Positive Attitude.Me

HI folks 2012 has started just as 2011 did, family circumstances still being stretched, due to mum still being in hospital. Have managed to keep very positive though and encouraged mum to keep saying ‘thank you’ rather than call out for help, so that when the staff ask her why she keeps saying ‘thank you’ [...]

It’s winter time, actually ‘Boxing Day’ 26th December 2009 and you may think that I have lost it when you read the following – but in a strange kind of way I thought it was inspirational – even if it was a ‘kiddies’ christmas holiday movie. I thought, what a great way to end one [...]

Well, wonderful welcome was the first thought that came into my head when I was looking at a headline for the double ‘ww’ title. I could just as easily have been wonderful week. We have been hosting the GSE Team (Rotary – Group Study Exchange) from New Zealand during the month of September, they have [...]

The power and passion of other humans can never be measured, charitable works can be seen in a multitude of guises and I will share some of these with you at this time. I was fortunate to be selected by my District in Rotary to lead a team of young professionals on a ‘Group Study [...]

This is my first blog since returning from my Rotary visit to Canada – there are masses of great news and motivational posts to come from that visit – it was absolutely brilliant, the Canadians opened their doors and their hearts to the GSE team and made us feel part of the Rotary global family. Since [...]

Rotary ‘rules – ok’. We had a great fundraising event last night in aid of the local cardiac rehabilitation unit – nearly 80 rotarians, friends and family managed to raise in excess of £2,500 I am aware of so many other fundraising events going on at the same time, I had been invited to 2 [...]

What a brilliant way to show others that they are special, Rotary have a Motto – ‘Service Above Self’; also in the Bible, Jesus told us to ‘shower our enemies with love’, after the Omagh bombing the father of one of the young ladies who died was broadcast around the world almost immediately after his [...]

It was 20 years ago, I realised that I would soon be declared surplus as a result of rationalisation of resources. I was also approaching my 40th birthday within the next 18 months – you would have thought that perhaps my world would start to fall apart all around me – but the opposite happened. [...]