Cum grano salis' - it sounds better in Latin! 'With a pinch of salt'... How we pick up our beliefs about Life.  What do we assume to be true?  How lightly can we hold that which we consider

You get what you practice! Unfortunately many of us are living by default and come into our later years having unconsciously practised drinking too much beer and eating too much junk food. And those are

What do you think about the role of stress in your life?  Is it something that is forced on you from outside? Is it the way you think about events rather than the events themselves? There is yet another

In my newsletter I mentioned a business podcast I listen to. I am fortunate in knowing both the people in the example episode from the graphic below. The podcast host is Ankush Jain who is a Three Principles

How to have a life even though you work Is it worth reading this post?  Find out with 3 questions:  Do you work?  Have you got a life other than work?   Would you like

Latest edition of the Psychology of Wellbeing newsletter has just gone out.  In it I discuss Michael Neill’s ideas on building momentum for our projects and goals. It’s free — sign up at

Here are two steps to take to develop your workplace resilience right now Stress, we know so much about it but… One of the confusing things for me about this so called ‘information age’ is that

By way of some background, I have been stumbling away at this Journey since the mid 1970s. Like many of my generation I was entranced by the weekly exploits of Kwai Chang Caine and took up study

Yes, we all know who the toxic people are where we work!Here is a method that is helping stressed employees to deal with toxic people in the workplace.  The context  We live in a fast paced

Goals! and SMART goals, everybody and their dog knows about them. But there is nowhere in these wonderfully well formed goals for ‘not pulling your hair out or getting totally stressed out’.

We are all human.We all get some things right and some things wrong.I have recently been on a training day with my Tai Chi teachers who were talking about the founder of the style. He was brilliant at

Resilience training is unusual in that it is not seeking to solve a particular problem, or stop a particular problem from arising; rather it is seeking to inoculate against the ill effects of problems

There are oodles of different ways to  'do' self hypnosis.  Here is a simple and easy method that will get you going. I t's not intended to be comprehensive or exhaustive, but enough to

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Just a really short article with a link to a piece by Chriss Voss that illustrates, amongst other things, the real world value of adopting and maintaining a positive mindset. Here is the link: 3 Steps

Chopping wood, sitting in front of the fire Especially at times such as this when the world and its dog are working out how to create, manifest, attract and build the latest set of goals, it can

Goals anyone? It’s that time of year again and anyone who is anyone is publicly reviewing their year and either endorsing goals for the next year, or dismissing them as irrelevant. I have seen a range

Anxiety and depression among UK workers up nearly a third in four years, figures show The Independent This is the title of an article from the UK Independent newspaper. Sadly, in my view, the

The context Back in 1938 Harvard started what has turned into the longest running longitudinal study on adult health and development.  At the time of writing in 2017,only a few of the original

Really?  "We’re all stressed.Stress is part of 21st-century life. It’s part of being an adult. " This quote is from this article. I would say that is seriously misunderstands what stress is. Stress