Selectively Juggling

What’s one small improvement you can make in your life? Sleep – get to bed earlier than I currently do, so I can easily awaken at 5am every morning, instead of 6am. Then, I can enjoy a quiet home before everyone awakens. I could meditate, quietly exercise and/or write, all before my family wakes and…

What does freedom mean to you? Freedom? Freedoms? Personal? Collective? Social? Political? – as you can see this is a highly nuanced topic, which in all honesty could take months to adequately address. Ok, so I’m not going to dedicate my next few months writing about freedom, and what it means to me. Why? because…

What is your career plan? Nah seriously, working in human, social, and health services can be a heady mix of challenge, personal extension, growth and potential compassion fatigue. Working as a professional to counsel individuals and families along their individual journeys is rewarding, can entail the use of my creativity, not just my emotional intelligence…

What was the last live performance you saw? On July 5th I will be a world away from where I’m sitting now. My family and I will be flying back to Europe, so we can spend some time with my Dutch in-laws. My eldest son and I will fly into Amsterdam 5 days after my…

What’s a job you would like to do for just one day? I’d like to be a policy writer, or Prime Minister, or even the Governor-General (GG) so I can exercise my right to pass bills through Royal Assent. I’d go for maximum impact, introduce bills which maximise and improve social , political, economical, cultural…

Do you vote in political elections? Yes, voting in Australia is mandatory, as it’s seen as an inherent component of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. I take my right to vote extremely serious, regardless whether it’s local council, state or federal elections. I can’t understand how someone can willingly choose not to vote. In…

What gives you direction in life? My internal compass helps keep me on a life trajectory encompassing compass(ion) , integrity, loyalty and honesty. That’s not to say I don’t occasionally wander off track (a little). My internal compass is basically an amass of finely surveyed life lessons, meanings and values, that allow me to navigate…

I feel most productive, no I am most productive when I have the time and space to hyperfocus. This generally entails having a pending timeline, or demands which need to be met. The combination of a looming deadline, appointment or date, with clearly defined time and space boundaries enables me to hyperfocus, and pretty much…

Describe something you learned in high school. Unfortunately we moved around whilst I was in my teens, and attended 4 different high schools. I started high school as a fresh-faced, quasi exuberant girl, with an insatiable appetite for learning 11year-old. So, as the very reserved, softly-spoken, fly-under-the-radar 8th child of 10 kids, my first day…

Who is the most confident person you know? Not me, that’s for sure. I need to take a dip in a deep bucket of confidence. No, not a dip but a long satiating lounge in deeply ‘fortifying’ waters. Perhaps then I would proactively and consciously move out of my own shadows.