Winter on the Sunshine Coast can still be cold… But sometimes still warm enough to kick your shoes off… aaaaagh, that’s better 🙂 Thursday 21st June is winter solstice – the shortest day of the year (depending where you are of course). To celebrate and absorb the Power to Withdraw (one of the 21 jewels […]

Discussing ‘mind matters’ in recent Choose to be Calm programs – I thought it might be helpful to refresh an old newsletter I wrote back in 2009, about Free Will… Editing it today, I realise that my new experiences in life are supporting what I suspected back then. Here is my understanding – so far… […]

Walking out from my room in Leura, contemplating self change (my whole life theme)… I saw the sliver of the new moon and began to smile. Being open to bringing in newness in your life on a regular basis – no matter how small – is so important to remain flexible and easy-going with yourself, […]

As Will to Wonder is beginning to take off and more Choose to be Calm projects are being accepted, I need strategies to remain focused and unshakable… Enter, Humility… During the month of May, Humility is the virtue I am to practice in every area of my life – as a means to strengthen that […]

When those times come when life just seems to get the better of you, what do you do? Do you complain, blame situations or allow yourself to be defeated?… Or do you simply get on with it, knowing that this too will become the past? I recently had one of those weeks. Though my body […]

You can not build a house on sand! Sounds logical enough. Yet when we apply the same principle to our own self-worth, we often make changes based on weak foundations. We do a little bit of self improvement, maybe even some inner spiritual work and think we’ve done enough. But then adversity knocks on the […]

What a great virtue to be practicing – Appreciation – sounds simple enough doesn’t it?… But how often do we really stop to ‘smell the roses’? To be authentically appreciative of each moment of each day? I was certainly appreciating these few days out at Chaffey Dam near Tamworth in New South Wales. I am […]

‘Two men staring out through prison bars, one saw mud and the other saw stars’ Oscar Wilde How do you view the world? … Albert Einstein also says “What you see on the screen of your mind, is a preview of life’s coming attractions’… So do you see mud or do you see stars? What […]

I’m enjoying applying this virtue… seeing beauty instead of ugliness in the world is a powerful tool to have under your belt – un-complicates life. And it starts with self care. The more I practice seeing my own inner beauty, the more I see the world as beautiful and unlimited 🙂 Life is how you […]