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I was out walking again today, and as ever, it taught me a few things of broader application.  The number of times today that we were happily marching along a clear, straight path, and according to our plan, we were meant to proceeding along a straight path… so no problem, right?  Wrong!  Sometimes, and in […][...] read more » When being on track is being lost…

Long ago, when I was little, ladies played patience.  My mother used to play with a paired pack of miniature cards sold for just this purpose and I learnt from her.  The younger generation will recognise this as the ever-present Solitaire installed on every Windows computer.  We have all played it occasionally when sufficiently bored […][...] read more » A lesson in patience from my wife

In an earlier blog one of my correspondents was talking about how changes in society are affecting the environment in which our children are growing up.  Whether you are running a business or just reading self-help books we are all exhorted to set and pursue goals.  Some people would have us believe that all we […][...] read more » Goals v Acceptance

  This is a video that explores some of the ideas of yesterday’s blog.  I’d be very interested to know whether the video format adds anything for you and how you feel about it…[...] read more » Video Blog: Lost in the dark

As a keen walker and fan of all those survival-type programmes, one of the things they talk a lot about is what to do when you are lost.  One of the hardest thing in the world to do is realising that continuing to go forwards may not be a good idea.  We all like to […][...] read more » Lost in the dark?

When you are a feeling stuck, and the changes you are looking for just aren’t occurring there are two metaphors that spring to mind for me.  The first is the tar pit.  These were common in prehistoric times and creatures used to wander into these sticky black, death-traps and, once enmired, they were stuck for […][...] read more » Is a Tar pit or just Winter?

Some thoughts about he nature of clouds and what they tell us about focusing on what is really important Technorati Tags: Clouds,focus,goals,journies[...] read more » Video Blog: Have you got your Head in the Clouds?

A friend left this comment on my blog, which contained this sentence “I started thinking about the millions of stones/pebbles, how each was different, very different & yet if you lift your eyes the beach looks golden & could be a continuous strip of bronzed sand”.   And that got me thinking, I bet each of […][...] read more » Are you a pebble?

I was out walking again today along the beautiful South Downs Way, near Cocking; despite the slight overcast, the views were phenomenal.  It occurred to me that walkers, like the rest of us, are busy trying to ‘find our way’.  We talk about ‘losing our way’ too.  Then I looked down, and realised that I […][...] read more » Finding myself part 2

  As regular readers will know, I am a keen walker.  One of my walks usually involves some planning.  I  plot out the route on PC mapping software [Memorymap] and download that to a GPS [Satmap].  Some are routes I create, others I find in books and magazines.  I often don’t know the walk and […][...] read more » Finding for myself