“The Whole News” Blog
Opening our minds to greater awareness and depth
Managing Our Expectations as a Way of Avoiding Conflict
One of my ex-writing students is a Marketing Manager and we’re doing an exchange of services at the moment. Something I really appreciate about Ellen is the cleanness of her communication style. In one of our early conversations she...
How Clean Are You? – Health, Values, & the Inner-Outer War
A friend of mine reckons that water is only good for washing dishes. His beverage of choice is champagne, and his life philosophy is that he’s 'here for a good time, not a long time'. It sounds good and it’s very amusing but I suspect that when his body...
Kids and Money and Keeping Our Word
‘Riches, my boy, don’t consist in having things but in not having to do something you don’t want to do, and don’t you forget it. Riches is being able to thumb your nose.’ - Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey I was at a business networking...
God Doesn’t Throw Fish – How My Son DIDN’T Lose His License
You’ve probably heard the proverb, ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime’. It’s a good one. It makes sense at an everyday human level, but if we delve a little more deeply,...
‘You are so like your mother / father!’
How do you feel when somebody makes that comment? Do you squirm or smile? Do you feel as if you’ve been criticised or as if you’ve received a compliment? For the moment let’s not get distracted by the ‘facts’ regarding how upstanding and admirable or how despicable...
My New Year’s Resolution to ‘Under-Achieve’
I don’t know about you but I arrived at the end of last year feeling quite tired and burnt out. Over Christmas/New Year, I was tackling so much less that I began to deeply relax… and a digestive issue cleared up all by itself… It occurred to me that it would be...