Originally posted on Blogger 24 August 2011.   Escape velocity is when you’re going to leave them and they know. For example, you’re set to marry the nice guy and Mr Poison gets wind of it and phones up; about to go on an important business trip and your husband suddenly needs you for no real reason; about to leave a bad job and you get a raise. The whole trick is to evade the test. We all draw to us the one test that’s our total nemesis. In order to achieve escape velocity, we must learn to keep our own counsel, to move silently among doubters, to voice our plans…

Originally posted on Blogger 23 August 2011.   I have a wonderful friend. She is the type of friend that when you tell her something, she’s there cheering you on. I’ve seen what happens sometimes when she says something that most people consider to be outlandish and they say so: ‘Oh, is that wise?’ Maybe this is why when I said to her that I’d found something I wanted to study but the teacher was in the US so I’d have to go there to study, she didn’t ask if I had the money or did the teacher have the qualifications or was I being realistic. No. She said, ‘Fantastic!’…

Originally posted on Blogger 15 August 2011   It was about 11 years ago that I sat down and started my first real goal setting exercise. I had done some sort of goal setting before, but this was the first of the genuine heart and soul into it kind of goal setting. 4 years on and quite a number of the things on that list had happened, even some of the big items. It would be another year before I would redo the exercise, this time my goals seemed to be so far out of my world that if I was doing the exercise in a class, the instructor would…