Pictured above, snowdrops in our garden, just beginning to spread their carpets of beauty in the first month of the new year. Snow has not yet fallen, but the snowdrops are creating the elegance of white calm on the ground. In various social media spaces lately, I've seen fleeting mentions of a ten year challenge. … Continue reading Snowdrops And Fortitude
Life Skills
In The Winters Of Life
In the Winters of Life, everything shows up more clearly. Seasons come and seasons go. When we pare it all back to the basics, we see what really matters ... but there is also much that cannot be seen with average sight or understanding. Sometimes we have to take it deeper and check in on … Continue reading In The Winters Of Life
Proverbs of Leadership
Awake early, I wanted to read my 'instruction manual', fully intending to focus on the chapter appropriate to the date. Instead, I was drawn to writings around, but not within, the central point that I'd thought I would be reading through. Thus, rather than reading the chapter of Proverbs for the seventeenth day of … Continue reading Proverbs of Leadership
Owning My Purpose
From a young age I have written in journals. When one needs to try to sort out one's thoughts about anything, I have found writing in my journals to be the very best way to clear my mind and to record what my heart is saying at the time. It is not always easy to … Continue reading Owning My Purpose
Where The Light Comes In
Wherever the light gets in, that's the place to put your focus. Go to where the light pours out for refreshment of your soul. Be around those people whose words and deeds bring hope, healing, calm, grace and success. Keep it simple and be mindful. The strongest foundations are what support the tallest buildings, … Continue reading Where The Light Comes In
Brain Magic
I saw this picture of a brain recently (source of image unknown) and it fascinates me. Did you know, our brains are incredible organisms - yes, organisms, not organs - with the most wonderful capacity for renewal and change? Our conscious brain can direct our nonconscious brain (which is the powerful engine driving us to … Continue reading Brain Magic
Think The Right Thing
"Think the right thing." 💛 Do we realise how powerful our thoughts are, how we influence much in our lives by how we think? One of my methods for dealing with diabolical situations, is to find points of humour and I easily laugh with myself. When we laugh, tension is released and we feel so … Continue reading Think The Right Thing
No guilt. No shame. No condemnation.
In a slightly stronger than usual tone ... "No guilt, no shame, no condemnation", a phrase I often hear in a life coaching forum, most certainly brings calm. If we're not where we need to be nor even desperately want to be, we must NOT carry blame. Our thinking cannot change everything in a flash. … Continue reading No guilt. No shame. No condemnation.
The Holly Tree Tales 