My oldest memory of a significant shark encounter was at the Bay of Islands 60 odd years ago. My mum and I were swimming 50 metres off the beach. I was getting cold so I went in. Suddenly I saw a large fin and tail tip skimming the surface 20 metres from me and between my mum and the beach. As calmly as I could I called out, “Mum, you had better come in. There’s a shark
Celebrating success can be a challenge, especially when there’s still a lot to do, or when things overall just don’t seem like they’re going your way. But celebrating even small successes is important; it will make a difference to how you feel, and quite possibly how others around you feel.
So, how do you celebrate success? With a coffee, an award, a BBQ? All good ideas, and here’s another technique that can have a longer lasting effect.
I dropped out of university after six weeks and I don’t regret it. That choice I made caused me to lose my scholarship and my first-year fees free status.
During my last two years of school, nothing filled me with more dread than what I was going to do after I finished. For as long as I can remember,
If you’ve managed to make it to this paragraph, we should move on with my non-scientific observations about the world and its current state of sheer monotony. The instant access to information has turned us into constant stimulus-seeking creatures.
There was a wonderful event at the start of June on Wharekaho Beach. The community turned out in good numbers to help replant the dune after the devastation caused by cyclone Gabrielle. Happy, cheerful people, not complaining about the damage, or the fact that we may lose some of the plants we were planting to the next storm, just good people keen to join together to do their bit to help protect our beach.
My oldest memory of a significant shark encounter was at the Bay of Islands 60 odd years ago. My mum and I were swimming 50 metres off the beach. I was getting cold so I went in. Suddenly I saw a large fin and tail tip skimming the surface 20 metres from me and between my mum and the beach. As calmly as I could I called out, “Mum, you had better come in. There’s a shark
Celebrating success can be a challenge, especially when there’s still a lot to do, or when things overall just don’t seem like they’re going your way. But celebrating even small successes is important; it will make a difference to how you feel, and quite possibly how others around you feel.
So, how do you celebrate success? With a coffee, an award, a BBQ? All good ideas, and here’s another technique that can have a longer lasting effect.
I dropped out of university after six weeks and I don’t regret it. That choice I made caused me to lose my scholarship and my first-year fees free status.
During my last two years of school, nothing filled me with more dread than what I was going to do after I finished. For as long as I can remember,
If you’ve managed to make it to this paragraph, we should move on with my non-scientific observations about the world and its current state of sheer monotony. The instant access to information has turned us into constant stimulus-seeking creatures.
There was a wonderful event at the start of June on Wharekaho Beach. The community turned out in good numbers to help replant the dune after the devastation caused by cyclone Gabrielle. Happy, cheerful people, not complaining about the damage, or the fact that we may lose some of the plants we were planting to the next storm, just good people keen to join together to do their bit to help protect our beach.
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