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Work/Life Balance
This is such a timely prompt. I have just been sitting in my garden listening to the birds sing as I drank my first cup of coffee, and thought…shouldn’t I be working? Since the first lockdown in 2020, I have worked predominantly from home. For the three years up until…
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I Am A Leader
I am, innately, a leader. It is an intrinsic part of my personality, and one I cannot escape. And yet, when I first saw this writing prompt, I paused. I paused because I know I am a leader but I felt that in saying so, I was somehow being boastful.…
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How Someone Positively Impacted My Life
I’ve had quite a few people have a positive impact on my life, luckily. I’ve had some truly great bosses who have encouraged me, believed in me, and some of whom I have become good friends with. There are and have been some amazing people in my life who have…
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A Small Improvement I Can Make
One small improvement I can make in my life is to adopt a habit of practicing qi gong every day. I intermittently go through a qi gong routine in the morning but I don’t do it daily and I can go lengthy periods of time between ’bouts’ of undertaking it.…
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What Freedom Means To Me
This is a far more intriguing question than I first thought. Because, what does freedom mean to me? Do I have it and didn’t realise it? Or am I completely trapped? Can anyone truly be free? Is anyone truly trapped? The simple answer is, I don’t really know. Because while…
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A Job For A Day
When I first saw this writing prompt, so many different jobs flitted through my head. And I put off writing anything because nothing immediately came to mind for me. It still doesn’t. But what does come to mind is…not what I expected. At all. The jobs that flitted through my…
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The Quote I Live By
‘What is meant to be, will be.’ That is the quote, if it really is a quote because I have no idea where it comes from other than from my grandmother and mother, that I live by. It has served me well when I have remembered it, and when I…
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My Career Plan
What is my career plan? Simply put, I don’t have one and I never have. My career plan looks like the tumbleweed in this image whenever I think of what it is or might be or has ever been. I’m just not wired in the way of being on a…
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What Gives Me Direction In Life
What gives me direction in life now, is me quite simply. I choose the way my compass is pointing now, and increasingly I draw upon information from my mind, body and spirit to do so. And I am finding a real sense of peace, certainty, and confidence in it. As…
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Do I Vote In Political Elections
They say that we get the government that we deserve, and that if we do not exercise our right to vote, not only do we deserve the outcome but we also cannot complain about it. I do agree with that so, the simple answer to this question is, yes. Yes,…
Louisa Simpson 