Don’ts of Life

Have you ever been in a workplace situation when you felt you really had little opportunity to speak your mind? This can come about because your contribution and ideas are drowned out and overlooked by those above you in the company pecking order. Too many voices. Too many pulls and pushes. The worst position I’ve […]

Don’t know about you but I’ve been catapulted out of a State, a job and a Church through no fault, event or wrong doing on my part. It took a while to work it out but my lived experience has taught me to know that when you’re ‘chucked’ out the reason can be the most

Some of the finest and significant things in our lives have been small – at the start. Small steps, small parcels, small gems, small beginnings, a series of small steps and even small cars. It is the small things which can become significant times. moments, memories and foundational steps for a chosen pathway. You can’t

So many mismatches in communication can be traced back to wrong and misinformed presumptions and assumptions. We need to always take a step back, clear the air, check the facts and make sure when we start important communications, we understand the premises of the receiver. If we are the sender of the message, does the

It’s so easy to cruise. So easy to assume our precious family and friends will still be with us tomorrow. Every day is a gift – the present. Every day has moments to remember. Moments we presume will come again. Don’t ever take for granted what you have today, because tomorrow it just might not

We don’t always see how others see us. We are often oblivious to the impression and image we project to the world around us. It’s our own limited thinking which keeps us restricted and bound inside a prison of our own making. Many times we can’t forgive ourselves of the things we are ashamed. It’s

Giving up is easy. It can be a short pause or a punctuation mark but either way, putting plans aside can be a sign of desperation, impatience or lack of tenacity. Staying the course requires determination, persistence, stickability, focus and constant eyes on the prize. Achieving completion of what we commence hits a ‘sweet spot’.

Don’t trust your tongue when your heart is bitter. Hush till you heal. Slowing down our thoughts and tongues is imperative because we cannot retract words already spoken. Once the words are released into the atmosphere and audible to others, they can never return. What’s said is said. Concise and few words are impacting. There

Complacency leads to inactivity and lifelessness. It’s a slothful type of emotion which drains excitement, dampens vision and robs joy from every ambience it enters. There is no initiative where complacency lives; ideas grow stale and mission becomes stagnant. Just around the corner from complacency is depression followed by the slow death of one’s dreams.

With little knowledge we often presume our assessment is right. We often don’t check the facts, seek further evidence, get another perspective or even sleep on it. Waiting just one day to recollect thoughts and give our mind the chance to reconsider our view is a wise way forward. Sleep clears the mind. We wake