Inspiration

Inspiration for Living

True Inspiration from Sporting Ironmen

31 March 2012 Daily Life
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There’s no excuse. My cycling gear has been staring forlornly at me for weeks, and I’ve been pretending not to notice . . . or blaming my exercise (and blogging!) neglect on the rhino, since we’ve been so tied up filming for them. That’s not fair, though. It’s not as if they asked for it. [...]

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Blog Awards – Paying it Forward

13 January 2012 Blogging
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It’s time to spread the love around the blogosphere and celebrate 2012 with some online gratitude First and foremost, heart-felt thanks to Amy Nora Doyle at Souldipper (based in Canada) for her gift to me of the Liebster Award (meaning Favourite): This is passed on with a request to recognise the blogger who gave it [...]

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New Year Lanterns Lighting the Sky

1 January 2012 Bulletin Board
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! May your wishes find wings and your heart’s desires be fulfilled in 2012. Our dreams took flight last night, in the embrace of beautiful sky lanterns that breathed enchantment towards the stars. Mine couldn’t seem to wait to take off and floated first with a prayer for our beloved Jina, who disappeared [...]

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Steve Jobs – Living Tribute to a Phenomenal Man

6 October 2011 Bulletin Board

What a landmark day for the world – 5 October 2011 – seeing the passing of Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, aged 56. The profound impact of his phenomenal life reaches beyond borders and through psyches to touch so many of us in some way [...]

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Are You Thinking To Grow Rich?

3 September 2011 Blogging
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Our special friends over at Written by Sumer have started a great series of posts sharing entrepreneurship and business advice, which are contributed to by their readers, i.e. Business-Transforming Books: Best Business Success Books – Part I I’ve decided to post my response here too, because my #1 book is so worth sharing. I’ve known [...]

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Busyness

9 August 2011 Inspiration
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BUSYNESS Purpose has its place, especially when paired with awareness of the difference between business and busyness Achieving results in line with life’s purpose, is reward enough by itself Being busy on the other hand, empties hours of riches, and saps bodies of essential energy How do we determine the difference between the two? By [...]

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Greatness

1 August 2011 Inspiration
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His name was Mufasa, apparently meaning “King” in the Manazoto language…and what a king he was. He exuded greatness. This magnificent male lion lived at Schotia Safaris, an Eastern Cape game farm belonging to the Bean family, who have owned the original farm, Orlando, since the early 1800′s. It’s run by Peter, Dave’s friend from [...]

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Fun

23 July 2011 Inspiration
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FUN Some things in life should be compulsory, with fun being right at the top of the list No matter the age or stage we’re at, laughter is the tonic that tickles our souls To be spread around with gay abandon, like freeing a handful of helium balloons ©2011, NAOMI ESTMENT Inspiring Quotes: “If it’s [...]

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Custom

8 July 2011 Inspiration
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CUSTOM Who we are is interwoven with what we do and how we live The feelings conjured by inherited customs can range from comfort to claustrophobia Perfect neutrality is inhabited by love, where custom imparts wisdom from countless lives ©NAOMI ESTMENT Inspiring Quotes: “Custom is the great guide to human life” – David Hume “Customs [...]

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