The majority of us will be thinking about the upcoming year at some time in the near future. If you are anything like me, you’ll find yourself gazing backward before looking forward. Dwelling on things that have already happened is not always beneficial, especially if it consumes more of your time than is necessary...
My recent visit to the Normandy Beaches, the site of the D-Day landings, served as an inspiration for this piece. On a previous trip, I had seen Omaha Beach and the American Military Cemetery, which is perhaps the most well-known and well-visited of all the landing locations...
It’s is very often that I come across clients who are obsessed with someone. The level of obsession is so high that it often means that normal life cannot carry on without some form of validation...
The concept of stimulus and response has been written about many times in self-help books. Perhaps most famously, Stephen Covey talked about leaving a break between stimulus and response and using our self-awareness to respond in the right way...
Many of us will enjoy reading a good book, writing a blogpost or listening to a good story. These activities build our imagination and keep our mind active...
We hear a lot about values and principles in the general media these days and if you believed everything you read, you might feel that we are not living our lives in the way we should. However, values are simple and they are ours to choose but what are they?...
We all do it. We convince ourselves that filing our tax return or planning that career move can wait until tomorrow or next week or next month. We bury our heads in the sand waiting for the right time, knowing that the right time is usually right now. We beat ourselves up because of it knowing that the only person who can change it is us...
I often ask myself that why it is that anxiety and depression are so common in a modern world where we should theoretically, be more content than we are...
Many people in the world are getting used to a new post-lockdown world which is not quite the same as it was before. Restrictions and the threat of infection, isolation and financial and personal loss...
I have read the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People many times and taught others its principles. As Covey rightly said "you need to learn to teach and teach to learn". The first three habits are extremely effective for anyone looking to add structure to their lives in a way that gets them out "the rut"...
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