Urban Goats Keep on Learning
Goats have been domesticated for thousands of years and in recent decades they have started to become popular as pets. Goats are well established in most societies and some are becoming fully independent, adapting to their urbanised surroundings and (almost) blending in unnoticed.
Learn to Accept Help and Spread Happiness
Accepting help might ease the burden but we often reject it. The thing is, a casual refusal is easy to give, but it overlooks that giving is a two-way interaction.
What People Regret When It’s Too Late.
As we go through life how often do we put things off. It's never too early to start. In the words of a palliative care nurse who has spend many years in the company of people is the last weeks of their lives, their five most common regrets are things we'd probably all say today, so why wait 'til its too late to do anything about it?
It Is the Silly Season. Use It!
The summer months (in the UK at least), are often called The Silly Season, because, I guess, all the serious people are on holiday. The phrase originally referred to the period when the law courts and parliament were in recess. More recently it has been associated with frivolous stories in the media, journalists scraping the bottom of the news barrel for something, anything, to write about (now that we have 24 hour news but the same sized barrel this is no longer only a summer phenomenon, but that's another story). ...
The Need to Blame is a Slippery Slope
We all have a tendency to blame, though we often disguise it. It tends to be low-grade, harmless on a day-to-day level, even if it does feed a lot of arguments and rancour. Scapegoating, on the other hand, ir potentially much more dangerous.
How Judgements Can Provoke Attack
I was once attacked on London Bridge station for giving money to a homeless person. Verbally attacked – not physically – harangued might be e better word. “Don’t you know", she yelled, "that there is a shelter across the street for people who need help? You are irresponsible and just fuelling a drugs habit!” I responded by saying that, as habits go, taking drugs might be less harmful to others than attacking someone for an act of compassion. It didn’t go down well. I may be smug about my riposte, ...
Trying Can Be Hard Work, Best Avoid It
The language we use unconsciously anticipates our outcomes. Some words seem harmless enough, but they are infused with failure.
Personal Change – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Personal change may not go smoothly so Understanding the natural ebb-and-flow helps to normalise perceived setbacks.
How to Show Empathy
What is the difference between empathy and sympathy, and why does on bring us together while the other drives us apart? It takes Dr Brené Brown just over two minute to explain in this video.
