I have been working away like a little beaver on my clients’ projects and I hardly ever lift my head except to smile that I am in my own home doing what I want to do. I do still walk every day though – down to the beach and I often rattle on around the rocks to the next bay and… Read More
Freelancing tips from Penelope Trunk
Freedom from the Tyranny of Office Life I thought it was time for an update on my new life of freedom from the tyranny of office life. I can still tell you this is heaven compared to my past life. I am working hard on various projects for clients and trying to fit in my own work for my food… Read More
Your thoughts when you are in the shower
Where is that place where your thoughts wander into painful territory? For me, it’s in the shower. The shower is a place of routine – the same actions, in the same order every day. So the mind is not required to engage. The water running, the warmth – it’s soothing and all those worries of the to-do list dissolve along… Read More
Busyness – worn as a badge of honour
Recently I read a blog post by Hands Free Mama called Vow to Breathe. It is a lovely story of the realization of what she was doing to herself and her children with all her busyness. For some years, I have been guilty of the whole “I am so busy” comment and yet felt decidedly uneasy about uttering it. When… Read More
Discard painful objects; Have new, long thoughts
This week past I would have been back at work. But I’m not. That’s monumental, guys! Just thinking about it raises my levels of elation into the stratosphere. Anyway, now I am truly jobless, I thought I would share some revelations I have had this week. It’s amazing what having a little brain space does for one. Discard Painful Objects… Read More
Update on my bid for freedom
This would have been the last day of my holiday. Tomorrow I would have been going back to work. You can’t imagine the mixture of fear and elation that flows through me at the realization. Elation that now my time starts seriously. Fear? That’s a strange one because it isn’t fear for what lies ahead. Not at all. In fact,… Read More