The Little Blue Book

And, if things are a little tough right now, spend a few moments thinking about the little things you can be grateful for with this day, the little things that add meaning to your life on this day. A glance over the heads of your family will do it. Then scope ahead; today will pass, this week will pass, and the problems you are carrying now will pass with it. “I suspect that we will need more than just an economic stimulus; we will need a stimulus in civility, in community and in charity that can only be generated from within, as we lament and then renew ourselves together.” Tim Costello 30 March 2020, Pro Bono Australia probonoaustralia.com.au So, being grateful for the little joys in our lives – wherever those joys come from – is one way to add meaning to this event, to keep the focus on ‘the good’. While the challenges will follow us through these months, keeping this focus will protect our mental health and wellbeing while we deal with them. (1) People at Work Project: An Assessment of Psychosocial Hazards in the Workplace; Worksafe Queensland; QUT, ANU (2013-2015) Those of us caught on the treadmill, we’ve missed a lot of our children’s lives. But the toddler becomes the ‘teen’ before we know it; then becomes the adult and we wonder where the years went. PostScript Section 2 Section 3 Section 1 13 ADA Australia