Posts by Paul
I love a good quote, so much so that I’ve got a section of them saved in a photo album on my phone. I forgot they were there until recently when I wanted to send one to a friend and couldn't find the words myself, so I searched my quote folder [...]
#filter #nofilter #allthefilters. Currently I’m loving a good filter – all the photos on my phone now seem to be layered in as many filters as I can manage without making landscape shots of the London suburbs look like it's the Bahamas. (It’s never that bright where I live). In fact, [...]
Hearing about the pressures of school life today makes me feel old. Really old. Apart from the exam stress and, “who will I hang out with today?” I don't really remember that much about my Skool Dayz. Except, perhaps, for the time that we locked the German teacher out of the classroom, [...]
Waiting in the queue to pick up my theatre ticket wasn’t as straightforward as I’d hoped. The box office computers were down and the box office staff were busily trying to get people’s tickets to them before the show started. Trying not to worry as the queues got longer, I was convinced I’d [...]
New year, new me and I’ve decided I’m going to get fit. I’ve bought a new gym top, charged my fitness watch and bought the essential fitness magazines. One magazine said that a “smartly constructed one-minute workout was found to be as effective as 45 minutes of moderate exercise’. Great I thought, I [...]
Fitting meditation into our lifestyles isn’t always easy, especially when there’s loads to do - and squeezing in a 10 minute time-out seems like an impossibility. So, in the run up to Christmas (there’s just over 4 weeks to go, don’t panic), I thought I’d add some meditative spice to my mindfulness [...]
This week was a week of firsts: I met a Dame – a proper one, with a badge and everything (I presume there was a badge somewhere, I didn’t actually get to see one). I saw a musical comedy about plotting pensioners, where the old women were played by old(ish) men; and [...]
Meditation – it’s the buzz word I’m trying to integrate into my life….”Cup of tea and a meditation?”…. “Game of Tennis then a post match meditate?” I’ve always had this desire to see myself as a really experienced meditator, so I can talk about the benefits, feel the benefits and then eventually meditate on [...]
I’ve never been overly good at critical reflection (without the stories, feelings and “he said/she said” going on in the background) but having to just stop and look back at the last three weeks has been harder than I thought. Hard because I had to make a choice on what I [...]
Phone sabbath. That's a lovely idea. I'm sure that would a great thing to do and scientifically proven to help me, thanks HH but I'm far too busy today. I'll do it later. That's how I started off, I knew best. A head full of things to do, problems to solve and not [...]
