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Aspiration Is Not All There Is
Sunday 11 June Another wasted Sunday… Realise, as the long hot days freakishly repeat themselves, one after the other, that whatever I am doing I really think I ought to be doing something else…The more the sun shines the more obvious it seems that others are making fuller, better use of it elsewhere: possibly at some giant softball game to which everyone is invited except me; possibly alone with their lover in a rustic glade by waterfalls where Bambis graze, or at some large public celebratory event, probably including the Queen Mother and one or more of the football tenors, to mark the exquisite summer which I am failing to get the…
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Building Resilience on the Entrepreneurship Journey
Building resilience and flexibility for strong sustainable social enterprises. Creating a business that supports founders rather than drains them and making change even in the midst of crisis. Grace Quantock’s talk on Building Resilience: Social Enterprise Series sold out. Being aware of her international base, the limited number of tickets at Hay and the accessibility needs of many supporters, Grace has created this online event on Resilience in Business to make the building of resilience accessible to all. Online lecture recording, Hay Festival Speech Video Excerpt, Your Entrepreneurship Journey PDF of exercises and resources by Grace Quantock of Your Entrepreneurship Journey Document. Loading…
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A Wonderful Birthday Party Alternative: Afternoon Tea Party
But you have to, it’s your birthday! They cry. You might get pressure from other people, for whom birthday celebrations look a certain way, but it’s your day and you can choose what to do and how to do it. If people aren’t ok with that and you are struggling to explain, try Pitch Perfect: What’s Wrong with You? to help. Who says birthdays have to be celebrated with alcohol and accolades? Have you noticed that lots of the people who live ‘the high life’ ultimately find it unfulfilling and strip back to simple things? Perhaps your excitement is a letter from a friend, a Healing Box, or photographing a new flower. This…
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Ditching the Game of Life to Celebrate You
Why do we get upset about birthdays? Is it because we have a secret mental list of what we wanted to achieve by this age? Or what we feel we ‘should‘ have achieved? This isn’t The Game of Life, and if you are a Trail Blazer then you will have gone off track at one time or another. You may have done things you never expected and skipped the conventional achievements for something entirely different. Or maybe you feel you’ve missed out on the ‘normal’ aspects of life entirely. And since you felt like it was your right to experience those aspects, you are left feeling cheated and as if…
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Managing the Pressure of Birthdays
In some way, birthdays are like a personal new year. There’s a new start, clean slate, freshly sharpened pencils and another chance to get it right. What pressure! I recently took down one of my favourite yoga books and my coming birthday swam up in my mind. It’s a book of daily meditations for your daily yoga practice, a years worth in fact. And, you know, I have a daily yoga practice… and I felt kind of guilty that Linus had bought me this lovely book years ago and yet I haven’t read it all yet (bad student.) It’s designed as a page per day (I’m not using it correctly,…
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