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It’s all in the leader

November 10th, 2008 by Natasha

SINCE being together with Big, erm sorry I slipped into my Carrie Bradshaw wanna-be persona for a moment, I’ll recommence… Since being together with Mr C I believe I have become a Spurs fan!
I wasn’t any kind of football fan previously but now I find myself wanting them to WIN WIN WIN! So I know a little of recent reports from White Hart Lane.
From pub team to premiership squad
For example I know that Harry Redknapp, formerly at Portsmouth, is now manager and he took over from Juande Ramos recently. Now under Ramos, Tottenham were losing all their games and had made the worst start to a Premiership season since 1912!
However… since Redknapp took over, the team has transformed into an unrecognisable side!
Players like Bent who were giving goals away are now scoring hat-tricks and defending like a premiership squad and not a pub team!
I have a theory about that. I think if a leader believes in his/her team… the team will act accordingly!
I think what is happening at the Lane is that the players are looking to impress their new manager.
Self-fulfilling prophercy
When people like and respect who they are working for, then it is reflected in what they produce.
I will never forget at school when aged about 11-years-old, Sister Joyce decided to take my folder into the staff room to show all the other teachers because it was well organised and neatly presented.
I remember wanting to stick to that standard, always. I wanted her to always think I was exactly that, organised and well presented!

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Growing old, disgracefully!

November 7th, 2008 by Natasha

WHAT a cute story in today’s Metro on how a pair of glasses were returned to an 89-year-old lady after she dropped them in her compost bin.
It was only after dustmen had been and emptied her bin that Irene Brown from Suffolk realised what had happened.
Now faced with the task of buying another pair, convinced they were lost forever, you can imagine her surprise when suddenly they appeared at her doorstep, in the hands of composting site manager, Peter Clarke.
He had told her “Igna (employed on the conveyer belts) spotted the glasses and saved them before they went through the grinder!”
Innocent lies
This story struck a cord with me because last night I spent the evening with my nonna at her house.
She told me all about her boss who calls her up each morning asking her to come into work.
And how she worked in an office all her life and this was the reason she was able to get such a good pension.
The truth of the matter is that she cleaned offices but for some reason she gives herself a promotion and makes out that she is still going about her business as normal. Just like she did before her stroke.
My nonna continued and looked me right in the eyes, with pride she said: “Did you know the royal family used to come for lunch all the time! I even gave Prince Charles a bottle of your Nonno’s wine once.”!?!

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Do you want people to listen to you? Tell them a story.

November 6th, 2008 by Natasha

I READ a really uplifting interview this morning in the Metro, with celebrated Scottish writer Ali Smith about her life-long love of story-telling.
The author of award winning novel The Accidental, said that stories have the power to connect people and she added that through stories we understand each other better.
No one moved
The Accidental reflects Smith’s love for stories which challenge the ordinary and in this case it involves a set of characters whose lives change due to a stranger entering their life!
A touching thing Smith said in her interview was: “I remember when I was very young, a teacher reading us Little House on the Prairie.
“The dog Jack had gone missing and when the bell rang for the end of class, no one moved; we all wanted to find out whether the dog would be found. I realised even at that age how important that story had become to us.”

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He’s happily attached? Some single women don’t mind!

November 3rd, 2008 by Natasha

A VERY interesting phenomena is happening to me girls and I would like to share it with you, because perhaps some of you have or are experiencing the same thing.
It starts with an exciting email a friend sent about how there’s a spark between her and a guy from work.
I was very happy for her because this perfectly wonderful young woman has been single for ages. I then probed further and found out that this man my friend is flirting with is living with his girlfriend.
So the alarm bells should be ringing for my mate, I think to myself; but no dear readers… this is what she replies: “I’m assuming he’s happy as he’s a generally happy kind of chap. So, nothing more at the moment. Unless he dumps her. On New Year’s Eve. Lol – I’m so bad!”
Now, if I had been reading her email about a year ago I wouldn’t have thought anything more of it. However, now that I am attached, about to be married, I will admit to you, I was a little rattled. Why?
Well it must be because I realise how cut-throat my fellow sisters can be in the tricky world of Love. My friend’s response is an example of how single women today are pulling out all the stops in their quest for sexual and emotional fulfilment.
And if that means breaking up a happy home in the meanwhile.. so be it.
Okay, so I don’t know the ins and out of my friend’s current situation but it did make me realise the following: “Until you wear the shoes ~ you don’t know how they feel”! Love as always, Nat X

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It’s all in the leader

Growing old, disgracefully!

Do you want people to listen to you? Tell them a story.

He’s happily attached? Some single women don’t mind!