Child Of Our Time Child Of Our Time and TV programs like it will often show us interesting ways to analyse our psyche. Coming up with tests and questionnaires which will then show us that we are ‘Extravert’ or ‘Agreeable’ or that women get more stressed than men or some other categorisation of our personality. [...]
Nick Vujicic Nick is a young man born without arms or legs and yet his story shows how even with this disability you can have a positive outlook in life, you can ‘future think’ by considering others, by, and I quote: ’not comparing suffering’, unquote. In previous short articles, I’ve discussed the need to release [...]
I’ll start this short article by quoting someone far more knowledgeable than I. I’m reading a book by Susan Jeffers called Embracing Uncertainty (link). “You’ve entered the cinema and are very excited about seeing this great movie that has been touted by the media for months and months. You are happy that none of your friends [...]
I’m one of those people who ‘knows’ that I should listen to the ‘inner voice’ or as we often call it, our intuition. But (you knew there was a ‘but’ didn’t you?), my thoughts and the decisions I make are often clouded by the emotional side of me. I recently had a fabulous instance of [...]
A brief meaning of ‘Future Thinking’ Future thinking is about thinking outside of our ‘box’. It’s about thinking wider than we currently are, of taking off the blinkers and looking at other options. Future thinking asks open questions like ‘what if..’ as opposed to ‘I can’t…’ Future thinking is about the near future (changing present [...]