In recent months I have written about using the current pandemic situation as a possible opportunity to make a new start, or even to reinvent yourself. In a similar vein, today I am talking about refreshing your life. “Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew...

I'm directly following on from my previous video about the benefit of social interaction and talking about friendship. As adults, we need to make an extra effort to make friends.  Why bother though? What are the benefits of friendship? Friends and friendships offer us...

This week Warner Brothers pictures have released the latest Scooby Doo film entitled Scoob and is available to purchase on Sky Tv here in the UK, and rather poignantly as far as I am concerned, the film covers some of Scooby-Doo's back story.  This video is not just...

According to the Australian sociologist R. W. Connell (the one who originally coined the phrase), the phrase “toxic masculinity” refers to when a man engages in behaviours that are traditionally considered “masculine” that are damaging to those around him, society at...

I wrote in recent weeks about starting afresh in life and considering the current world situation as an opportunity. This also presents an opportunity to reinvent oneself, and that’s what I’m writing about today… “You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” - Steve...

I'm certain that many of us have experienced being knocked down or knocked back in one way or another. Also likely that we've all seen recently that sometimes life can be messy, challenging and even ugly! Sometimes, life can feel like a great big bully that corners us...

It seems to me that conscientiousness is needed more than ever in the world right now. “Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.” -  Herodotus If you were to improve just...

I spend a lot of my time working with people to help them be more positive in a wide number of ways. We all tend to benefit from healthy levels of positivity, of course we do. However..... One thing I have struggled to come to terms with over the years, is that as a...

Most of us use social media of one kind or another these days, and all of us are likely to have been upset, troubled or affected detrimentally in some way as a result of it. Social media is a mouthpiece for so much of the modern world we live in, and it can have a...