How much do you value your personal space? Do you have people who invade it? When I was a teenager we had a family friend who used to stand just a bit too close to me.
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Taking people as they are
Do you spend time with people who annoy you? Do you let it show? When our children were tiny, it
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Sorry seems to be the hardest word
It seems to me that there are two categories of people: those who say sorry, and those who don’t. Maybe
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Is attitude a self-fulfilling prophecy?
What is your attitude today? Have you got something difficult coming up, or is life a bed of roses? I
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What has blocked your way?
Have you ever found your way totally blocked? Does it ever feel like you are banging your head on a
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What haven’t you seen?
I think I have been living with my eyes closed for the past 42 years. I’m starting to realise there
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Shifting the goal posts
I’m all for change. But I hate it when I think something is decided, then someone shifts the goal posts…
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Don’t let the squirrels get you down
Did you do the RSPB Birdwatch this year? We did, and have been trying to attract more birds to our
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Groups: are you in or are you out?
Do you feel you belong to a particular group? What do you have in common with the others in your
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Collaboration: that’s the name of the game
As a family, we love board games. My husband and I cherish evenings when the children have gone to bed,
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