Announcing The All New 100% YOU!
At heart we are all Real Simple People. We seek security, yearn for love, hope for financial freedom, and have a job or role that we feel truly contributes to the world, as well as staying as healthy as possible so we can enjoy all life has to offer. It’s in our bones and our [...]
How To Live As A Victor And Not As A Victim
I was once a loser. Not because I failed at anything I put my mind to, but because I put my mind to being a failure. I chose to look for (and find) evidence that others were better then me or more successful than me, that my efforts wouldn’t amount to much, plus my dirty [...]
When Enough Is Enough
Yesterday was my birthday. A perfect excuse to take the day off and not give work a second thought. To relax, do what I wanted for the day, and wind down. Which I gratefully did! But, I badly needed to. Recently I had been grinding out 80 hour weeks putting the finishing touches to my [...]
5 Reasons Why Being Alone Is Brilliant
How do you feel when you are all alone? When there’s only you and no-one else? Probably thinking you are a bit cut off and isolated. Forgotten in some way perhaps. That’s normal; we humans are tribal and prefer to be together in person and find a myriad of ways to engineer this be it [...]
The Humour Tumour
Man in a queue in a coffee shop. It’s a busy business fair and lunchtime approaches. Staff are go-go-go. He attempts to break the tired mood by telling a joke, a gentle quip. I’m amused, it’s funny. The woman next to me smirks too. The girl behind the counter doesn’t. She looks sullen and only [...]
The Lotion Of Emotions
Emotions have a bad press. Normally associated with being out of control. A wreck. All over the place, too tearful and over the top. Or flip reversed – Polyanna positivity and goofyness dominating. You know, annoyingly ‘shiny happy people’ stuff and feeling good about everything? Neither, mercifully, are true where emotions are concerned. We tend [...]
Where Does The World Start And Where Do You Stop?
We’re talking boundaries here. Where life and the world infect us and our personal world. Taking over our identity and impersonating us. It’s as common as the cold. We move from having a job title to ‘being’ the job title. Or happily declaring that we are a ‘mum to 3 kids’ (as well as quoting [...]
The Definition Of Beauty
Beauty is everywhere. Sure, it may normally conjour up artistic human attractiveness. But beauty is more clever than that. And more wide ranging. It happens to be part of the very fabric of life. The ingredient that binds. Take a bright London morning. The sun bouncing laser like off the bluest of waters of the [...]
The Art Of Contribution
Contribution is what we do. Take Baker Street, London, on a cold, cheerless January afternoon. A young council worker sweeping the street clean of litter. Whistling as he does with a broad grin on his face. No piece of paper missed. Not one wrapper escaped him. He pushed his cart on another few yards and [...]
Simplify Then Simplify Again
Have we the ability to simplify? In a modern, technologically driven information age, can we drop complicated? When we have to. And recently we’ve had to. The global downturn has meant the need to shed. Jobs, costs, working practices, even finanical habits. Yet, we are still alive, but just a little leaner now. Businesses who, [...]
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