Magic Minute A Choking Baby’s Hands of Fate By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // “Mrs. Smale! Mrs. Smale! My baby’s choking!” screamed our distraught neighbour, storming into our front yard, holding her semi-conscious toddler in her arms. His face now purple, our quirky 1950s mother could see this little boy was about to die, and […]
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Magic Minute When a Bully Meets Their Match By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // I was around nine and just turned onto the 3 m high embankment that went across the swamplands to our home when the worst possible thing happened! Breaker Brown, the school bully, appeared from nowhere and grabbed the seat of my
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Magic Minute Awakening to What They See By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // I kept a straight face but froze inside. As coach-leader of my first under 35s camping-tour, one of my young cohorts said, “Have you got any Monty Python tapes?” Everyone looked at me assuming I did, for they were all the rage
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Magic Minute Disappointment Becomes Opportunity By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // As part of my chequered wanderings, I once tried my hand at bus driving. “A good honest job where all I have to do is be nice to people,” I thought. So I set about getting my Light-Frame Bus Licence, and what a disaster
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Magic Minute Your Untold Dimensions By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Born into a struggling single parent family just after World War II, it wasn’t easy for me to find my feet in the world and discover my untold dimensions. Yet, by the time computers were upon us, I was already an expert in helping
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Magic Minute Keeping The End in Mind By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Never compare yourself to someone else’s ‘easy’ ride to success. All this does is reinforce your negative notion of yourself while you battle on with no end in sight. Truth is, you’re making the mistake of celebrating these guys at the top
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Magic Minute Making A Difference By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // It’s never easy to know if our words have made a difference. As a secondary school emergency teacher, I noticed a year-8 student seem a bit lethargic. “You seem a bit tired,” I said. “Yeah, I am. I’ve been playing chicken with trains all
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Magic Minute Opening New Doors By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // You never know the background of people you befriend or the doors they can open once they get a nice feeling for you. They could know somebody, who knows somebody, who could lessen the pain of running that dispiriting job-seeking gauntlet and open new
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Magic Minute Sorting Yourself Out First By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // I was once asked, “What does getting you right first actually mean? And how does it relate to public speaking?” A valid question. Here’s what I said. Getting You right first stems from my 40 years of helping people overcome their fear of
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Magic Minute Behind a Book’s Cover By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Can you believe this? Right up till I was 22, I’d proudly announce to anyone who’d listen, “I’ve never read a book in my life!” How misguided and sad. Already working in a junkyard at 13, I can’t recall my struggling single mum
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