by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel Des emerged yesterday morning only just awake saying “I have a great idea- I’ll tell you at the beach!� As we walked down to the water’s edge, Des began to talk about his idea and related it to the book, Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space ...

by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel In any business there is an advantage to be gained in every now and again stepping away from the details of what we are doing and all our tasks, however essential and urgent, so that we can look at our challenges and the business itself from a more “elevated” ...

by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel Our beach notes today are inspired by the 100 year commemoration of the first surf rescue on our local Coolangatta beach, by the all-volunteer Surf Life Saving Club. Four women - clad in the neck-to-knee swimming costumes dictated by the times - and one man - swam out to ...

by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel Last week I started swimming with 3 local guys who swim each day, weather permitting, from one end of the beach to the other. One end being Greenmount Beach, the other end being Coolangatta Beach. This is about 750 meters (half a mile) in length. I have been talking about...

by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel T-Shirt Messages from the Beach This morning as we we walk on the beach we saw a walker wearing a tee shirt with the message displayed Never, Never, Never, give up! I said that’s a good message and   Des asked how does that fit with your Law of Attraction?...

by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel Today I was making the badge for my newly launched SAB -Super Abundant Blogger - award. I had just taken this photo when a couple of other regular morning beach walkers, Ros and Ivan, stopped and tried to guess what the letters stood for. After several guesses we enlighte...

by Guest Writers Suzie Cheel & Des Walsh "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity" Seneca,Roman philosopher, (5 BC - 65 AD) On our morning beach walks we often see surfers getting ready to ride the waves. Typically they go through a number of limbering up exercises and yoga style s...

by Guest Writers Suzie Cheel and Des Walsh It came to us while walking on the beach last week. You know how, what with Facebook and Twitter and Plurk and all the other social networking communities we all have these hundreds or thousands of friends online? Well, what if we were to friend some of tho...

True Story from Our Local Neighborhood by Guest Writers Suzie Cheel & Des Walsh At Kirra beach, near where we live, there is a new landmark, the multi-storey Kirra Surf apartment building, the latest manifestation of local retailing icon of the same name. Its history is closely linked with that...

by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel To move forward I know I need to let go of both physical and emotional stuff. Tomorrow we have a council collection, so today we have spent a couple of hours cleaning out the garage and clearing out accumulated things I might use one day. Des just commented how amazingly ...