I was standing behind a couple at a busy hotel reception recently. The husband asked his wife: ‘What time shall I book the taxi for?’ The woman, struggling with various bags and cradling a mobile phone in her shoulder, whilst conversing with the receptionist, spectacularly lost her temper at this question. She told him [...]

Ever felt like your mind is running away with you? That your head is spinning with thoughts of disaster? Here are typical things we say to ourselves (Yes, we all do it!) ‘You stupid idiot! You’ve done it wrong, now everyone will laugh.’ ‘I can’t do that.’ ‘Why did I ever [...]

Our thinking and perspective on life has a huge impact on our experience of it and whether we judge ourselves fortunate or not.
It’s easy in such times to allow our focus to be short term and negative. But now is the time to be especially aware of all our gifts and accomplishments. At the end [...]

When life is just too busy and stressful it is easy to feel overwhelmed and put too much of ourselves into our work. We then feel bitter or overly disappointed when things don’t go as expected. It’s then that we need a way to get back to our core self and transcend the [...]

I remember many years ago being very de-motivated and stressed thanks to a young, inexperienced but over confident and bullying manager. Her style engendered an environment of conflict and doubt.
It was a terrible time as I was very stressed and de-motivated and yet tasked with achieving very challenging targets. The job market was [...]