NEWS

It’s that time of year again. The time when we all ponder what brilliant new positive habit or change we will incorporate into our life on January 1st. Then slowly start to feel guilty by about January 10th, and then barely remember what it even was by January 28th. Rather than forming a new positive

Win or Learn. Never fail – Nelson Mandela. This quote may be familiar to many of you but it was recently new to me. Language is powerful, particularly in the way we speak to ourselves. If we view things as failures, how hard will it be to dust ourselves off and go again? Everything we

This year, you need to view January 1st as the start line rather than December as the winning tape. Instead of the usual patter, patter, slow down, adjust your mindset to on your marks, get set… Time is like a budget. We have to spend it wisely and we can’t ask for any more. I

Knowing what you want can be one of the hardest questions you face. In the great menu of life, how do we choose? Why do so many of us struggle to decide what we want? Or, more importantly, how can it be made easier? If you are stuck at the moment, feeling at a bit of

The benefit of hindsight is a beautiful thing but do we fully utilise our learned experience to write our future? If we knew then what we know now, would we have done it differently? Writing letters to our past and future selves teaches us from our own experience (which is the best kind) and helps

Let’s make like Daniel Bedingfield – We’re gonna get through this. I am invoking that 90’s pop star sensation because it’s going round my head like mad right now.  The UK is going into another Lockdown. Not all Lockdowns are created equal, or consistent, but Lockdown is what we face. There is also the small

Having just re-financed my beloved car, I received a contract entitled Demands & Needs. My immediate response was that I might re-purpose it for my own use if I get asked out on a date. It then got me thinking about a wider purpose and relevance. Getting better at setting expectations for ourselves or for any

If you subscribe to my weekly newsletter, I recently wrote about acknowledging our own behaviour rather than judging it in order to bring about effective change. How can we un-learn self-judgement and why is it important? I wanted to shed some more light on that idea with some practical steps to put it into practice. Quick

Practice gratitude. It will make you happier. This is not self-improvement baloney, it’s scientific fact. Just like your body, you can train your brain to default to happy. I started practicing because I was in a bad space and I wanted to feel better. Simple.   Protection instinct  Typically, our minds naturally fall to a