How to find the courage to face anything
Do you have the courage to live life to the full? Have you ever found yourself in a situation where the answer seems impossible to find? People often ask me how one can find courage in a situation where the mind is full of fear and doubt. It doesn’t matter [...]
Do you have the X Factor?
The prize is Being, Doing and Having it all The price is Unconditional Love You may call it freedom, joy, financial security, being in charge of your life, and a whole host of other descriptions, including love. In emotional intelligence, the word Peace represents the highest form of emotional energy [...]
Pass me the popcorn
So we keep looking for the answer but it isn't there. So we look harder, staring at the empty filing cabinet, willing the answer to appear. Then we beat ourselves up in the hope that the answer will appear. But the cabinet is still empty. So we look harder and [...]
Dealing with the loss of people, pets, jobs……….
Death seems to be a theme at the moment; I have spoken to five people in the last 2-3 weeks who have all lost a loved one: father, mother, brother and sister. Grief is the emotional level that is stirred up when we lose someone we care about. And it [...]
Garlic shown to reduce Emotional Intelligence
Woman: Eeugh! You stink of garlic Man: that’s usually what happens when you eat pieces of garlic Woman: (looking shocked) you ate it? You’re not supposed to eat it. You pick it out and leave it. Man: why did you put it in then? Woman: for the flavour Man: Oh, [...]
Your success and the role of mentors
I’ve just had the most amazing call with my business mentor, Simon Chaplin (www.SocksUpSimon.com) – but then every call with him is like that at some level. I don’t know about you, but now that the Olympics and my holidays are over, I’ve been feeling a little bit lost: directionless, [...]
Congratulations, it’s your Jubilee!
So it’s the Jubilee celebrations in the UK this weekend. The nation staged one of its biggest displays of royal pomp and ceremony, and as with other such events in the past, it was all carried out with great precision. I looked up the word Jubilee and its meaning and [...]
How to Control Your Weather
It's a glorious day! The temperature is 22 centigrade and I'm sitting in my garden writing this. Summer has finally arrived for most of us. I spent this morning with Vinay Parmar, my friend and co-conspirator in creating a great life. We sat outside a Costa, plotted [...]
The Power of a Decision
Today, I was asked the question, ‘does it really work?’ in relation to a strategy I use in my business to attract the right kinds of clients for me. This led me to think about achieving results. We usually start out with the best of intentions when we ‘decide’ to [...]
Selfless Contribution
Back home after an amazing two and a half days on the crew team for Joanna Martin's Presentation Secrets seminars. It was a powerful learning environment, seeing things from the 'other' side and I've brought back loads of ideas to implement into my own events. They were long days (7am - 9pm) for [...]
Do you catastrophise?
These last few days have been ‘odd’ for me. I realised that I was grieving, but couldn’t think of why I was doing that. There had been no deaths in my circle of friends and family and yet, there was a sense of loss in me. It took a while [...]
What does it take to become an overnight success?
We all strive for success and have many disappointments along the way. Sometime the disappointment is so strong that we give up and turn away from our dream. When we first start out on this journey of becoming a success – whatever success means to you – it is tempting [...]
How to enjoy getting soaked
It's raining this morning, raining hard. The traffic is slow and there are lots of 'incidents' along the roads. It has taken me 45 minutes to travel just 7 miles, a journey which usually takes 15 minutes. I arrived and parked and on the way into the hotel, [...]
How to carry on when there is no end in sight
We have emotional peaks and emotional troughs. It is a natural part of living that we experience these highs and lows. I don't know about you but I have often found myself to be consumed by the feelings I experience during the lows of life. So much so that nothing else [...]
What Fabrice Muamba can teach you about loss
This last 2 weeks saw the outpouring of Grief in two very different contexts. The first involved an unexplained coach crash in a road tunnel in the Swiss Alps; twenty eight people died, with twenty two of them being children returning home from a school trip. This obviously caused huge pain and [...]
Skinny, Rich and Happy
"If information alone changed people's lives, everybody would be skinny, rich and happy!" Les Brown It’s true isn’t it, and we all know it. So why do you constantly seek more information in order to become successful at something? There is nothing wrong with information per se; it’s just not [...]