwasher? Mine sometimes does and sometimes doesn’t. It used to be an enormous source of contention for me. Not for him, just for me. I like the dishwasher to be emptied at night, just before bedtime. Here’s why. I spend the first 90 minutes or so of my day alone …
‘The true test of a person’s character is what they do when no one is watching’ – John Wooden Do you pretend not to notice that the loo roll is out in the office facilities (or indeed the ones at home, and if you know my husband, please show him this ;)), leaving the cardboard …
They’re not going to find you out because there’s nothing to find out.Your brain just thinks there is. Here’s what’s really going on when you have thoughts like that. For many years at work, I had the feeling of well, fear, that I experienced regularly. The feeling came from a thought that sounded something like this …
