‘We have nothing to fear except fear itself.’ Franklin D Roosevelt. There are plenty of quotes about fear. And a few acronyms too: FEAR standing for False Expectations Appearing Real. Another version of this is False Evidence Appearing Real. More recently I heard a new one: Future-imagined Emotion Appearing Real. Human beings are born with [...] Read more »
Back to Basics
This past weekend I was reminded of the basics of living and as usual, it brought me up short to stop, notice, take stock and decide what to do differently. It was like a refrain from the past. One of my managers back in South Africa always used to say to me: ‘Back to basics, [...] Read more »
Facing a Difficult Conversation?
So someone commented… ‘Your site is about difficult conversations, how to have those tough conversations, the one’s you’d rather not have for fear of the damage it can do, yet you seem to write about everything except that’. Good point. How does what I blog about here relate to tough conversations? Now I’ll do that [...] Read more »
Light from Many Lamps
Actually, Light from Many Lamps is the title of one of my most prized books. I was presented with this book as a reward for hard work at the end of my final school year. It is, as it says on the cover, ‘a treasury of inspiration selected from the wisdom of the ages’, [...] Read more »