Pleased to meet you.

Hi and welcome to my new blog.

I am glad you have joined me. I hope what I share with you will be as useful to you as it has been to me. I have had quite a number of 'light bulb' moments over the years. I was very fortunate to have been introduced to two mentors in particular in 1988 and to have read and listened to many more very wise teachers since.

From as far back as the teachings of the Buddha and beyond right up to the present day 'life style' gurus, the truth is the truth. There is nothing new. The way the message is presented may change and it just maybe that one way resonates with you more effectively than another.

I am fascinated with human nature. How complex life can be. Nothing is ever just black or white, or all right or all wrong.  We humans live contradictory lives.  Quite hypocritical; generous, charitable yet self serving and self destructive in so many ways too.

We listen yet we don't hear. We see but we do not learn. We live in a world of information overload. There is so much, we are unable to take it all in. We want to achieve so many 'projects'. We start much but finish very little, if anything.

Mental illness is on the rise. is there any wonder?

OK- So this sounds so depressing. Well it is, if we allow this fast changing technologically driven society to drag us along.

Society itself has subtly, since the last big war, given us a false sense of security on one hand but also managed to control the masses by fear and need, jealousy and greed.

One of my 'light bulb' moments was when I was listening to a set of cassette tapes called 'The Psychology Of Achievement' by Brian Tracey and he simply said " If it's to be - its up to me".

Contrary to what you might be thinking, this set of cassettes was not all about making money. Yes it was one of the subjects but it was far more fundamental, touching on Health, Happiness, Relationships, Self Belief, Conditioning etc.

Suffice to say that material turned my mindset 360 degrees from having a victim mentality to taking total responsibility for my actions. It was not the circumstances that were the problem it was how I dealt with them.

I think you get the picture.........