Author Archives: Nick Cork

Habit

What we think and believe is very powerful – our thoughts create our experience and reality. Everything that we think contributes towards the reality that we experience on a daily basis. It is therefore vital that we remain vigilant of … Continue reading

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Wheels

It is very tempting once we have put our plans into operation to return to them incessantly and make changes or amendments unnecessarily. However, meddling with something once it has started can have disastrous or unforeseen consequences. Of course, there … Continue reading

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Clouds

We all know people who unfailingly seem to see the worst in any situation. Before you’ve even finished telling them that you are expecting your first child, they will launch into a story about someone who lost their first baby in … Continue reading

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Cake

It is very tempting when things ‘go wrong’ in our lives to blame someone or something outside of us. The bankers/government/multinationals etc are responsible for the economic uncertainty most of us face. He made me feel uncomfortable by forcefully stating … Continue reading

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Light

It’s easy when we hear about one group of humans inflicting severe suffering and death on another to feel anger and revulsion – particularly when the act is described or shown in graphic and gory detail by the media. We … Continue reading

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Butterfly

Change is constant in life and it is something that many of us both fear and try to avoid at all costs. We create elaborate self-deceptions to convince ourselves that we do not need to change or that we can … Continue reading

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Hills

As someone who spends a lot of time running and thinking (often at the same time), there are certain connections that can be made between running and life in general. One of these is that the closer you get to the top … Continue reading

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Superstar…

How we see the world very much depends on what we expect to see. If we are a glass half empty type, we will notice all the wrongs and injustices in the world, how ‘people like us’ never seem to … Continue reading

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Tomorrow

We are taught from an early age that we are separate from everyone and everything around us. We develop an ego, which reinforces this separateness and sets us against each other in competition and conflict. Not just with other humans, … Continue reading

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Patience

There are times when it seems that our plans and dreams are never going to materialise as we would have hoped. Our lives can become stuck occassionally and we appear to be in a holding pattern, like planes during a … Continue reading

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