Surprised By Joy
I remember reading Pollyanna as a child and playing the Glad Game and being interested, but not really knowing how to live like that. It’s taken me a lifetime to change the way I see the world. My natural temperament…
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The Perfection Trap
You are a work in progress, which means you get there a little at a time, not all at once. Some of us are too bound up by wanting success or perfection that we are paralysed by fear of not…
No Risk, No Story
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller There have been lots of occasions where I’ve said yes to doing something and then been completely freaked out about it afterwards. Those times I’ve done those things…
Adventures in Authenticity
The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. David O. Russell Today we went on a canoe tour with a father and daughter team. They invited us to a bonfire…
Transformation is an Adventure
When I look back on my life I see that there have been distinct seasons—each one marked by growth and change. I am not the same person I was in 1985, 1995, 2005 or 2014. I feel like I’ve had…
Stare: being mindful
Today’s adventure involved riding a bike six kilometres to the southern tip of West Island in the Cocos Keeling Islands and snorkelling for two hours before riding back to our accommodation. As we snorkelled we studied the coral…