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Changing the flow
At the moment I am resisting everything that tells me I must do. The stack of papers on my kitchen bench that indicates I must do some filing, the leaves outside the front door that show me I must do some sweeping, the plants in the garden that look at me to re-pot them, the…
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The ‘W’ word
Have you ever committed to doing something that you didn’t particularly want to do but were talked into it? Most of us have. I try not to let myself get talked into things these days, but now and then it happens. Recently, a friend bought a batch of tickets to see a one man musical…
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‘Plan B’
Two years ago when we were in Paris we had the good fortune to discover the Musee d’Orsay closed. What’s that I say? In fact it was to have reopened that very day, after recent renovations, had it not been for an industrial dispute that kept it closed. Of course, initially, we (especially I) were…
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Ten Thousand Hours
Are you excellent at something? Anything? Hard question to answer about oneself as it is rather subjective, but probably most of us have some idea. To become excellent at something most of us must have spent about 10 years or 10,000 hours doing it. And it can’t be just mindless repetition, it needs to be…
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Do it.
The other day I was on a mission to try and save the painting I was working on. It was a painful struggle all day. I even began questioning why I was painting at all. I wasn’t particularly enjoying myself, the results were not satisfying, I would never be a great artist, why, why, why? …
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