Archive for the ‘Mental’ Category

Happy New Year Resolutions!

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Well this is it, 2009 before we could even catch our breaths, everything's back to normal. Have you made any resolutions?  I have, but not because I think that one year turning into another will make it any different, just that it does provide a good excuse to try harder at ...

Does passion require control?

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Many years ago, my wife considered herself a computer widow.  At the time, 'computing' was my hobby - more like a burning passion, but that's a matter of opinion!  Computing is such a wide area but to those around me, I was obsessed with computers.  As I was not in ...

Patience – a disappearing virtue?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Ahem.  Went to the gym this evening and must say I struggled to be motivated to get there and to stay there once I got there.  Put myself under some pressure to make the effort today since I had not been since Saturday and when I weighed myself this morning, ...

Discipline

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

As in my last post, I mentioned the lucky so and so's who have the ability yo self motivate, to inspire themselves with no external influences. All of us can do this but usually only for things we like doing or easy and quick things to do. We also can ...

The Self Stocktake

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Well, occasionally one has to stop and check the results of one’s endeavours.    It is the way we measure our successes and failures and I do not think there is a person on this planet that at some occasion has had to re-assess the position one is in.   All successful ...

From this moment on…..

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->(With apologies to LeAnn Rimes.) All the changes I referred to in the last post, I realise, have led to something better though it may have not felt like it at the time. ...

Workplace unhappiness ‘growing’

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

No shit Sherlock!  See http://www.notthenews.net/index.php/2008/09/02/workplace_unhappiness_growing