It's here, the day has finally dawned, and I am now officially fabulously 40 It seems pretty amazing to me to have reached this fab age and still feel like a little girl inside for so much of the time. I remember when I was a little girl and 40 seemed unbelievably old, and now it seems so young. It's all relative, just like the passage of time generally: do you remember when you would break up for the Summer holidays from school, and those long weeks would seem like a lifetime? These days you suddenly realise that another week, month or year has passed in what seems like the blinking of an eye...
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I've just returned from Tony & Nicki Vee's Ultimate Intimate Relationship workshop at the Happy House in Austria. I can't begin to tell you what an amazing few days I had. Well, OK, I can and I will! I was lucky enough to be at the Happy House for New Year, as mentioned on a previous post, so I had had a little taster of what was to come. This time, I was chuffed to bits to find that I already knew a few of the folk who were going: Gen from my NLP Practitioner training, Nicola from my Moativational Medicine training, and Jane, one of the founders of the Oxford Yes Group. Are you spotting a pattern here? The personal development world is a small one! Jane and I shared a lift to the airport, where we met up with Gen and her partner, Ken, before heading through security. We bumped into Nicola a little later by the first of our many boarding gates...
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Sunday dawned, bright, clear, and most of all, sunny. Thoughts of going out for a nice walk in the sunshine crossed my mind. Then I noticed it: the sunlight streaming in through the windows. Shining on the dust. Shining on the dirty windows. Shining on the general grubbliness of it all. It was no good, I'd have to clean. And clean I did. Have you ever done this? I'll just clean this bit here, and then you've created a clean patch, which shows up how grubby everything that you haven't cleaned is, so you have to get stuck in to that too. And so it goes on...
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Blimey what a week it's been - I hardly know where to start!
I spent three days last week coaching on the latest Inner Compass NLP Practitioner training, which was a fantastic experience. It was wonderful to have the chance to "put something back", having had such great help from other coaches whilst going through my own training. I also learned a huge amount, from stretching myself to coach people through their tests without actually giving them the answers, to re-visiting and re-learning some of the NLP tools and techniques. It was also great fun, and lovely to meet up with some of the amazing people who have been a part of my journey to date. The only down side was not being able to stay for the entire course, as I had another training course to go to at the weekend...
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I stumbled upon this story again a couple of days ago, which had me in tears of laughter yet again, so after obtaining permission from the author, Daniel Meyer, I thought I'd share it here. This is one of the lesser known hazards of motorcycling...
Squirrel of Death
"I never dreamed slowly cruising through a residential
neighborhood could be so incredibly dangerous!
Studies have shown that motorcycling requires more
decisions per second, and more sheer data processing than nearly any other
common activity or sport. The reactions and accurate decision making abilities
needed have been likened to the reactions of fighter pilots! The consequences
of bad decisions or poor situational awareness are pretty much the same for
both groups too...
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Last night I went to the Oxford Yes Group, where we enjoyed a great talk from Eric Edmeades on Perfect Day Planning. Well I'm happy to say that today has been pretty darned perfect! I started early at the Wantage & District Business Breakfast Club, where I had a lovely chat with Polly Vacher, the author of Wings Around the World
. Polly is an amazing woman who has flown solo around the world not once, but twice, and this book tells the story of her second circumnavigation, this time taking the rather more unusual route via both Poles. To quote from the book, "Despite having only a few years of flying experience, Polly, a
59-year-old mother of three, had already completed a lateral solo
circumnavigation of the world in 2001 for the charity Flying
Scholarships for the Disabled; this second challenge, for the same
charity, would make that achievement look like a casual jaunt."
What an inspiration!
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I went to the rather aptly named Brass Monkey Rally at the weekend. It was actually fairly warm for the time of year on the way down, thanks to some good old English drizzle. Luckily it had stopped raining by the time I got there, which is always handy when putting a tent up. I have to admit to being a little reluctant to go after last year, when sleet made for the most horrendous ride home I'd ever had - I stopped off half way home that time to drink tea and hot soup in an attempt to defrost. That and standing under the hand dryer drying my hair and scarf helped immensely, as did the hand warmers that I put in my pockets to help keep my core temperature up for the last drag home. I'm sure I provided some entertainment for the folk in the services cafe as I did my best impression of a shivering drowned rat! The weather for those that headed South was even worse: they had full blown snow to deal with, which is not a lot of fun when you only have two wheels on the road. We must be mad, riding motorcycles in the middle of Winter to camp out in a field with a bunch of fellow nutters!
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