There is an ancient Chinese saying "In times of crisis, great leaders will emerge."

The evidence of recent years indicates that there is no crisis in Australia, so that's good news.

Things have been getting better for a long time now. I'm ready to say that I have a good life. I don't want to go into detail, because keeping a thought secret makes it more powerful, and I want these thoughts to have all the power they can get. But things are good for me, and I'm looking forward to being ready to share more about that.

Moving house this weekend, to move in with Kim. I don't want to talk too much about how awesome that is, because some feelings are worth holding on to, instead of releasing them to the world. She's the one that needs to know these things, the rest of you can just look on in awe, rather than reading massive explanations ( Read more... )

It is so definitely 'posting frenzy' time. I'm decompressing after working way too hard for way too long, and I've finally got some quality time with me, myself, and I. As is my wont, I have spent much of the weekend so far in ritualistic self-abuse, specifically, staying up way too late and watching tv (seriously, until 4:30am? The Wire is good ( Read more... )

So, on Thursday, I found myself pondering that memetic question "What would you say to yourself, if you could send a message to the person you were 10 years ago?"

I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that the answer was "I have most of the things you want. Thank you."

I'd love to tell you about my work, but there's a limit to my ability to talk about that in a public place (and a friends-locked post only affords so much protection). When I quit the Chinese Medicine course, it was because (among many other reasons) I realised that there are very few people in the world who can teach me more about healing minds ( Read more... )

Also, Thursday night was awesome. I met a brilliantly intelligent consultant who wants to talk to me and steal my ideas. In return, he's going to explain some of his ideas to me. I sent him a LinkedIn invite, and he responded with "I'm avoiding LinkedIn, there's too many people who want to talk to me ( Read more... )

There are two things that I didn't realise about being in middle management, the fear and the isolation ( Read more... )

Those of you who know me, online or offline, are probably aware that if I say "I've had a troubled relationship with my father," it's usually because I'm being polite. That talking to him on the phone has caused me such distress that I could be disabled by it for days afterwards (and beforehand, too, if I knew it was coming up ( Read more... )

I've spent a lot of the last year being patient. Interestingly enough, the better I get at being patient, the less need I seem to have for patience. When I'm frustrated, I tend to lose sight of the progress I've made (or am making), which leads to frustration.... Nice to be in the opposite cycle :D