Magic Minute A Cat’s Nine Lives By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // When we saw the bloody mess of our 10-year-old cat’s face, Cherry, our hearts sank. “That’s some cat fight!” I thought. As she was able to move around and eat we made her a nice bed and nursed her as best we could. […]
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Magic Minute Jumping To Conclusions By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // I once met an old guy on a windswept pier holding a fishing line tied around a Coke bottle. His bluish gnarled hands matched his blotchy face. ‘Mmm” I thought, ‘alcohol abuse.’ “Caught anything?” I asked. “Nah, they won’t bite with an Easterly.” To
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Magic Minute “I Can’t! ” “Now I Can!!” By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // From Humble Village to high status as government official, this brave New Guinean woman now had to speak out… And she was terrified! Desperate for help, she flew to Melbourne to overcome her fear and go from “I can’t” to “I
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Magic Minute Negative Self-Talk By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Sometimes we can talk ourselves into things being worse than they really are. Like what happened to a seemingly confident young woman will called Suzie, but in a coaching session, I discovered as a little girl she’d struggled with a mild form of epilepsy called
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Magic Minute Self Acceptance By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // A young guy once asked me, “What if you don’t like yourself and you don’t like where you’ve been?” His cabinet making business had collapsed. His marriage was a dismal failure and to cap it off, bystanders had laughed when he skidded headlong into a
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Magic Minute Trixie The Fox Terrier By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // “Hey, Dad’s back from ferreting rabbits – and he’s got a dog with him!” The boys cried out. Trixie the fox terrier had arrived. From then on she joined them swimming in the local billabong or racing around the Murray River mud flats
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Magic Minute Judged By Others By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Judged By Others – A distraught Peter told me, “Even in our boardroom meetings today, I still see those unforgiving faces glaring back at me year after painful year.” Little Peter had been forced to recite classical poetry every Sunday before stony face traditionalists
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Magic Minute Interesting Elephants By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Interesting Elephants 🐘 – Indian elephants I discovered, can be a lot more interesting than hours of tedious overview at a conference on education and technology. Mercifully Professor Helen Hughes saved us from boredom with a delightful story of her granddaughter at the zoo. At
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Magic Minute Pride and Self Assurance By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Pride and Self Assurance – Who are we not to feel proud of who we are and what we’ve achieved? I once fell into pleasant conversation with a self assured woman and when I asked, “What keeps you busy?” Her response was telling.
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Magic Minute Trouble Communicating By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Trouble Communicating – The whole Primary School stood there in shock. “I’m very unhappy with the state of untidiness in the schoolyard,” the Principal Mrs Johnson admonished at morning assembly. “Papers and lunch wraps carelessly scattered everywhere instead of being put in the proper rubbish
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