1 Minute Motivator: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

by Eleanor March 5, 2010
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“I’m just catching up on yesterday,
tomorrow I will be ready for today.”
Do you ever have days where you seem to spend the whole time chasing your tail. It might be that no matter what you do, you never quite seem to get everything done?
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World Book Day 2010

by Eleanor March 4, 2010
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Every March, children up and down the UK dress up as their favourite character from a book. They might have the opportunity to hear extra stories at home time and whatever else happens, they will definitely come home with a World Book Day Token. This token is worth £1 and allows a child to get [...]


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1 Minute Motivator: Pass round the forks

by Eleanor March 4, 2010
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Over the last few days we’ve spent time finding our elephants and grabbing a fork in order to eat them. There is one final key to elephant eating success: pass round the forks.
If you’ve been here all week, you should by now have a to-do list with three items on it. You may even have [...]


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Back tomorrow

by Eleanor March 3, 2010
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For the first time in the two months since we started blogging here consistently, Give A Brick will not be publishing new content today (aside from this short explanation )
I met with an ITV Wales journalist yesterday afternoon and told her about Give A Brick helping with the campaign for legislation to control the [...]


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Legislation for a weapon? You can help!

by Eleanor March 2, 2010
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Earlier last month I learned of a device that targets people under the age of 25. With three children all falling into this age group, its indiscriminate nature bothered me. I emailed Home Secretary Alan Johnson, no joy. I asked my MP to ask Mr Johnson to speak to the inventor of the device, nothing. [...]


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1 Minute Motivator: Grab a fork

by Eleanor March 2, 2010
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Following on from yesterday when we selected the elephant we were going to eat, today we’re thinking about forks. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time of course. But we’re not going to be using our fingers, hence the forks
So you’ve got your dream in your sights. You defined [...]


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Daffodils, Dewi Sant & the promise of Spring

by Eleanor March 1, 2010
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Back in January I anticipated the arrival of the beautiful sign that Winter would soon be over, the daffodil. After an unexpectedly cold two months, I saw my first crop of yellow just two days ago.
Here in Wales today we are celebrating the day of our patron Saint, David, with cakes, leeks, National costume and [...]


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1 Minute Motivator: Pick your elephant

by Eleanor March 1, 2010
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Encouraged by a discussion about how to eat an elephant, today’s one minute motivator is about defining your dreams. We’re told to eat an elephant a bite at a time (more on grabbing forks tomorrow ) but before you can do so, you need to get your elephant in your sights.
Grab a piece of [...]


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Found: My Elephant. The Pre-Writing Challenge

by Eleanor February 28, 2010
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How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. That’s how Give A Brick was born
Aside from the rather large elephant that needs eating right here on this site, I’ve found my own personal elephant:

Like the very best of challenges, this one came about as a result of a ‘thinking out [...]


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1 Minute Motivator: Are you a bucket filler or dipper?

by Eleanor February 28, 2010
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Today we have another musing from the wonderful sap-basis-abap.com It will take longer than a minute to read but with no specific action included at the end, I’m hoping you’ll let me off
You have heard of the cup that overflowed? This is a story of a bucket that is like the cup, only [...]


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