The new age of ‘victimhood’ mentality is here which is fast becoming a lifestyle choice amongst children and young people in the Western and more affluent societies. It has grown a pace over the past few decades and is often borne on the spoiling of children by stressed, busy and hard strapped parents who…
Category: Education
Leaving Cert – Reflections
As the Leaving Certificate Results arrive, I am transported back to my own school days. I remember it was a challenging time, with dreams and ambitions battling with the need for reassurance that my wishful hopes could become reality. I remember when I phoned about my Leaving Cert Results, (was too scared to go…
WHY I WRITE
Since I was very young, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Although life got in the way at times and I tried to abandon the great idea I had in younger years of being a writer and author, I did so with a conscious awareness that I was somehow…
OUR ‘UNREPEATABLE UNIQUENESS’
Over many years in my talks, seminars and workshops in schools, colleges, communities, businesses,organisations, and in one to one consultations, a key theme has been about consciously embracing and celebrating our ‘unrepeatable uniqueness.’ Why has this been such an important area to share insights with others? It is, because both in my own life and…
Imagining Compassionate Societies
The scenes over the past few days of thousands of people walking for miles and sitting bewildered on railway stations of European Cities, could not but move our hearts to the very fibre of our being. However, of course the scenes we viewed told only a fraction of the awful and horrible experiences that so…
Learning from Life’s ‘Curve Balls’
We have all had them ‘The curve ball’ when we are going through life with an eye on where we want to go and generally feeling good about things. WHEN! suddenly we encounter a problem, situation or new circumstance which derails us or stops us in our tracks. This can happen when we are planning…
Who Did You Say That I Am?
We live in and are part of a ‘Global Village’ where the flow of information is so fast and furious it can seem some times to be in a free fall and we with it. Global modes of communication across the internet, social media forums and training platforms opens us up to a variety of…
WRITER’S BLOCK UNBLOCKED
It is a great moment when the mist rises from the mind of a writer and heart and soul is once again free to gently create. When words once again come easy and flow from the fingers onto the page with the excitement of being at last released from their place of hiding. An experience…
GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY
When making ‘real’ changes in life and in business one of the first things we need so often to do is to ‘Get Out of Our Own Way.’ That may seem like a strange thing to do, but it is exactly what is required if we want to move to a whole new level of…
MINDFUL MOMENTS
So often, life is lived so much through the past or the future that no time is given to consciously living the present moment. The past is gone and the future lies ahead, but the present is here and now. When we take a little time each day to be ‘mindful’ we create space to…
