Category Archives: Essential

Trust

By Naomi | Published: 09/12/2011
I’ve thought a lot about how we make decisions recently and how I’m not very good at being decisive. I’ve wondered how I can get better at it and I’ve decided the answer is simple. I just have to trust myself.
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Accidental

By Naomi | Published: 06/05/2011
I took my girls to a friend’s birthday party recently. The friend was a fairly new one from school so it was the first time we had been to her house. What struck me on walking through the front door was the complete and utter lack of stuff. Apart from the party bunting and carefully [...]
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Kibera

By Naomi | Published: 10/03/2011
What can’t you live without? Imagine for a moment that you are a celebrity (maybe you are!) and your interview ends with this question. What would you say? The answers slip so easily off the tongue. Even in the every day it’s so easy to say “Oh I can’t live without my….”. It’s often said [...]
Also posted in Improve, Life, Reduce | 2 Comments

Nothing

By Simon | Published: 23/06/2010
I was watching a documentary recently and the narrator made the, fairly common, statement about some people living somewhere seemingly being happy despite having “nothing”. I seem to hear that comment a lot and yet, for some reason, it really struck me this time.
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Hub

By Simon | Published: 09/02/2010
In days gone by people used to gather around the fireplace. Fire was the centre of people’s lives, whether they were camping outdoors or getting together as a family in their homes. Over time this focus changed. For most people, their television became the hub of their lives, the place that they most often gathered [...]
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