Editor’s Note

THE passion ISSUE

This is the issue where we talk all things PASSION.

Inside this issue and every issue of Matters Magazine, you will find passionate people and businesses built on passion. We encourage our readers to embrace a passion for health and a passion for living a vibrant life.

For us, here at Matters Magazine our major passion, at this stage of our lives, is life itself.

That is why Matters Magazine is now a bi-annual publication. We made a conscious decision that we didn’t want our lives to just be about work, even though we love our work. To not just have passion for our work, but for our own selves and each other too.

Matters Magazine has been on the Sunshine Coast for 16 years - nearly two decades. We were passionate at the start, and we are still passionate now. However, over time I admit that our priorities have changed.

Passion, like all emotions, ebbs and flows and changes with times in our lives. In the beginning when I was building the Magazine, my passion was at its absolute peak. My dedication meant I would go to the opening of an envelope for exposure. I would enter all the awards (we won lots too!). I worked sun-up to sun-down, often seven days a week. I was so PASSIONATE about making the Magazine a success. But I had zero work-life balance, zero family time, zero friend time and absolutely zero ‘me time’.

I honestly don’t regret a second, because that got me to this moment in time. A moment in time where I love what I do. Where I spend so much time with family and friends, doing things that are just for me. I walk every morning for an hour (there never used to be time for that!). I am grateful to say, “I am still as PASSIONATE about the magazine, it just doesn’t run ‘my whole life’ anymore. It has become ‘one’ aspect of my life, instead of the ‘only’ aspect of my life.”

If you need to refocus your passion towards what matters, think about what is most important to you. Attending many funerals lately, I can assure you that for me, it’s people, it’s relationships and it’s health. Yes, business matters, for sure, but life matters more!

Vickie Magic

Welcome to Sunshine Coast Audiology

We are a new independent audiology clinic located at Sippy Downs, providing personalised hearing care to the community. We are able to recommend, fit and adjust hearing devices from all leading brands and will do what is right for you.

Emryn Maclachlan Anita Burgess

Call 07 5378 2226 or email info@sunshinecoastaudiology.com.au Shop 10, 1 Scholars Drive, Sippy Downs

Our services include:

• Hearing tests for school-aged children and adults

• Hearing aid fitting, repairs and adjustment from all major brands for adults (including under the Hearing Services Program for eligible pensioners and veterans)

• Supply and fitting of ear plugs for swimming, noise and music