Post Tagged with: "Roger Harty"

‘FEEL the Fear and do it anyway’ is the title of a famous book by Susan Jeffers. The title of the book speaks for itself – it really is all connected with the area of psychological fear and in simple terms it is telling us to feel i.e. (recognise) the […]

I CANNOT emphasise enough the importance of ownership in our lives. It is a key to success, health and happiness, which practically every human being strives for, but you will fail to succeed in any of these areas unless ownership is a very strong part of the relationship. I can hear […]

THIS is something that has struck a chord with me for a long time – that basically theme parks are fundamentally extremely safe places. They have to be because they would not be able to get insurance cover. If there was any real danger of life being lost then insurance companies […]

IT’S ok not to be ok. This is the slogan of ‘Suicide Aware’, a very powerful organisation which would obviously choose a very powerful slogan. It is without doubt that a lot of thought and effort was put into the choice of this slogan in order to get the right […]

  MODERN technology has had a ying/yang effect on our world. On the one hand it has brought great advances to our lives. For instance you can settle down with a hot cup of tea in less than three minutes, whereas on the other hand, with all the latest gadgets for […]

  I COULD say millions, but I don’t think I’m exaggerating if I said billions of people pray in various forms all over the world every day. No one religion has dominion over prayer: Catholics and Protestants alike pray in their churches; Muslims pray in their Mosques; Buddhists in their […]

  PADRE Pio told many stories over his lifetime. In fact he was renowned for his recall and his sharp and sometimes cutting wit. One of his own favourite stories was about a local Italian farmer who had never been on a train before, but wanted to visit his daughter […]

“I THINK therefore I am” is a famous quote from the French philosopher René Descartes. This suggests that we see the world through the eyes of our thoughts. This is certainly true, but what if our thoughts are limited (which they most can certainly be!). Then that would suggest that if […]

  HOW often have you heard the phrase ‘Life can be funny’? I suppose we use the phrase when life throws stuff at us that we weren’t expecting to happen, or when something jumps up out of the blue and quite simply knocks us out. Another saying that I love […]

OK, as humans we like to engage in things that are worthwhile and that are both beneficial to ourselves and to the world around us. Well that is the ordinary run-of-the-mill way, but we all know, it’s a funny world we live in. As my father used to say, “the […]

WHEN the announcement of the engagement of Prince Charles to Lady Diana was made in 1981, Charles came out with a ‘classic’ when asked “if they were in love?” His answer hit the headlines of every newspaper around the world; it was “Whatever in love means”. Now I think it […]

  I HAVE said it on numerous occasions that to help understand the deeper aspects of life, that it is far better and dare I say, much easier, to ask the right questions rather than looking for the right answers. May I say at this stage a huge congratulations to […]

  GET to the point Roger. What in God’s name does a title like that mean – A Duck is Duck. Well – exactly that – A Duck is A Duck – Because it waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck – Why? Because it is […]

Smile and the world smiles with you. Weep and you weep alone. This is a phrase that I remember often being quoted from my youth around my house. It always held some sort of resonance with me but at the time I never knew quite why. I also find it […]

The success of recovery is in discovery Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary Smile This is the second line of my personal mantra. One thing is for sure, if we are looking for the extraordinary around us we don’t have to look too far. There are a few basic […]

The success of recovery is in discovery, Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary, Smile This is the first line of my own personal mantra which I wrote about last week. It is basically reminding me to learn something new every day and to keep my mind open. What I […]

  A GOOD workman always has the appropriate tools for the job. Everything required is at hand which in turn makes any given procedure so much easier and stress free. In life it is also extremely important to have readily available tools, but the type of tools I am referring […]

  AS you can see from my title above, addiction is but a simple word, but is so important to recognise all the pain and hardship that this simple word has inflicted and continues to inflict on individuals and families down through the years all over the world. It is […]

  THIS is something that I came across by pure chance and all I can say is ‘boy has it made a difference to my life!’ As you know I have written and spoken about my recovery from serious depression on many occasions and if I was asked the single most […]

  I MUST admit that having lived on this planet for over half a century, I have experienced many different things in my life but I don’t think anything has intrigued or surprised me more than discovering The Power of Now. First of all let me also admit that it is […]

  THE meaning of the word paradox is an ‘an apparent contradiction’. Great examples of paradoxes are “I can resist anything but temptation,” Oscar Wilde, “what a pity that youth must be wasted on the young,” George Bernard Shaw, or in culinary terms the expression ‘Jumbo Shrimp’. I’m suggesting that the […]

  PICTURE, if you will, a large ship with many sailors on board in heavy storm conditions heading for the rocks off the Southwest coast of Ireland (not too difficult to picture with the weather we have been experiencing recently!). The sailors are terrified as disaster seems imminent, when suddenly a […]

I GREW up in Boherbee Tralee (AKA The Yellow Road). My mother ran a local grocery store for more than 30 years. Coming from this background it gave me an early and great insight into (a) dealing with the public and (b) the importance of structure and organisation in running a […]

  OUR conditioning – What is it? I suppose a good place to start is to firstly declare the type of conditioning I am referring to. As the title suggests, I am not referring to hair, nor am I referring to the physical attributes of our bodies. The specific type […]

  TRULY living in ‘The Now’ is a most wondrous and rewarding way to live life. It might sound strange to speak the obvious to people, but the only time you can truly live is Now. Have you ever managed to live five minutes ago or in five minutes time? It […]

  THIS is a continuation from last week’s column (click here for previous column) To appreciate and understand this fully, I believe we have to go back to the origin of man which I refer to as ancient man. Why is this so? Well we have to understand the origin of […]

  IT is a fact that anytime we do something new we are stepping out of our comfort zone. Why am I so confident about making this statement? On examination the reason is obvious. The fact that we are doing something new would suggest that we have never done it […]

POLONIUS: This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell, my blessing season this in thee! This is a quote from Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’ and it is the advice that Polonius […]

  IF truth be known, I am often fascinated by the hidden messages of childhood fairy-tales and animated Disney productions. Often these messages can be very subtle, but once revealed become glaringly obvious. There is no better example of this than the great Disney film, The Wizard of Oz. I […]

I WROTE in last week’s article – here – about how anger as an emotion has got particularly bad press,  but that in reality, if one is to explore it properly, I believe there are as many, if not more, positive aspects to this phenomenal emotion as there are negative. It is […]