Take Responsibility For Your Life
Take responsibility of your life – that is the message and the aim of today’s blog entry. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” - Winston Churchill. The word responsible comes from two words: response and able. Seems obvious. Therefore, being responsible for...
The Importance of Reading More: Why You Need To Read More
Reading is important, but you know that already, don’t you? What about the importance of reading more than you actually do currently though? I’m sat here writing this during a break in proceedings while running my advanced hypnotherapy practitioner diploma for...
How to Be Brave
Being brave, my topic today. At first sounds obvious and simple, but is not necessarily always as it first seems. “If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There...
How to Motivate Yourself to Take Action
Today, my aim is to help you to take action. "Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso. It doesn't matter how experienced we are, or at which stage in life's journey we find ourselves, we all need a little help to keep ourselves going on...
How to Stop Emotional Eating
Emotional eating is something many of us do. It becomes a problem if it becomes too much of a regular habit. You’ve had a stressful day, or an emotionally challenging time, or feel drained and tired with your emotions all over the place…. You reach for a chocolate...
Why and How to Stop Taking So Much In Your Life For Granted
Taking things for granted is my topic today, following some major inspiration from a relative of mine recently, let me explain…. “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” Gilbert K. Chesterton. The...
The Science of Silence: Why Silence Is So Good For Your Brain
Silence is my subject today – it is not just good for you, it can do amazing things to your brain. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” - Francis Bacon. A few weeks ago I went to a live music gig at the Bournemouth O2 academy to see a couple of bands that I...
How to Protect Yourself From Other People’s Negativity
“Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.” - Israelmore Ayivor. It has probably happened to you at some point in your...
How To Embrace Impermanence and Why It Is So Important
Embrace impermanence; that is my message today, and I’d like to give you a basic guide on how to embrace impermanence as a way of advancing your enjoyment of life. “It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent...
Why I Recommend You Break the Rules
Break the rules! That’s right, go grab the rulebook by which you are leading your life, tear it in half (as long as it is no thicker than a telephone directory) and cast it out of the window! Today, you have permission to become a rebel in your own life…. “Remember:...
