"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be"

Abraham Lincoln

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it"

Dennis P. Kimbro

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We have just come back from a great few days on the West Coast of Scotland. One day it chucked it down - no surprise this summer! Anyway we decided rather than mope around to go to the Sea Life Centre just south of Oban. We had a great time. On return to Loch Melfort the skys cleared and we took the boat over to Jura and the bay with Barnhill Cottage where Orwell wrote 1984. From there we went up to Corryvreckan and played around for a while in the overfalls before returning for a bar meal in Craobh Haven - the end to what was a perfect day!

A day day that could so easily have been a literal washout!

The picture was taken next day and shows us, boat, Jura on left behind and Corryvreckan directly behind.

A Lesson From Homer - Stay Focused

Continuing the theme of development and focus, a friend of mine this week signposted me to the following link and Homer Simpson. Don't worry it's quite safe and entertaining. The point is how often in organisations and in our private life do we know it's going wrong but do it anyway!

Getting past this really requires us looking from the outside.

"Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think".

Ambrose Bierce

Timing Is Everything!

We had a major breakthrough this week when 'the wee man' mastered the potty (sorry if its too much detail). Try these things too soon and it they just don't seem to get it, leave it too late and it brings its own problems - social and otherwise I guess! There seems a time when its just the time!

The difference with this though and just 'missing the boat' is that although timing is critical, so is preparation and the careful watch for that opportunity. We were watching, preparing and hoping.

How many opportunities pass us by in our own development because we are just not looking for them.

Each week I go for the horoscope in the Sundays. Strange as I do really believe in them but in its own funny way it makes me look out for things that might just come my way if the time is right.