by | Oct 30, 2016 | Balance
Halloween is just around the corner and everyone seems excited and thrilled about it. Trick-or-treating, funny and scary costumes, Halloween parties, bunches of candies and chocolates. What’s not to love? If you are a parent, you’re probably busy organizing...
by | Oct 23, 2016 | Balance
Happiness can be defined in so many ways. Others, who are hard to please overrate it making it hard to describe. But, literally, simple things make our life happy. Some people make themselves happy through the things they can buy. They grasp and hoard a lot of things...
by Alastair Macartney | Nov 23, 2015 | Path
It was a real shock when it happened. Totally unexpected. I wasn’t a terrorist. The last thing I expected was to be pinned to the harsh gravel pavement by someone kneeling on my spine, hard. My hands were handcuffed behind my back and my face was being ground...
by Alastair Macartney | Jul 2, 2015 | Balance
Balance is important in life – it’s one of our four pillars of the Perfect Madness frame of mind. We mention it frequently in our blog posts but there’s a part that I don’t really talk about. There’s one aspect that I’ve never quite...
by Elyse Macartney | Jun 30, 2015 | Adventure, Path
It’s the 4th of July this weekend and while everyone is out shopping for fireworks and BBQ supplies, I must admit for the first time in my life I don’t have the USA on my mind at all. Don’t get me wrong, my blood runs red, white and blue. I love America. ...
by Alastair Macartney | Jun 25, 2015 | Adventure, Path
Sometimes life jumps out at you. It grabs you by the shoulder, rips you around, glares in your face, challenges you, makes you what you are. These are good days. These are the opportunities that present themselves to you. The ones you grab you by the horns. But many...
by Elyse Macartney | Jun 23, 2015 | Path
I would love to say that I start every single day with a huge smile and a heavily contented heart. I should say that anyway, my life is pretty much perfect. But for some reason, and I know it’s a cliche, Mondays find a way to get me down. On that dreaded day...
by Alastair Macartney | Jun 18, 2015 | Balance, Path
I’ve got lots going on right now. I’m planning some major projects, changing career, moving to another continent, going traveling, trying to be a father to my amazing son and a husband to my beautiful wife. It’s tricky trying to fit it all in....
by Elyse Macartney | Jun 16, 2015 | Adventure, Path
Every evening over dinner my husband and I play a little game, which is more a way to share, stay connected, and start conversations that anything else. We each say our best, worst, tomorrow and gratitude. We start by sharing the best part of our day, then the worst...
by Alastair Macartney | Jun 11, 2015 | Balance
Stolen It was stolen from me. Stolen. I didn’t know what to do. I felt robbed. I was robbed. Why me? How could that be fair? It’s my life. That’s what was stolen – my life. I had won a World Championship. I was fit and strong (relatively). The...
