Worrying never did anyone any good – a phrase I think from a song. It’s true of course and we tend to make matters seem worse by fretting.
Nagging self doubts. Yet the other day as I was standing at the kitchen sink washing up and turning over a problem in my mind, nagging myself over [...]

Planning makes you more efficient and life more enjoyable. But many of us avoid doing it because we think we don’t have the time!
If working life has become stressful and you’re feeling overwhelmed it’s easy to approach work on autopilot and just jump from one task or project to another. Not unsurprisingly this tends [...]

We can all admit to making mistakes and we can recover from them fairly easily.
However sometimes they make us feel helpless and stuck and like it’s the final straw where one thing after another is going wrong.
When we are in the midst of these bouts of bad luck all we think about is the negative [...]

Are you constantly worrying about things you should be doing and don’t get round to?  Do keep finding reasons to not get on with big tasks, then struggle with that internal nagging voice going on and on about how useless you are?
Wasted Energy and Time. You can waste a lot of time with these kind [...]

Talk to yourself you say - are you mad? Well now that you’ve thought about you are in fact talking to yourself!
Of course we all do it, in the car, on the train, while we’re shopping or at work. These thoughts might be along the lines of what to have for supper, or how [...]