by Trish Springsteen | Jan 10, 2010 | Personal Development
There is nothing more pathetic than the sight of me wandering around my bookshelves muttering “I have nothing to read!” There are about three thousand books jammed in the shelves, piled on the floor, spilling over coffee tables and getting under foot!What I mean of...
by Trish Springsteen | Jan 7, 2010 | Business, Personal Development
Have you met your ‘Lugubrious Lucy’ yet? You know; the one that is sure it is never going to work? Well you will!!I bumped into my ‘Lugubrious Lucy’ in the shopping centre just the other day. I hadn’t seen her for months and of course we had to stop for coffee and...
by Trish Springsteen | Jan 1, 2010 | Business, Personal Development
My grandmother used to be quite passionate about New Year’s Day – it was, she told me, a crossroad. Here we could pause a little in our life and make some decisions about the year ahead.“What you do on New Year’s Day” she said “was an indication of how you would spend...
by Trish Springsteen | Dec 30, 2009 | Business, Leadership, Personal Development
The end of 2009 is close and it is that time where we look at our goals and aims for the New Year 2010.Before doing so, we should take time to reflect on the past year. How can you possibly set goals for the New Year if you have not looked at what you achieved in the...
by Trish Springsteen | Dec 24, 2009 | Communication, Personal Development
Charles Dickens – what were you thinking …. Because of you, it is Christmas Day in the Southern Hemisphere, it’s seven o’clock in the morning and my ham is already in the oven, basted and ready to go. The temperature is appalling!!What is it about...
by Trish Springsteen | Dec 18, 2009 | Communication, Personal Development
Inspiration, the Oxford English Dictionary tells us, is that divine influence which is thought to visit poets.Inspiration, as I have found, visits us in the middle of the night and disappears by morning.This has been my experience. Last night I had a wakeful period...
