As a parent I’ve rapidly learnt that we are not here to teach our children but learn from them. This is none more apparent when discovering that children laugh on average 146 times a day, whilst adults laugh just four times. Does this point to the serious business of growing up or us simply taking life too seriously? Draw your own conclusions but whilst doing so let’s all try to bring up the average for our team by doubling our laughter count, starting today.
Archive for October, 2008
Cheer up!
Monday, October 27th, 2008Our Greatest Teachers
Friday, October 24th, 2008The financial crisis is one of the most profound teachers of our time. Whether in America, Iceland, the UK, the rest of Europe, Asia or beyond it is showing us that everything in this world is interconnected and we cannot survive without considering each other and pulling together. Boundaries, flags and the “me culture” ultimately count for nothing. The more important lesson is that greed created the problems, fear magnified it but neither play a part in the solution. Although we are just students, as guardians of our planet, we should be inspired to know that we finally ready to learn from these lessons.
“Slow down you move too fast. You gotta make this moment last”
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008The credit crunch could be a good thing. We might start living life at half the speed we currently do, which means we would only be consuming the world twice as fast as we should.
Financial crisis
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008The financial crisis is one of the most profound teachers of our time. Whether in America, Iceland, the UK, the rest of Europe, Asia or beyond, it is showing us that everything in this world is interconnected and we cannot survive without considering each other and pulling together. Boundaries, flags and the “me culture” ultimately count for nothing. The more important lesson is that greed created the problems, fear magnified it but neither play a part in the solution. Although we are just students, as guardians of our planet, we should be inspired to know that we are finally ready to learn from these lessons.
Don’t Save the Planet
Monday, October 20th, 2008I’ve come to realise that we don’t need to “Save The Planet”. The planet will be fine without us. We need to save humankind. The solution lies in all of us taking 100% responsibility for everything we do every minute of every day in order to start healing our home, a home we are consuming faster than it can replenish itself. The starting point? Gratitude. The minute we become grateful for what we already have in life, we shift our focus from a constant desire for more to a realisation that we can have a much higher quality of life with less. There is no greater love we can give to our children and their future. Today, write down five things you are grateful for and see how different it makes you feel.
Life
Friday, October 17th, 2008The question is not what you can get out of life, but what life can get out of you.
Finding Happiness
Thursday, October 16th, 2008In our short lives, we don’t have time to waste trying to find an ever-elusive happiness outside of ourselves through material possessions and status. True happiness only lives within and rediscovering it every day is our lifetime’s work
The Gap Between Imagination and Reality
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008A thought is only a thought until you believe it. Question any thought which doesn’t serve you before giving it permission to become your reality.
The Fear Thief
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Fear of the future only robs you of the present
Time of crisis
Monday, October 13th, 2008In time of a crisis, we have the opportunity to become emotionally strong.
