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1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know where my watch is pal, where the heck is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?
2 People who are willing to get off their butt to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
3 When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too!" Hello! What good is cake if you can't eat it? Who doesn't want to have their cake and eat it? What else am I going to do with my cake?
4 When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who are they? Where are they? And Why??
5 When people say while watching a film "Did you see that??" No, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the floor. Then I miss the next scene for answering the doofus' question!
6 People who ask "Can I ask you a question?".... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya?
7. When something is 'New and Improved!' Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, so it couldn't be new.
8 When people say "Life is short". What?? Life is the longest thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?
9 When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?" If the bus came would I be standing here? Yeah the bus came but I decided to wait for you!
1. Women were often the original rulers:
Most of the earth was ruled by women for the first 200 000 years of human existence. Men have only begun ruling in the last 7000 years, and in western society this only became absolute after the European Inquisition (‘witch hunts’) which ended only 300 years ago.
2. Women’s biology is well suited to leadership:
Firstly, from our earliest conception in the womb, the human embryo leans intrinsically towards being female. Males, if they are to not only turn into male human beings but also survive as pure males, need to fight for their very survival at every turn. Secondly, females have more of the hormone oestrogen. The more research that has been done into hormones, the more oestrogen has come out as a winner in the new leadership styles. If what we are looking for now in our decision makers leans more towards emotional intelligence, communication and inverted hierarchies, women again, come out on top. Anthropologist Helen Fisher, wrote in her book The First Sex (Helen Fisher, Random House, 1999), “that women’s taste for egalitarian harmonious connections is associated with the female hormone oestrogen” (pg 29)
Fisher also believes that as oestrogen increases flow of information among neurons, it may well be the cause of the female skills in verbal memory and articulation. Oestrogen makes women talented in the linguistic department – and being able to speak well augurs well for leadership (and as Fisher states, being articulate is equated often - rightly or wrongly - with intelligence).
Women are also more sensitive than men in reading people’s emotions and how they are feeling, and according to Fisher this helps in the care of children, but also in negotiations and dealing with people from other cultures where language cannot be used as an indicator. “ …the ability to recognise emotions in the face is also linked to the female hormone oestrogen”. Thirdly, as there are slightly more women in the world than men currently, the majority should rule!
3. Women have the perfect brain for management:
Women tend to use both hemispheres of the brain at the same time whereas men tend to use intensely one side or the other. These modes have been named the global brain and the split brain respectively. Women tend to find a middle ground with ready access to both sides of the brain while men will tend to be extremely in side and then extremely in the other. This has been given as a reason why men more than women are more easily able to become specialists in their fields of work, and why women more than men are more easily able to organize a variety of events occurring at once and be overseers in their fields of work. Also, a team from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, found that women have up to 15% more brain cell density in certain areas of the frontal lobe, which controls so-called higher mental processes.
4. Women’s styles of leadership are successful:
In the Myers and Briggs Type Indicator, there are Transactional and Transformational styles of leadership. Transactional leadership is based on events, not people. A style that fits beneath this umbrella is Management by Exception Leadership. Its style is to command and control. You wield power based on your position within the company. Your style is to identify mistakes, correct them and take disciplinary action on personnel. Another style is identified as `Contingent/ Reward Leadership’. Your style is to let people know what is to be expected and the rewards they will get if they meet expectations.
Under the Transformational styles are The Visionary and The Catalyst styles. They are called transformational styles because they focus on creating personal change for employees. Women are more likely than men to use the most effective style (Transformational) and less likely than men the use the least effective style (Manage by Exception). Currently women use more interpersonal styles (called consideration style) and men use more task-orientated style (called initiating style), although women in male dominated industries tend to use the traditional `masculine’ styles of leadership more.
5. Men Have Been Pushed Into Leadership Roles for Too Long, and Need Time out for Themselves
Men across the planet have a higher suicide rate than women. They tend to die younger and be less healthy throughout life. Some of this can be attributed to the male myth of strength and self-reliance, so asking for help is not seen as `manly’. Male disconnection and loneliness (greatest cause of illness and suicide) also comes from generation after generation of men being forced away from the home and community, by war, by work, and by divorce. Women have let men rule and in doing so have taken time out for themselves to grow and to connect with what’s important to them. Now men need this time to sit back and contemplate. And the good news is that it’s already happening.
“ If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?” Gloria Steinem
1. Stand in front of a mirror, acknowledge all your perfect imperfections, and decide you love yourself the most anyway.
2. While you’re at it, look into your eyes and say`I love you’ and mean it.
3. Walk through a garden or park and really check out the flowers. They have amazing patterns that are the very same as other patterns in the universe, like the stars, our blood vessels, the DNA in all living things and the lines on our faces. Amazing.
4. Make a list of ten things you’ve always wanted to do, then start planning how and when you’re going to do them.
5. Sit in a darkened room, close your eyes, put your hand on your heart and feel it beating. Wonder at the feat of who you truly are: a living, breathing miracle.
6. Look out on a beautiful natural view and acknowledge the wonderful world that we live in. It’s truly a Garden of Eden right here on Earth, and we’re so lucky to have been given this gift… and it’s free!
7. Meditate on the back of your eyelids: There’s a while universe going on in there, and if you focus on the backs of your eyelids you’ll get a whole fireworks display. And check out the patterns as per No. 1.
8. Spend a few days lying in bed, drinking tea, eating cookies, and reading a great novel from beginning to end. Let it take you away to another place, and in between have lots of naps and time just staring out the window. It’s amazing how tired we actually get in our busy lives, and taking a few days out to just read, rest and ponder can rejuvenate you more than a holiday abroad (especially if you drop the caffeine while you take the sabbatical, and do some meditation as well). You could dream up a whole new career, plan the ten things you’ve always wanted to do, and get some well needed perspective on where you’re at in life.
9. Do daily practice of a single meditation technique for one month. Go to a class, buy a guided CD or discover a technique you like on the internet. Stick to you commitment to last for a month, and see what it can do for you. It may even change your life.
10. Do (at least) one thing you love doing every day. Make a list if need be, and make sure you prioritise to get your one-thing in. In fact, prioritise this at-least-one-thing, over a thing you don’t like doing each day. After all, you create your own life so you may as well make it fun!
1. There is no good and bad, that’s a human made concept: There just is.
2. No one does anything because they think it’s `bad’ anyway. Hitler thought he was doing the right thing, so really, his heart was in the right place, as was Teresa’s
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1. If you’re not in the job of your dreams, or in a job that leads you there, a good idea is to take some time off to give yourself space to find what it is you actually want to do. Sometimes you have to give up the old in order to find the new. When I want to move in a new direction or find the next move, I take some time off work and just rest, hang out, meditate and have time to actually think about what it is I'm doing here and what I want to do. It usually proves invaluable. 

2. Secondly, spend some time each day dreaming about your ideal life; what you'd love to do in life. Your life purpose is actually your deepest dreams and longings! Fantastic isn't it? So spend some time day dreaming EVERY day and really get to the heart of what those dreams are. And sometimes you'll think you've found it, and then a day or two later, you'll discover it actually goes deeper. I keep asking myself the million dollar question. `If I had a million dollars and knew I didn't have to work for the rest of my life, what would I do?' This is a great way of discovering what your life's purpose is. Of course first of all I think `I want to travel, buy this and that', but after I’ve done all that, what would I do then? What would I do that I love so much, I would do without getting paid for it? That's a big clue - your life purpose is the thing or things you would do, whether you were paid for doing them or not
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These green steps for your home are super easy: Not only that, but you can get the products for free, and you’ll save money by having them. Who could ask for more!
1. Replace all your light globes with fluros. You can get these free in NSW and ACT through the Enviro Saver Program www.envirosaver.com.au . In fact, you can go on-line and book a free energy assessment for your home. Fluros are also often given out free at shopping centres through various programs. By replacing 10 halogen lights with fluros, you can save around $130 a year
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1. This became a credo of mine… attempt the impossible in order to improve your work - Bette Davis
2. The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up - Patch Adams
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According to the UN Report, Livestock’s Long Shadow, raising animals for food is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.”
1. Vegetarians helps protect and conserve water
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1. Breathe! When we are stressed our breathing becomes shallow, creating more acid in the body, which in turn gives us more stress (as well as ulcers and sore tummies). Take a few deep breaths, filling up your stomach and then expanding out your chest, and then exhale the opposite: through the chest first and then the stomach. You’ll feel better straight away.
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1. The opposite of the penis is not the vagina…it’s the clitoris. I’m surprised at how many people still believe that a woman’s pleasure is from intercourse only (and why perhaps some women don’t believe they can achieve orgasms.) You see, each foetus starts out female. Once the foetus begins its journey to maleness, the tiny clitoris expands and becomes the penis. Many more women will orgasm from clitoral stimulation than through penetration alone.
2. Both sexes have a G-spot. For women it’s in the vagina, and some women can orgasm just by penetration because their G-spot is so sensitive. For men it’s in the anus. Now I know some of you blokes are a bit sensitive when it comes to having things put where the sun don’t shine, but why would God have put a G-spot in your anus if she didn’t want you to use it? It kinda negates that argument that homosexual sex is against God’s laws (unless he’s wrong, of course), and it’s also a good one for the girls to know too, as it can really heighten a man’s orgasm if his G-spot is stimulated at the same time as his usual appendages
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Comment by Christine
on 5 Steps to Finding Your Life’s Purpose
Yes, definitely my own experience - I started in earnest with it a couple of years ago when I gave up my job with no idea what I would do next, only that I needed to give myself time to find that out. I'd read about life purpose before and had these ideas in mind and basically gave myself the time and space to experiment. I called it an experiment too, just to keep myself open to all possibilities.
Happy you liked the post. if you write more on the topic, let me know.