Category: Blog
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Prison Break…
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times? Prison Break has to be my favourite TV series Drama. I recall vividly the first time I saw this show in the early mid 2000’s, I was in high school and suddenly this riveting, mysterious and utterly clever show burst onto television screens.…
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When it’s all been said and done..
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Dear Me, When it’s all been said and done.. when you look back on this life what do you see? I write this letter as a poignant reminder reflecting on the choices you made, the sacrifices you gave, the memories you made and the people you saved? Do…
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Right Priorities
What is the last thing you learned? I was talking to my best friend and out of our discussion I re-learnt the importance of having the right priorities in life! You may think this would be an obvious realisation humans would have.. but if it were true.. there wouldn’t be so many people and companies…
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Failure to Success..
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Apparent Failure.. If we were to see ourselves from outside our own bodies we would find us to be quite curious creatures. I was contemplating the notion that each of us can never observe our own face… all we can see is…
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A Lesson Learned is a Friend Earned..
Ironically, I was talking to my best friend about friendship and the beautiful bond it affords and also the pitfalls if we don’t understand the nature of friendship. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell We all have heard this quote about what…
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Nurturing Relationships
Sshh.. listen up closely! What you’re about to read is the direct result of personal experience and life lessons.. so enjoy the ride. Most people imagine themselves to be good, generous, galant… certainly not selfish or inward facing. Yet, the myriad of issues we all face in life gives a lie to this myth that…
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Xquist Xperience
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? It is said that painful memories, more so than joyous ones, are seared into our mind…I have found this holds true for experiences as well. You may too find yourself vividly narrating trauma or deeply painful experiences, yet the laughs you have shared with a now…
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True Love..
What is true love? Most of us wouldn’t know it if it smacked us in the face.. Our perceptions of the world around us are shaped by external stimuli, so much so that we end up with a heavily skewed and confused picture of life and love. At the risk of being one more voice…
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My Teenage Self Listen Up..
What advice would you give to your teenage self? Listen up my teenage self…hindsight affords us innumerate opportunities to do things differently…but I will focus on what’s most important. Time is the most precious commodity! Learn to harness it… “How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here…
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Life Goals & Life Roads..
Along this sojourn of life, I have come to contemplate the importance having goals and the purpose they serve in guiding us as travellers on life’s uncertain roads. Robert Frost best captured the nature of life in his literary masterpiece, “The Road Not Taken.” “I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages…
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