Archive for 2018

Blind Spots

Peter April 24, 2018 Post Comment Uncategorised

Pheasant I was driving a road on Exmoor recently when a pheasant hove into view on the road in front of me. Now these rather scatty birds have a brain to weight ratio of at least 1:100, and they have no sense of the Highway ...

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Blackberries

Peter April 2, 2018 Post Comment Uncategorised

Have you ever been blackberrying? To be fair, most of us have at some stage in our lives. It’s one of those activities that starts out with smudged fingers, and the occasional collision with a thorn. And ends up in a delicious hot crumble back ...

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The Far Look

Peter March 20, 2018 Post Comment Uncategorised

“He has given himself up to an influence outside his everyday consciousness, which is none other than his own deeply buried unconscious, whose presence he was never hitherto aware of.” ~ Bruce Lee, The Tao of Jeet Kune Do   Focus your eyes at infinity ...

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Decision Making and Thought

Peter March 10, 2018 Post Comment Uncategorised

The Inside-Out dilemma One of the constant questions I hear raining down in a regular discussion group I am part of is this:- “Can we talk some more, and share some more, in the area of decision-making?” Now although I’ve written extensively on this subject, ...

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Minimize to Tray

Peter March 5, 2018 Post Comment Uncategorised

Booting-Up Every time I fire up my laptop it goes through a sequential series of actions, a boot-up routine. Eventually the operating system is invoked, the screen comes to life, and I get invited to put in my password. After that there comes the automatic ...

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Footwear and the Bridle Path

Peter March 5, 2018 Post Comment Uncategorised

Booting-Up I had two walks last Saturday: a ‘tough’ morning walk, along the South West Coast Path with some steep climbs on wet terrain – and a simpler, though longer, afternoon walk involving the beach at Woolacombe. The weather in the morning was misty with ...

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Balancing Our Lives

Peter February 27, 2018 Post Comment Uncategorised

Kuzushi Today began with watching a video from a good friend in which he talked about the principal of Kuzushi, or breaking balance, in martial arts. So, what is it, you may well ask? It is a Japanese term for unbalancing an opponent in martial ...

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Revision

Peter February 16, 2018 Post Comment Uncategorised

Today’s Topic Imagine that you are in the audience and I am giving a talk … and on the whiteboard or flip chart behind me you see the word “REVISION.” Probably, like me, you are immediately transported back to a pre-exam scenario. Mutually, our minds ...

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Yesterday

Peter February 15, 2018 Post Comment Uncategorised

My good friend Brian Groves published a short article entitled “Was yesterday really better than today?” And this got me thinking, and musing, and evaluating. I went searching for answers – and came up with the following:- Answers         There’s the outside stuff, ...

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Is it just another day?

Peter February 15, 2018 Post Comment Uncategorised

The Watershed Experience Earlier this year, 2017, my coach urged me to compile a “vision board” of all the things I would like to bring into my life – places, people, activities, experiences and so on. I have it in my little office at home ...

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