Mark Desvaux

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In Life, It’s Not Just How Brightly You Burn But How Long Your Embers Glow

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Life is Beautiful. Dream Big. Dream Often. Act Daily

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Make Your Own Sunset Unforgettable

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A Day Not Lived Is A Firework Unlit

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The Art of Nibbling

Imagine a hungry mouse whose dream came true. The most enormous, tasty chunk of cheese which fell under the fridge. Heaven! But how does it start to eat it? Simple. It nibbles. The time management trainers and goal-setting gurus have encouraged us for years to chunk our goals and dreams to make them manageable, but …

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To See Genius In Others, You Have To First See It In Yourself

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Being Child-like

I love the randomness of having a two year old toddler in the house. Life is just one big adventure and we get to re-live it with them. Then suddenly we remember that we don’t have to re-live, we just need to start living it again. The world through the eyes of a child is …

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The simple things in life

We are often told that it’s the simple things in life that bring the most pleasure. There has been a trend for us to make our lives too fast and complicated. Maybe we are now at a new dawn, a dawn of getting back to basics.

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Eye of the storm

At times of change, especially whilst caught in the eye of a storm, rather than put your energy on the devastation around you, try to focus on the better future ahead after the clean up.

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Financial crisis

The financial crisis is one of the most profound teachers of our time. Whether in America, Iceland, the UK, the rest of Europe, Asia or beyond, it is showing us that everything in this world is interconnected and we cannot survive without considering each other and pulling together. Boundaries, flags and the “me culture” ultimately …

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Don’t Save the Planet

I’ve come to realise that we don’t need to “Save The Planet”. The planet will be fine without us. We need to save humankind. The solution lies in all of us taking 100% responsibility for everything we do every minute of every day in order to start healing our home, a home we are consuming …

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Time of crisis

In time of a crisis, we have the opportunity to become emotionally strong.

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Credit crunch

With the financial turmoil worldwide reported in the media there is only one decision you need to make today. Do you look outward, buy into the fear and become part of the problem or do you look within, and know that you have the ability to weather whatever passing storm may come your way?

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Secret of life

One of the secrets of life is to let go of what you don’t need, whether you already have it or think you need it.

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Thoughts

Remember that every thought you have is either a deposit or withdrawal from your Life’s bank account.

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Darkest moments

Sometimes during our seemingly darkest moments, the brightest light can appear.

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Slow down

With all the major issues surrounding us today, the world is trying to teach us two words – ‘Slow Down’

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Super humans

I know when we will have evolved to super humans… it’ll be the day everyone remains in their seats until the airplane doors are open.

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Energy vampires

Don’t hang out with energy vampires.

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Open to everything

Practise being open to everything and attached to nothing.

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