About Me
Are you impatient, feeling a bit lost, facing a few challenges in life…….. looking for some inspiration, a place to get a tip or two on thinking better and moving on in life, something to spark your thinking? Then you are not alone. Life throws crap at us all the time.
Patience, passion, persistence and resilience are things that we are all striving for. We all need to keep learning and to stay open to new ideas. We need to be passionate about a making our lives and the lives of those around us as good as they can be. No doubt we all need to work on our patience a bit (after modern life is so hectic). We can only get where we are going through persistence, and when life throws us crap we need resilience to work our way through it and turn it into fertilizer, so that something can grow from it.
This blog is all about facing up to crap that life throws us, and sharing a conversation along the way to turn that crap into fertilizer.
Mick would love to engage with you about the ideas in this blog, so please don’t be shy about leaving comments and/or getting in touch with him to discuss the ideas, and Mick would love it if you would subscribe to the blog in one of the various ways available. You can also connect with Mick on twitter @theMickMorris………… but you are probably wondering….
Who the hell is this MICK MORRIS character?
Why should you be reading anything by this guy you don’t know? What has he got to offer that a million other bloggers haven’t? And what makes his opinion on overcoming life’s difficulties worth listening to?
Glad you asked because these are all really valid question! So lets deal with them……
Mick Morris
Mick’s Story
Professionally
Mick has a long history of turning life’s crap into fertiliser….. so he has walked the walk, and continues to do so and is not just talking the talk.
Mick has been a professional firefighter for 20 years, so his professional life is all about finding people and situations in chaos, making decisions and taking action to implement strategies to minimise the damage done by the situation and help put the people and the situation on the road to recovery.
Firefighters are first and foremost people. Ordinary people who deal with a range of extraordinary situations, and this can take its toll on Firefighters. After experiencing this first hand, Mick has spent a large part of his firefighting career as a member of his Fire Brigades Critical Incident Support Team, providing help to fellow firefighters when the extraordinary situations they deal with result in stress reactions that negatively impact on their lives.
Personally
Mick’s son, Samuel, had a tragic accident in 2006 . That accident left Samuel with a hypoxic brain injury and a range of severe disabilities. As a result of this tragedy Mick and his wife, with lot’s of help from a whole group of special people, established the Samuel Morris Foundation to support children disabled by near drowning or other hypoxic brain injuries, and to prevent future childhood drownings.. If you like to know the full story check out this post How did I get here?
Mick is also involved in a the leadership of another Charity (see here).
On a personal level you will find Mick trying (sometimes more successfully than at other times, but that’s life) to make a happy home life for his wife and three children while dealing with all the challenges that having a severely disabled child brings with it.
So just like everyone else, Mick’s life is busy, sometimes chaotic and always full of challenges.
So please get in touch, (and stay in touch) by using the contact form further down this page, by sharing your comments on the posts, or following Mick on twitter.
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