“The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.” - Deepak Chopra   I’m very proud to have been chosen by Feedspot as 44 in their 45 Best Trauma Blogs to follow in 2021. For a new blogger with no social media presence or previous blogging experience, I’m delighted. As Feedspot is a global business built around collating and ranking Blogs, this is an unexpected and most welcome win. The comment I received from Feedspot founder Anuj was “You have an impressive blog with high quality and useful content.” Schrodie went to his first meditation with me this week. It was good for us both. Everyone loved him and he liked them all, especially Honour and Lucky his new friends. They are beautiful Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Honour is a rescue dog, who has happily found a loving home after losing her mummy to illness. Schrodie talked to everyone, played, investigated the flick

    “Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.” – Colin Powell approximately 9 minutes reading time Another week has passed, so quickly. This has been a good week. I received a call from the nrma consultant who is looking after my claim, a lovely lady. My car went to the Smash Repairs where she has gone before and my beautiful, reliable, sexy girl will be in for repairs after the 16 th July, for about a week. Even though the accident was not my fault, I will have no access to a paid hire car which is disappointing. I will manage. The builders have completed my slab. I hope that they have fixed the fence as per my request as they caused the damage. I received a bill from them for $96,000.00, wow! This is a first for me. My Bankers are working with me to arrange the payment in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner. There are a few technical issues that we are working out for maximum benefit and long-term effect. My friend st

       “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” – H. G. Wells Approximately 8 minutes reading time This has been quite the week. My week started off great then disintegrated but has finished off being good overall. I’m still standing. My house is being built, finally. The slab has been poured. A few days ago, a man composed an impromptu song for me and about me and serenaded me in front of my guitar teacher. This was an unexpected joy and delight and completely wonderful. It made me smile. It made me laugh. I'm sure that it made me blush. This was not romantic but still a wonderful gesture. My guitar teacher asked him if he made it up or it was already a song. He made it up, for me. He walked up to us as we were talking and he’d finished his conversation and started singing to me. This was easily the highlight of my week. It has been a long time since a man has composed and sung a song for me, this is number five. I feel humbled. This was very sp