This morning I was thinking about the urge to “catch up” and what I am "behind with", now that I’ve recovered from the extraction of my deeply infected back molar tooth and chronic septicaemia from the poison that it had been pumping into my body.

Today I woke in pain. Nothing like the mornings after each of my knee replacements, nor the morning after my tonsils were removed, nor the morning after my appendix was taken out, nor the morning after my baby-making organs were surgically removed. But, where there was a little pain yesterday morning, after the complex tooth removal yesterday, this morning it was definitely sore!

This is an amazingly positive message from a young woman who died at the age of 36 from cancer. Her burning desire to make a positive difference was achieved with profound success by the example of her life and her passionate final message.

I love watching the full moon rise. When I let myself be still with this scene, there is a sense of my full potential emerging in the energy of this emerging orb.

When I was 16 years old, my first goal to change the world for the better wrote itself into my brain – to help open and respectful conversations about different belief systems. At that time our new school headmistress was leading us to have these conversations weekly. I enjoyed them and wanted to make them happen much more often. I thought that all I had to do to make our world kinder and fairer, especially about beliefs, was to change the way that others talked about it…

A reflection on the still-relevant message from Charles Dickens’ book “A Christmas Carol” written in 1843, from an article by Stephen MacKenzie in the Christmas 2015 edition of The Big Issue in Britain.

Watching this video - "When I Die : Lessons from the Death Zone" - transported me back to my own experiences with death of my loved ones.

I’ve been reflecting on the story of Easter today. About what makes some people so willing to give of themselves for the good of any other living beings, human and otherwise.

The basis on which all a leader’s resilience rests is self-esteem!

Imagine 2,000 people around the world singing the same song at the same time.

There is a real organisation, a global organisation, let’s call it SR, which operates entirely outside the “normal” monetary world.

During a speech from Jillian Broadbent, then-director of BT Australia, she outlined her inspiring approach to life and work.

Last Friday I delivered the last of three sessions for this course at the University of Western Australia Extension.

One of the biggest projects run by my Perth Rotary Club is Passages, a resource centre for homeless young people.