OK, so I’ve now discovered a fail-safe way of waking up happy. All we’ve got to do is to emulate my niece’s 3 year old daughter – Ruth (better known as Ruthie). Anna – that’s my niece – went to wake up her son Harry (5 years
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Dear me from 10 years ago, This is your Future Self speaking. You are about 3 months away from making a very big decision. One that will significantly alter your life. How should I describe you? Baffled? Searching? Hopeful yet exasperated? Your children are 2 and 4
Read more →I’ve just got back from a fabulous time at the Quest Festival in Devon. I had the absolute pleasure of running 4 workshops on Happiness, The Artist’s Way and ‘Future Self Now‘. Everyone who came to my sessions was really up for all the games and exercises
Read more →Yes, I know, I know, dear hearts. I’ve been away for 3 months. I never forgot you. I never intended to be away for so long. But one thing I am absolutely certain about is that I must never do anything that doesn’t feel instinctively right. And for
Read more →Ahhhh – how wonderful to finally feel Spring in the air. It inspired a Haiku from me tonight: sitting here, windows wide open to the warm air, the birds excitedly ushering in nightfall… Night song on ink sky Celebrates joyous day Spring is here at last! (Don’t
Read more →Like everyone – Mr Benn in particular – I have a choice of many costumes I could wear at any one time. One of those costumes is a sauce-stained apron with copious pockets. Inside the pockets are a red pen, an eraser, a cheque book, a little
Read more →For many years now I’ve adopted the starfish as my personal emblem. My friends know this, and over the years Ive been gifted with some spectacular starfish things like this silver necklace from my great friend, Kelly in Canada: and recently Rachel, a very good friend and
Read more →It’s impossible to be grateful and upset at the same time. In the moment of appreciation – even if it is just a fleeting moment – we are free. When it comes to raising our energy, this is what makes gratitudes, in my opinion, even more powerful
Read more →So, it’s now Year Two of this Happiness blog and, as I mentioned in my last post, I’ve taken on the fresh challenge (hence my new tagline) of daring to be more conscious. This is why…. Reality – the ‘what’s-so’ of things has always appeared to me
Read more →We went to a tiny but wonderful festival of folk music over the weekend. Gossington Festival to be precise. Great bands, and so small we could chat to all the great artists and behave like groupies. The hit of the weekend for us though, despite all the
Read more →Well what a day. UK temperatures in the thirties? – Surreal. Driving to Heathrow? – Prosaic. Air-conditioning in my car barely able to keep up? – Prosaic. Standing in arrivals hall and suddenly confronted with the image of a beautiful lady dressed head to foot in orange-sherbet
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Look, can you see it? … a view from my bed! I can’t tell you happy this makes me. Our neighbour has just had an enormous pine tree chopped down and now I can sit in my bed and see a vast expanse of sky, fields (even
Read more →Of course the Universe always answers. The only impediment to us knowing this, is our listening (or lack of). There are days though when it feels like: “I ask and it is given”. Today for instance… This morning I was bemoaning the fact that there are no
Read more →Today I spent two wonderful hours doing homework for Julia’s class teacher. As the class are writing their autobiographies at the moment he wanted us to do a write-up of our children, complete with illustrations and anecdotes. Later he’s going to paste these mini-essays into the children’s
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