Enneagram Test
From Eclectic Energies: Enneagram Type 5 – The Investigator Thinkers who tend to withdraw and observe People of this personality type essentially fear that they don’t have enough inner strength to face life, so they tend to withdraw, to retreat into the safety and security of the mind where they can mentally prepare for their […]
Phases of Burnout
Taken from Wikipedia: Psychologists Herbert Freudenberger and Gail North have theorized that the burnout process can be divided into 12 phases, which are not necessarily followed sequentially, nor necessarily in any sense be relevant or exist other than as an abstract construct. 1.The Compulsion to Prove Oneself Often found at the beginning is excessive ambition. […]
Positive flow
I get a daily “meditation” in my email inbox each day from Livinglifefully.com and one that arrived recently stuck in my mind as one of the things I’ve learned over the past 12 months. That the more you dwell on your faults, the more wrapped up in them you get, there is less room for […]
Frangipani
Our neighbour Jan gave us some Frangipani and Mulberry Tree cuttings from her garden. I put a couple of the Frangipanis into pots and split the other one, so it has to dry out again before I plant them. Did a search on propagating Frangipani, it seems many people get bitten by some sort of […]
Cranky Bob
Had a weird dream the other night. Dreamt I’d sent a message to Rob, our Workplace Health and Safety Officer, about a breach of some kind. Something about the message infuriated Rob and he got stuck into me, called me an idiot. I felt really mindless and stupid. Then the other day at work, Ros […]
A Week in Armidale
Hit the road with my mum and spent a week in Armidale. Enjoyed the time away in a lovely place, where we did lots of walking. Talking about heading back down there a bit earlier next year, so we can take in the autumn colours of the place, and visit my mum’s sister Pamela again. […]