How to Overcome a Victim Mentality

How to Overcome a Victim Mentality

“We all have a story. The difference is: do you use the story to empower yourself? Or do you use your story to keep yourself a victim? The question itself empowers you to change your life.” ― Sunny Dawn Johnston Let me start by saying, it is understandable that many...
How to Recognise and Deal with a Sycophant

How to Recognise and Deal with a Sycophant

“Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.” – Richard Steele Sycophancy is flattery that is very obedient, or an indication of...
How to Express Your Feelings in a Healthy Way

How to Express Your Feelings in a Healthy Way

There’s a lot of feeling being expressed in the world currently, and not all of it is being expressed effectively – some of it simply serves to create ill-feeling and negative emotions in others. With feelings running so high, I wanted to write about how to express...
How to Refresh Your Life

How to Refresh Your Life

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...