For many years now I have made it my habit to take myself to a quiet place where I can be uninterrupted in thought, prayer and meditation for one hour at the start of my day. This is what I have called my Daily Calm Hour. By prioritizing this in my life, and by making [...]
Frantic people live frantic lives. Stressed people live stressed lives, So many are driven. So many people are over-active. So many people strive. They are anxious – often eating and drinking far too much and working far too long. Now with mobile phones, iPads, laptops demanding the attention of modern life – it is now [...]
In the early 1900s when Ivy Lee advised the managers of Bethlehem Steel to list their top priorities and to then work on tasks in that prioritized order, not proceeding until a task was completed, he was rewarded handsomely. Charles M. Schwab, who was the head of the company at the time, paid Lee $25,000 [...]
‘Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out by religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me – watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or [...]
‘The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson As I walked the beach with my family this week we looked out from the shore, and just two hundred metres away we could see the silhouettes of a dozen dolphins surfing the waves. Over the next ten minutes [...]
‘Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever [...]
As I view God’s creation around me, amidst the order and the chaos, there is evidence of the spontaneous. From my balcony the other day I watched as a black mass moved beneath the waters heading south, not far from the shore. Then appeared the fins of a pod of dolphins feeding in a splashing [...]
A young girl asked the tight ropewalker how he first became involved in his current profession. His response was, ‘Can’t remember really, I think I just fell into it.’ Imagine yourself 20 metres (66 feet) above the ground on a platform, as thousands of faces watch and wait for you to perform. Now imagine taking [...]
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