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How well will you cope with a near-death experience?

Tuesday, 07 February 2012 07:37 |

Written by Peter Nicholls |

I got this message last week from a subscriber who is a very experienced businessman:

“Peter, I have been receiving your messages for a long time now. Recently I had a near-death experience, an operation that went wrong, no one to blame just the way things happen; I am glad I had a very good medical team! ·But the point of this note ·is the incident has been an eye opener for me ; the importance of living every day to the full and expending one’s time on the things that really matter have certainly been reinforced . I have remarked more than once in recent weeks to business colleagues that we all tend to take work a little too seriously!· Peter, your message is a strong one!"

How ready are you to cope with a life-threatening experience so strong that it shakes your very being to the core – emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually? It can happen at any time and usually without warning. I too sometimes wonder how I will respond.

Like anything else in life, the more prepared you are when the going gets tough, the better you will deal with it. Basically I believe that the more often we emphasize the positives in life, the better we cope with the negatives. Perhaps at times I get carried away by my zeal to send out these messages, but the above re-affirmed my belief that I am in my right place doing my right thing.

Take my subscriber’s tip. Get out there and enjoy the good things in life more often than your busy time schedule will allow.

Last Updated (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 07:43)

People want to think and act positively

Saturday, 21 January 2012 20:48 |

Written by Peter Nicholls |

My latest article "Promoting Positive Human Behaviour" has attracted more than just wide interest. My statistics indicate that not only the numbers are high but also there has been a very strong response from people who don't usually read my weekly messages.

I'm reading it that people are struggling against the barrage of negative information by which they are constantly battered in today's media. They want to know how to generate their own personal "positive thinking" program to counter this negativity. My article gives them some great clues that people can apply naturally and enjoyably to their own lifestyle - at work, at home and especially at play.

Click here to read the article for yourself. As ever, I welcome your comments below.

Create Your 2012 Sculpture

Friday, 13 January 2012 11:25 |

Written by Peter Nicholls |

A short simple message to kick off 2012.

Think of 2012 like a piece of unhewn timber waiting to be sculpted by your creative talents. If you simply chip away with no shape in mind, you will finish up with nothing more to show for your efforts than a pile of woodchips. Look to your life's experiences, passions, talents and enjoyments to formulate, sculpt and create your unique masterpiece for the year.

Whatever you create, others will envy the fact that you are living to a plan.

Go to it. I would love your comments here on the sort of "sculpture" you have in mind. And if I can help you plan and shape your sculpture, contact me.

I'm not strange after all...whew

Tuesday, 17 January 2012 06:16 |

Written by Peter Nicholls |

I was delighted to read in the Weekend Australian Jan 14/15 Professional Section that a global survey of working people found 55 per cent of Australians prefer to work in informal spaces such as coffee shops and libraries. The article discusses the belief that people tend to work more productively in what they call "third place " offices and usually near home.

Where necessary, these people still have ready access to their normal office through the many IT options now available.

Working for myself, my home is my workbase. That's fine for all my administrative and run-of-the-mill tasks but when I want to think creatively, my thinking really sparkles when off I go to one of a few favourite coffee shops or to my local public library. The coffee shop is my preference to work with pen and pad to get the rought thoughts together and then off to the library where I can use their computers.

It was rather nice to read I'm not strange and that I am actually part of a world wide trend.

What is "Leisure/Recreation"?

Thursday, 15 December 2011 07:05 |

Written by Peter Nicholls |

As the lines between work and everything else in life is now greatly blurred, I find myself increasingly having to put forward the definition of leisure that I have evolved over my 40 plus years of working professionally in the area of leisure and recreation planning and development.

Leisure is anything you freely choose to do purely for the intrinsic enjoyment it gives you personally. No two persons choices will be exactly the same. It's not the activity, but rather the good feeling it gives you. If you like the word 'recreation', drop the first 're' and the word becomes creation - how you creatively express your natural self, your natural-born talents and your passionate interests, in your own way. It's nature's way of managing your stress levels, sustain your resilience and raise your self esteem (which ripples through to everything else you do).

I enjoy my work greatly and understand fully why some people say their work is their leisure. But it doesn't meet the above definition of leisure/recreation because you work for economic reasons. The fact that others have to benefit from it to make it viable adds pressures and stresses that don't exist in a leisure/recreation interest.

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