Archive for May, 2009
It often happens in relationships, especially after the heady days of early infatuation have passed, that one of the duo takes on the role of bossy parent or bossy teacher. Now instead of two people relating to each other as equal adults one is attempting to iron out the other’s imperfections! Imperfections, that is, as the bossy person perceives them.
The light-hearted banter, fun and sense of exploring and discovering things together as a team become replaced by relentless, tiring, and love-sapping struggle: a struggle by one side to retain their right to do things their way and by the other side to mould their partner into how they ‘should be’.
One minute the PC was working fine and the next minute it was a if an alien force had taken it over.
Place the cursor over an e-mail in the Outlook Inbox and suddenly it would speedily scroll down through every header in the inbox! My immediate thought was that some malware had slipped through the defences – so I closed Outlook and tried to run Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware – but as fast as I loaded the programme it shut itself down.
‘This is serious,’ I thought ‘It’s even taken over my defence programmes!’
The NLP Master Practitioner on the Isle of Purbeck finished on Thursday – 18 great days of NLP in three modules from February through May with the finale being a High Ropes session in Rempstone Forest, Dorset.
The High Zip Wire
There were two key elements to this Ropes session: the Cows Tails course and the Zip Wire. And both are high!
The Cows Tails course is done in pairs and you each manage your own safety with two short ropes (‘cows tails’) attached to your waist. You have the opportunity of doing three lateral traverses through the trees, each of which is higher then the previous one. On the third traverse you could be crossing along a swinging and wobbly log nearly 50′ (16 mtrs) above the forest floor. 
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