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Coaching #2 - What Do You Want?

This ‘simple’ question is one of the most difficult we face as human beings.   To help with this article take a moment to write down what you want now in your life.   Think about it and answer it in any way that is meaningful for you.   What do you want?   I am now the supervisor in the examination hall telling you not to turn the page until you are happy with your answer or you want to give up trying. There are several types of outcome when we are faced with the question ‘what do you want?’.   Take what you have written and see if it fits with any one or a combination of these outcomes. 1.      You want to win the lottery, obtain a surprise inheritance, not to have the illness you have or some other very low chance possible event to occur. 2.      You don’t want your current life but you know there is nothing you can do to change it for all the reasons you can state. 3.      You find it much easier to say what you don’t want than to state clearly what

Photography #2 - Death of the Wilderness

Human beings are story tellers.   We tell ourselves a story each day about who we are.   We take what we had yesterday, seek confirmation that it is still true and add to it with the experiences we have in each moment.   We also have stories about where we came from.   Some of these are evident in our consciousness while others are hidden deep.   The hidden ones have a big impact on us affecting our mood and emotions.   Landscape photography triggers hidden stories about our past, what we want and what we fear losing. It is no surprise to you that we have not yet fully evolved to have breakfast, lunch and supper at set times and to work in offices from 9-5.   The design we still live with is to hunt, gather, reproduce, and nurture.   The latter will involve fighting as a necessary process to protect our own.   Our job is to protect our gene pool.   Nothing more nothing less.   Over the coming millions of years as we morph to post human mixtures of silicon and geneti