Jan
04
It’s a rainy old morning at the beach today. We got up early, went for a walk before the rain came and had a great cook up for breakfast. Then we just sat here and were having a quiet morning…
Dec
28
Like a lot of New Zealanders I am writing this from a beach. In fact I am sitting in exactly the same place as I was at this time last year. I noticed the holiday hasn’t really started for some…
Dec
28
Dec
24
Ellen Goodman said, “We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the…
Dec
23
Check out this articlie I read at hamburgeruniverse.com Religion fascinates me and Miceal Ledwith is someone who studies religion and goes back further than most. This makes for very interesting reading. I am not a big church goer or very…
Dec
23
George Bernard Shaw said, “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea…
Dec
22
Charles Dickens said this about Christmas, “I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year,…
Dec
22
Dec
21
Jane Haddam said, “In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.” Self-esteem is a term that hinders because of it’s lack of a concrete concept to build on –…
Dec
21
Last weeks MondayMotivator got a huge response. I received hundreds of emails ranging from “Keep it up” to the time I send it out to Facebook and more. If you are one of the people who emailed me, thank you….