Responsibility

Responsibility

  I found myself sitting in a hole recently that was the result of taking up responsibility for something that wasn’t mine. This wasn’t apparent to me initially, all I knew was that I was extremely agitated over a situation. So I sat in that hole. As I sat, I...
Boundaries

Boundaries

Boundaries can be described as something that marks where one area ends and another begins; the point of differentiation, of separation. When referring to personal boundaries, it’s the distinction between self and other. I am here, you are there; two entities....
Courage

Courage

Every first step begins with courage. And the second, and each one after that. Do you consider yourself a courageous person? Courage is easy to recognise in the bigger than life moments that make the news; those human acts of heroism, the feats of endurance, the...
Feeling Stuck

Feeling Stuck

What do YOU do when you get stuck? Confession – I didn’t start off here when I sat down to write. I began with a completely different idea, spent way too long staring blankly at the screen rearranging a few sparse sentences before giving up in disgust and walking away...
Routine

Routine

Routine often gets a bad rap, attracting adjectives such as monotonous, boring, repetitive, unexciting. We have been sold the idea that to have a full, meaningful life it needs to be unfettered; always new and changing. There is a romanticism linked to the ‘free...