Health and Well-being
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Finding Your Mojo: The Key to a Fulfilling Life
If there’s one thing a person could do – should do – for themselves, the one thing that would improve their lives tremendously it is to find their mojo – the something that makes life fun and enjoyable, the something that gives them an energy and an enthusiasm for life. That mojo can come from…
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Navigating Sports and Aging: Knowing When to Quit
I enjoy my sport. It’s an important part of my life. I play every week – up to three times a week. It’s physical, it’s competitive, it’s social, it’s fun, it keeps me active and it keeps me fit. But I’m now getting on a bit in age and I’ve been playing for a long…
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Three Hopes: Three Chances
I may not have a magic lamp but I do have my own genie – of sorts. It’s my way of making good things happen. Unfortunately, my genie does not grant me wishes. Our relationship isn’t quite as simple, as direct or as fulfilling as that. Rather than wishes, my genie operates on the basis…
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Being Me – How Individual am I?
I take pride in my individuality. It’s what makes me different. It’s what makes me special. I will have my own ideas; I will do my own thing. Those thoughts and behaviours are unique to me. They’re what make me who I am. Nobody else is me. I’m one of a kind. Or, at least,…
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Heart Ablation Opens the Mind
I have just had an unexpected but incredible insight into the alternate possibilities that my brain might be capable of or that others might naturally possess. I recently had to have a heart ablation. This procedure is undertaken in order to correct an irregular heartbeat. It involves the burning or freezing of some of the…
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Healthy Eating – How do you Measure the Goodness?
We may well be familiar with the expression that you can’t compare apples with oranges, but can you compare bananas with bananas? Certainly apples are very different from oranges, making any comparison difficult. But bananas are – seemingly – very similar to one another, so can you compare them in terms of their health benefits,…
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Stress – It’s Our Greatest Danger
Until very recently it was thought that smoking, alcohol, obesity and poor lifestyle were the main causes for people to develop a heart condition. It turns out that they are merely contributory factors. The main trigger for heart attacks, strokes and death it seems is stress. In the last few years it has been shown…
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Death – It’s a Matter of Timing
There’s a natural order to life, rules which we expect to follow, principles which are generally accepted: Older people should die before younger ones. Healthy people should live longer than those who have lived an unhealthy life. Children should not die before their parents. Unfortunately, these rules do not always apply. There are no guarantees…
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Defining an Exploitative Relationship
If I have something and you need that something then is it wrong for me to take advantage of that situation by seeking to achieve personal gain? If that something is a rare commodity and I am one of the few people in possession of that something, is it wrong for me to take even…
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Old and Left Behind
Over the last few weeks I have spent some time with my elderly parents and one of the most noticeable aspects of their lives that became apparent to me is how distant and estranged they are from modern life. They just don’t understand it. Now I accept that every generation will, at times, incomprehensively shake…
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How to Run/Walk Faster – Mechanically
A common complaint that regular runners or walkers make is that they don’t seem to get any quicker. Quite often, the reason for this is that they have acquired a tempo that they have become too used to. And just as with our other ways and routines, our exercise can also become habitual and unchanging.…
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Family Well-Being – An Employer’s Responsibility
How long will it be before employers become liable for the stress and depression caused, not to their employees, but to members of their employee’s family? When will employers be sued for causing the divorce or relationship breakdown of their employees? Legally, an employer has a duty of care to their employees. That means they…
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