well-being | Julian Summerhayes

Making plans – Julian Summerhayes

Each morning over the Christmas break I have woken up with a strong, meaningful thought. The common theme has been mindfulness. This year I read The …

Seize the moment – Julian Summerhayes

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Cultivating a practice of sayin…

The simple life – Julian Summerhayes

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” – Thoreau There isn’t any aspect of our lives that we couldn’t simplify. Our houses. Our …

Home is where the heart is – Julian Summerhayes

I used to think this expression meant the physical, but the older I get the more I recognise the metaphysical. Before my first daughter was born, I h…

Good health – Julian Summerhayes

“The groundwork of all happiness is health.” – James Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859) We’re living longer, longer than most of us can imagine. We are what we…

Enjoy now – Julian Summerhayes

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” James Dean Every day is an opportunity to create something remarkable. But, sometimes…

Breathing life into your career – Julian Summerhayes

Are you a linchpin? Is you raison d’être to create something remarkable, or do you merely fit it in, keep your head down and hope that you will get n…

A changeless life – Julian Summerhayes

In this modern age, it’s counterintuitive to suggest stasis as a way of being. But, imagine a life where we didn’t have to go anywhere, get anything …