My neighbourhood, like many others globally, has really pulled together during 2020. For the first time in my life, I’m part of a community, strangers brought together by proximity.  A WhatsApp group was formed to assist our community and each other during a crisis, but it’s evolved into something else. Complete strangers share information and …

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What do you do when you need to adapt? To shift your thinking? Theoretically people don’t like change. It throws us. But why? Humans are in a state of perpetual change. We innately know how. It begins at birth. New parents witness it continually as their child evolves before their eyes. The difference between birth …

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We as adults are constantly accusing the current generation of being entitled. We carry on about how they need to be more resilient. Schools are having speakers come in to teach them this invaluable human trait. My son said to me last week “we’re probably going to get blamed for all of this Mom because …

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With a background in design and colour it’s part of my psyche and something I can’t escape. Years ago, while doing some work with a woman involved with the Sydney Olympics, she said to me “Designers have Pineapple Eyes”. I thought this was an interesting analogy. What she meant was designers literally see everything, constantly. …

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Have you ever felt so lost and alone that you didn’t know which way to turn? So overwhelmed that you were frozen, not knowing what to do first? I have. Experiencing someone I loved taking his life, altered my perspective forever. My emotions dominated my every thought, sitting on my skin, inside me, all around …

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To be resilient today is highly respected. We admire it in those who have it. How do we obtain this elusive trait? Wait for a trauma and hope we bounce back? Put our body to the test? Both, pretty extreme. LATIN: Re:back  Salire: jump, leap. A bit later it evolved to ‘springing back’. We aren’t …

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Loving yourself is like admiring a piece of great abstract art. It just works, without explanation. It always cracks me up when I am in an art gallery viewing a seemingly ‘simple’ painting and someone says “I could have done that!”. I say well do it then. This is the difference. That person created the …

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The season of love is before us. Flowers, chocolates, romantic dinners. To tell someone you love them people go out of their way, on that one special day. Some say it’s far too commercial, others embrace it and line up for flowers. Either way it’s the world we live in. To the men that say …

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Aretha said it best. Rodney Dangerfield had fun with it. But how annoying is it to have a teacher or boss who demands respect but doesn’t earn it?

As in tennis, the bounce is all important. Bouncing back in life is something that takes the resilience of a tennis player. Picture Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer and you know what I mean. Injured, exhausted and still finding a way to play, win or lose. We love watching them fight back. The amazing news …

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