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Monthly Archive for February, 2008

Podcast : Fifty -Only once.

Fifty – Only Once. That’s the title of this weeks podcast and this weeks ‘must read’ article by Geoff Thompson, but what can it be about. Age. Cricket scores. World record for tea cake consumption. Biggest crowd Coventry City get at a home game. It’s none of these. In a welcome dose of inspiration and [...]

 
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Fifty – Only once.

At an early stage of my development in all things internal, when I still prayed for luck when a good result was needed and I still employed blame if things went wrong I was invited onto the ‘Tom Robinson radio show’ to talk about the release of my first book, Watch My Back. I hit [...]

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Podcast: Jesus is a Factory Labourer

In this week’s podcast Richard Barnes explores with Geoff Thompson why we treat people differently. Why do we make judgments on people, why do we treat different people differently? Do you speak to your bank manager differently to a homeless person on the street? Does one demand more respect, compassion and time than the other? [...]

 
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Jesus is a Factory Labourer

(Note: when we come to the part that says ‘Jesus’ please feel free to replace it with whatever name suits your conviction). Jesus is a factory labourer! It’s true; honestly, it came to me as a revelation half way through my daily run. Jesus…is a factory labourer. Blasphemous? Maybe, I don’t think so but….I’ll take [...]

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Podcast : 100 Realities

There are so many ways to view the world, but which is the right one. And when you’ve figured what is really real and you don’t like the reality of it, how do you change it? ‘100 Realities’ is the must read article that comes under the spotlight for a chat in this week’s podcast. [...]

 
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100 Realities

(Inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead) Know this: a small world, one that offers limitation as staple, one that is circumvented by fear, one that has guards of curtail at every exit is not reality – or should I say it is reality, but just one of a hundred possible realities. A small [...]

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The news of the death of someone that was on their way home from a training course came as a massive shock. Even though Geoff did not know him personally, the message from the family afterwards inspires this article. Plus updates on the latest projects, some recommended reading, references to tea cakes and some poor [...]

 
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Are you where you want to be?

It was Christmas. I was sat with Sharon having a cup of tea and we were preparing to go out for a well earned (posh) meal. I’d just, one hour since, finished teaching a successful course and I was contemplating on what a great day it had been. We’d had two hundred amazing people attend [...]

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