If it’s going to be…
The Speaker Said… A few years ago I was in a motivational conference and the speaker kept repeating the phrase “If it’s going to be – it’s up to me”. I puzzled over that for a few days wondering if……
Tag: retirement
Retiring right
The way Australians approach retirement planning is in desperate need of review. If you Google “Retirement in Australia”, the first page is filled with:- Advertisements for places to live in retirement, A Government site that talks about pensions and taxation,……
Documenting your life in photographs
Our Slides. Most of us have years of slides stored in slide boxes throughout the house. I confess to having a cardboard box with probably many thousands of slide boxes in it. Many of those slides are of landscapes that……
Be a Real Man
Since early in my life, the world has told me to be “a real man”. By that they meant – don’t cry, hold your feelings inside and basically get over whatever is happening to you in your life. But as I……
Turn Turn Turn
If you’re a regular on this website, you will remember that at the end of last year my family headed off to the northern hemisphere to get our first ever white Christmas. I must admit that after sitting for years……
You need this more than you realise
Flourishing Can Only Happen With Others. Writing in his book “Flourish” about positive psychology, Martin Seligman says “very little that is positive is solitary.” * He points out that the last time you laughed uproariously, the last time you……
The Problem of Retirement
The Big Deal for Retired Blokes. There is one thing that bothers many retired men. It seems that when you retire from a busy life, a hole develops in your life. You feel hemmed in by the very freedom you……
Retiring right
The way Australians approach retirement planning is in desperate need of review. If you Google “Retirement in Australia”, the first page is filled with:- Advertisements for places to live in retirement, A Government site that talks about pensions and taxation,……
Documenting your life in photographs
Our Slides. Most of us have years of slides stored in slide boxes throughout the house. I confess to having a cardboard box with probably many thousands of slide boxes in it. Many of those slides are of landscapes that……
Be a Real Man
Since early in my life, the world has told me to be “a real man”. By that they meant – don’t cry, hold your feelings inside and basically get over whatever is happening to you in your life. But as I……
Turn Turn Turn
If you’re a regular on this website, you will remember that at the end of last year my family headed off to the northern hemisphere to get our first ever white Christmas. I must admit that after sitting for years……
You need this more than you realise
Flourishing Can Only Happen With Others. Writing in his book “Flourish” about positive psychology, Martin Seligman says “very little that is positive is solitary.” * He points out that the last time you laughed uproariously, the last time you……
The Problem of Retirement
The Big Deal for Retired Blokes. There is one thing that bothers many retired men. It seems that when you retire from a busy life, a hole develops in your life. You feel hemmed in by the very freedom you……