Leap of Faith
It took Michelangelo four years to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Mona Lisa reportedly took Leonardo da Vinci three years to complete and neither of these examples show how long it took for them to get to a standard to be able to do the paintings. The list of great works, achievements and highlights […]
Out on a limb
The morning of Christmas Eve 1990: a scream came up the stairs, “Steven, get down here NOW!” My parents were obviously mad about something but I had no idea why until I got down there; they had just received a letter from my college. It went something like this: “We are writing to wish Steven […]
How to Empty Your Mind in 4 Steps
If you want the simple meditation solution that will give you almost instant results then download this free meditation MP3 here. Otherwise let me explain my simple meditation to clear your mind. As a child I would lay very still in bed, relax my muscles starting from my feet working my way up through my body. I […]
23 Years Paralysed – Would I reverse my accident?
When I hit ‘post’ on this article 23 years ago to the second I broke my neck. 276 months. 1200 weeks. Just before I dived in I looked at my watch: 10:31PM. Would I go back in time and change that moment? Over the past 23 years I’ve been asked the question repeatedly. I’ve pondered […]
Practising Gratitude
Although I believe I am the type of person who is naturally quite grateful for the life I live, I never used to give it much thought. Like most people it was often only when something was taken away that I realised how important it was, and when something new arrived I was only grateful […]
Can you really choose the life you want?
Shortly after I came out of hospital Lewis, who was around seven years old at the time, came to visit with a massive smile on his face. “Guess what,” he said. “I’ve found you a job!” He was so excited and pleased with himself. I hadn’t seen Lewis since before my accident and to a […]
How to get more motivation
In 2007 I enrolled in a six week anger management course with my partner at the time. It wasn’t because we needed to deal with anger issues, but instead we wanted to deal with our anxiety and stop allowing things to get on top of us. Several weeks into the course I had the opportunity […]
One Step at a Time
For the first few months after breaking my neck I was on bed rest, flat on my back with weights hanging down over the top of the bed attached to a halo that had been bolted to 4 points in my head. At about 6am the ward would come alive, some patients were taken to […]
Being happy with what we have
If I asked two people how happy they were – a lottery winner on the day they won the lottery, and a homeless person on the day they were made homeless – it would be no surprise one would probably be over the moon and the other pretty miserable. Ask the same people the same […]
My Own ‘Mini Hell’
Winston Churchill once said “When you’re going through hell, keep going.” I’m not comparing my present struggle to those of the soldiers in WWII, to whom Winston Churchill was referring, but it sure feels like hell for me right now. Around two weeks ago I trapped or damaged a nerve in my neck, which has […]
