Last night while coming to the end of an excellent book I’m reading entitled “Piano Girl” (the story of one womens career as a professional cocktail-lounge pianist) she offered the following quote from a character called Mister Rogers: “The thing I remember best about successful people I’ve met all through the years is their obvious…

“There is no life, no life without its hunger” – You raise me up Aside: Thank you for taking the time to read this article (5/10 mins). Also remember this Thursday, Holy Thursday, 20th March is an opportunity for some deep inspirational and reflection with the Dare to Dream inspirational evening. Click here for details. Sometimes it’s preferable…

In November 2001 I sat in a small chapel in Assisi, on retreat with a good friend of mine James Twyman and others and listened to one of the most inspirational people I’ve ever heard. His name was Fr Maximilian Mizzi. As I listened to his gentle loving wisdom I knew I was in the presence of someone very…

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do. – Anonymous I remember in the early nineties delivering a course entitled “Advanced Unix Facilities”, even the title would make you go “ahhhhhhhhhh! No please anything but that!!!” Pretty much every second Monday morning…

There’s really no limit to how much love can grow and blossom in our lives. As Elizabeth Kubler Ross (1926-2004)  the world renowned author said – when we get to the end of our lives what  really counts is how much love we gave and how much we were open to receive (see Graceful Passages). Of course there’s also…

There once was a crow who found a beautiful piece of bread. He pecked away at it for a few moments but loads of other crows noticed what he had and wanted some. They started diving for him so he took the bread into his beak and started to fly away. All the other crows…