Yep, you read it right. I know most of you think I meant a solution for every problem, however I actually meant what I wrote.

Positive Selfishness Part 2 

Credit card and EFTPOS facilities are now available for payments in the clinic.

The Perfection of Excellence.

In the late 90’s I was asked by a family to see their son who had made an attempt to take his own life. What makes a 20 year old man decide that this was the best option left to him?

He came from a family who were in business for themselves and his Dad took great pride in the fact that he was a perfectionist and as we are all wont to do, he endeavoured to pass this trait along to his children. All their life they were told it’s only good enough if it is perfect.

As a deadline approaches for a column I am responsible for,  I often sit and wonder where the words or inspiration are going to come from. You probably know what it’s like – ideas and thoughts just desert you and “blank mind” takes over.

I am currently sitting in an airline lounge waiting for a regional flight with this predicament very firmly gripping me. What to do. Do I describe the antics of people around me, do I consider what my day hold in store, or, maybe I should reflect on how I came to be here.

A few years ago I was talking to a bloke who introduced me to the “Feather and Brick” theory.

He said life will keep hitting you with a feather to tell you there is an area of your life you need to look at or an attitude you need to change. If you don’t take notice of it, it will throw a brick at you.

I have since come to understand that the people we meet are put into our life, by life, for specific reasons. As life would have it I met a chinese medicine man and told him about how life had made me miserable.

One of the topics that has constantly arisen during the last 15 years of my clinic work has been people talking about the difficulty they have when faced with making a decision. Now decisions come in all shapes and sizes and what to have for dinner pales into insignificance when compared with doubling the size of a mortgage, so decisions need to be kept in perspective when we decide we are going to wring our hands relentlessly over an issue that has recently confronted us.

The formula I have for decision making is quite simple.

Dealing with the pressures of life.

“Stress is the condition created when the mind overrides the bodies desire to choke the life out of an individual that we feel desperately deserves it”

Here's an interesting story a mate sent to me recently that I thought was worth sharing.

In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about your friend?"

"Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test.
It's called the Triple Filter Test."

"Triple filter?"