The word metaphor gives me cause to smile when I hear or read it. I love plays on words and it takes me back to my NLP training with Dr Richard Bolstad and his play on words … “What’s a meta for?” Auntie Google’s dictionary defines a metaphor as ‘a figure of speech in which a…
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Every morning for the last few weeks I’ve been watching the changes happening in our trees. When the sunrise hits them just right, the leaves glow like precious jewels above the leaf litter on the ground. Every morning for the last few weeks I’ve been saying to myself “I’d love to take some photos of…
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Serendipitous: occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way. There’s been some interesting serendipities this year, especially when it comes to me giving presentations. One of my favourite stories comes from the book “Who ordered this truckload of dung?” by Ajahn Brahm. Imagine you return home from your work today to find a truckload…
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I’m using the Poppa D strategy to get things done! Growing up we lived next door to my grandparents who had a couple of acres of incredible gardens. Imagine large sweeping concrete driveways surrounded by gardens, lawns, trees leaning over laden with fruit, grapevine tunnels, gooseberry bushes nestled in amongst the stone walls, fuchsia houses…
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Yesterday I received a newsletter from Robyn Pearce, NZ’s very own ‘Time Management Queen’. In it she paid tribute to those impacted by the tragic events that occurred in Christchurch last week and she shared a blog written by her cousin Susie Laery. I was moved by Susie’s words and I’ve been given permission to reproduce her blog…
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It’s great weather for being out in the garden and over the last few weeks I’ve taken a close interest into what’s happening with the four abundant swan plants in our garden. To understand the first part of this story, you might want to read instalment one in an earlier blog. Magic happened again as…
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When it comes to maintaining ‘things’ like vehicles and machinery we usually have some form of a process such as a warrant of fitness check or a reminder to pause at a certain number of hours or kilometres. From a health perspective, these checks happen regularly for check-ups, immunisations and shots, blood tests, checks on…
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What are you noticing around you? Do you like monarch butterflies? Have you noticed that there’s not that many around as there used to be? I have … we got four fully mature, large,luscious, foliage-abundant swan plants courtesy of a friend. Despite my lack of gardening prowess, these have grown nearly taller than me, with…
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How did your first day back at work go? Today is officially my first day back at my desk and I’m on a mission this year. 2018 threw us a few challenges due to a couple of unexpected events and I knew I was allowing them to consume far too much of my head space,…
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Yesterday I was stung by one of those nasty paper wasps on the back of my left hand while I was weeding. Until then, I’d forgotten just how much they burned! And at the time, I couldn’t remember what my reaction was … do I get an allergic response? I had that moment of ‘eeekiness’…
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