My Take On The Adage “You Should Never Meet Your Heroes”
We have seen it written over and over that you should never meet your heroes, and the internet holds so many accounts of people who upon meeting their heroes, found that it was simply not as they had hoped. Some had unrealistic and high expectations that could not be...
Would You Like Me To Offer Hypnotherapy Training or CPD In Your Local Area?
Just look at the main picture above here, a picture of those keen students with great big smiles on their faces while they are learning, eh? Well, that could be you sporting one of those cheesy grins….. Over a decade ago now, I made a big lifestyle decision to move my...
Why Prominent Hypnotherapists and Hypnotherapy Training Schools Need To Know How To Take Criticism
Currently, I am on tenterhooks. I am filled with anxious anticipation and suspense following my recent submission of a paper to a peer reviewed journal. My paper is going to be the first of it’s kind, and so it is a more prestigious journal than the usual hypnosis...
How to Effectively Deal With Criticism
Typically, there are not many people around who sit down in a performance review and say, "Please give me your worst possible criticism about my ability to do my job and don't hold back...it's okay - I can take it." Constructive feedback is preferable and more...
How to Bounce Back From Being Knocked Down
When you read through your social media streams, you are able to find warmth and fuzziness everywhere. It is often lovely. There is an endless stream of motivational quotes, uplifting memes, pictures of cuteness and much more besides. However, as we all know, life is...
My Love of Being a Hypnotherapist – I’m Upping My One-To-One Hypnotherapy Client Hours
Just recently, here on the blog and in my weekly ezine, I have told about some changes that are happening here in my business. My business partner of many years and I are moving in different directions. As he follows his hobbies, loves and starts to enjoy some...
Why I’ve Been Worrying and How To Stop Worry
Should I be worrying? The biggest change to happen in my business for the past 15 years is happening! My business partner of the past decade Keith Watson and I are parting ways. Keith will be 70 on his next Birthday and we always knew the day would come whereby the...
A BIG Pep Talk Blog Entry! A Half-Year Perspective Change Manifesto
“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got” If you look for who to attribute this quote to, it is tough to nail it down exactly, some attribute it to Henry Ford, Jessie Potter, Tony Robbins, Susan Jeffers and even Albert Einstein...
My Thoughts on Manchester, My Existential Melodramatic Angst, and Giving Loving Kindness!
I’ve not written a single comment, or expressed a single public opinion or thought on the events of this week in Manchester. I’ve just not felt qualified to offer anything other than personal emotions and felt that I do not deserve to express public emotions when I...
Are Mindfulness Meditation and Self-Hypnosis The Same or Different?
Mindfulness and self-hypnosis? It is one of those questions I get asked a lot, especially on my science of self-hypnosis seminars - what is the difference between self-hypnosis and mindful meditation? Is there actually any difference between the two? As it happens,...
