Places I've visited (mainly playing basketball!)

I thought I would join with the craze.

I am amazed how many places I have been to.



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My biggest problem is...

Keeping the momentum going, you know the sort of thing, go to the gym, eat healthy, keep up to date with the bills and other household chores as well as doing your best to assist your partner and help her to free up their time.

I ask myself the same thing on a daily basis, I also feel guilty on a daily basis that I haven't done these things. So what do you do to change it? You read all the self help, personal development books you can get your hands on and then one day you come across THE book. The one that has that simple sentence that changes the way you think, the way you look at things and how you approach all you different tasks that you want to achieve. Ans what is that book called? "How To Change Your Life In 7 Steps" by John Bird ( the founder of the Big Issue).

And what was that sentence "Remember, you only have to start with 3%." He goes on to say that "It doesn't matter if you move slowly. As long as you are not standing completely still". These simple words have given me the impotus to make those small scary steps to be get to where I want to be. Let's see where I end up!

Where can we get our news from, if we don't want to get a bias slant on it?

It used to be that the BBC could be relied upon to provide accurate, reasonable honest unopinionated information. Sadly this is no longer true, they seem to have decided to take the dumbed down "shock jock" route of commercial media stations. It's no wonder that joe public has such strong opinions if all they are fed is one sided information full of emotional adjectives.

The state of reporting is such that I am now looking elsewhere to get my current affairs information and will take with a pinch of salt any reports that I choose to listen to. I would hazard a guess that as our Government has taken us to a state of war that the only that will be broadcast will be propoganda!

Has anyone got any suggestions where I could go for evenly balanced current affairs?

Terrorist attack or spin away from Israel/Lebannon

No surprise that they have released a major terror scare story for the world's popular media and shock jocks to wring their hands over. Any self respecting fairly intelligent person would ask why did "terrorists" want to do this at this time? But it's a great story to take away the fuel from the fire over the Israel/Lebannon crisis that Blair is once again yapping around Bush's ankles over. Meanwhile he is dragging this country further into turmoil and possibly heightening the public's interest in the views of Far Right parties. Or is this what he wants as he hasn't got the bottle to make the decisions that he needs to in order to gain back control of immigration and to stop further the madness's of political correctness.

Any one who lives in a multi cultural society or in a multi cultural relationship knows that to live with people from differing cultures takes more than changing the lyrics of nursery rhymes, it takes talking and laughing with each other, sharing life's experiences, understanding and respecting each other's cultural and religous beliefs. Above all else, respecting that we may all be different skin colours, abilities and sexes but we have the same needs and aspirations as each other and that we ALL need to have an equal chance to succeed in whatever we do.

Just one last point, we shouldn't poke fun at any religion and we shouldn't hate Muslims for the passion that they show for their religion, instead why don't we become as proud of our religions as they are. Then we can push for respect to be shown to all religions in this land. Or is that Utopia?

Motivation

This week's been a revolution for me, I have spent the week, teaching wheelchair skills to young disabled children, the youngest being 2 and half years old. This was no ordinary boring teaching course, it was teaching children through play and games. Not wanting to sound condescending or patronising but it was really motivating to see these children gain in confidence and skills.

The course was organised and run by a charity called Whizz-Kidz, a national charity that raises funds for mobility equipment for disabled children. See my links for more information.