Category: Mindset
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The Boston Marathon and Mount Everest
What do the Boston Marathon and Mount Everest have in common? They seem to be the two most common stories I hear referred to as an (im)possible dream. A dream so big, the dreamer knows it could take them years to achieve, but one which they believe the sacrifice will…
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Being cruisy in carparks
Yesterday’s post “can drafts can cause migraines?” got mixed responses here, and on Instagram and LinkedIn (where I sometimes post links). Some people were ‘heck yeah’, some were ‘I guess so’ and some were ‘meh…’ – which pretty much sums up all my feelings over the last few weeks I’ve…
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Can drafts cause migraines?
A month ago, while I was walking my two dogs, a lady who was visiting a neighbor up the road stopped me. She wanted to chat to my dogs. After her dog-whispering was complete, she started up a conversation with me. She mentioned she wasn’t feeling that well and began…
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Living in the grey (or orange) zone of life
Our language tends to favor a binary (on/off or 1/0) version of events. Life is good/bad, the sky is clear/overcast, people are heroes/villains, decisions are right/wrong, play a game and you’re a winner/loser, and in our final hour we may well turn out to be saved/damned. If you used traditional…
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Press the (fishy) doorbell – then clap – please!
The internet is a weird and wonderful place, no doubt about it. The other day when I was on Tumblr I read a fantastic post about a fish-doorbell. Yep, you read that correctly. In the Netherlands they have lots of canals, and on those canals they also have ‘locks’ which…
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We are ALL influencers
After spending a few weeks on Instagram I have become hyperaware of ‘influencers’. In Australia, and in my line of work, I don’t really hear much about them, except the occasional story when one gets arrested returning from an overseas travel trip that ‘sponsors’ paid for (sponsors who turned out…
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Being out of sync with the rest of the world
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve noticed that the blogosphere is overflowing with foreign phrases such as “snow melt” and “frost thaw”, and pictures of blooming flowers, including those on my new-blogger-friends Amy and Edward’s pages. “Spring has sprung!” all the pictures declare. Only it hasn’t. It’s the start…
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World Health Day
This Sunday, the 7th of April, is World Health Day, and since I tend to be a Monday-to-Friday blogging kinda gal, I thought I’d better mention it today before we head into the weekend. Occupations tend to run in families. On my side of the family-tree there are two architects,…
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Domino thinking and anxiety
After I posted yesterday’s note where my mind was ‘spinning out’, I realized that some of you might think I’m a bit of a looney. That may be true, but I also trained myself to think that way – for better or for worse. When I was at university and…
The Mindful Migraine 