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My Brother Shane just wrote a blog on the spirituality of surfing. It is definitely worth a read...

and here's why...

People who know me know I enjoy my running.  Long distance running at that.  10km runs are like a casual stroll, and half marathons are when it starts to get serious.  

City 2 Surf is a nice 14km hit out.  And I've just started my program to tackle Canberra Marathon (again) in early April 2012.

I recently read someone talking about failure being the secret to success. This interested me and as I thought about it more I was both challenged and encouraged.

Only by trial and error do we push the boundaries and achieve great things in life, and therefore become successful people.

Technology, whether you like it or not, infiltrates and impacts every aspect of our lives.

Smartphones allow us to have the world at our fingertips and to be accessible wherever we are, even at the most inappropriate and inconvenient times.  But that doesn't make it a bad thing?

I don' think Im the only one who as a kid thought it would be great to earn a million dollars a year, to be a millionaire, and dreamed of what Id do with it.

Looking back now though the problem was that every dream was self-centered and me focused.  Cars, big boys toys, house, holidays and the like.  I never really gave any thought to what impact I could have on the lives of others.

The mind is a powerful thing!  It has been said that "whether you think you can or you think you cannot you'll be right!"

I cannot control the weather.  As much as I try, I have absolutely no control over whether or not it will rain.  I cannot control my football team.  If i could affect the performances, the Dragons would be playing the Grand Final this weekend. I cannot even control my children.

A few years ago now a rather astute client told me about his business being a bus.  I looked at him with a quizzical expression, so he elaborated. 

What did he mean?  Well, let me tell you.

For the last few months my brother Troy and I have been planning a dive trip to QLD. We kept ourselves flexible as to what weekend we would go, in order to get the best weather conditions. Our plan was a fairly simple one.

Drive north, find warm water, spear tasty fish, and have life experiences to remember.

Well spring has sprung here on the South Coast of NSW.  The days are beautiful and warm, weekends are great for swimming and relaxing outside, and all the lawns and flowers are perking up.

I have recently been talking to retail clients about how hard they are finding business over the last year or 2 and especially over the last few months. The most obvious cause of this is the uncertainty in global economies and lack of consumer confidence.

We also have the cloud of the new carbon tax with no one really certain how this will affect our costs of living.