Journeys of Body and Mind…

Travel is surely one of the best tools for personal development, when you immerse yourself in another place/culture for a time. Below are articles on some of the places I’ve been – please share your own stories in the comments!

Five on Friday (#5onFri) – April 20th 2012

April 20, 2012
Post-it showing heart around '5 on Fri'

Happy Friday, people! You may know from my blog post on using Twitter effectively that I don’t really do #FollowFriday, though I appreciate the thought when people take the time to do so! There are so many people I could mention in an #FF tweet,

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Before I die…

March 23, 2012
Photo of man dressed as pirate writing on a public wall that invites people to finish the sentence "Before I die..."

Today I stumbled upon a marvellous thing on one of my favourite websites, www.lostateminor.com – a public wall where people could share their “bucket list“; the things they want to do before they die. Last year, I came across and shared this blog post by

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Shorter snippets: Soul Ambition elsewhere on the web

March 10, 2012
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Most of my posts on here are pretty lengthy – detailed ‘how-to’ posts, descriptive travel stories and so on. But since you don’t always have time to read long posts, and I don’t have loads of time between clients and workshops to write lots of

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Anam Mara, Part 2: Seaside

September 1, 2011
View of Trá Na Rossan beach from Atlantic Drive

In my last post, I blogged about Part 1 of my escape to a friend’s cottage in Donegal; a trip that was meant to be a time of writing and creating but came to be more about reading and gestating. This is the second post of

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Anam Mara, Part 1: Fireside

June 18, 2011
Anam Mara cottage, Donegal

In my last post, I blogged about my imminent escape to a cottage in Donegal, for a self-imposed creative retreat. There is a tv in the cottage, but I wasn’t going to be using it; and there’s no internet access. My plan was to bring

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Creative Retreat – Offline ’til 21/3!

March 10, 2011
View of Mulroy Bay, Downings, Co. Donegal

Well, after a really, really busy January and February giving various talks, training courses and residentials, along with some one-to-one coaching, I’m off on a creative retreat! My plan for Soul Ambition was always to develop lots of self-study courses people could use for their

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Railways, Books and Serendipities

December 13, 2010
Cover Image from John Steinbeck

Having just spent the entire night engaged in WordPress-related jiggery-pokery, I thought I might indulge in an entirely non-geekish blog post. (Unless overuse of hyphens counts as geekishness, that is.) Not being able to sleep night before last, being pumped full of antibiotics and assorted

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