When last did you have a fresh, novel experience that left you feeling inspired and energised? I find visiting creative spaces like art exhibitions and show gardens so enervating, an antidote to our hurried, productivity-driven world. What's good for [...]
Use the power of pause in your favour. Have you noticed that when people are anxious or feeling out of control they often speak faster, and there are fewer pauses between their words? I know when some of my [...]
Choose your hard. Nothing worthwhile in life is easy. And your hard may be completely different to someone else's hard. Success is great as long as it's not a once off thing. What we should be after is sustainable [...]
Are you stuck in the past or the future? Being overly trapped in the past or the future sucks the joy out of the present. Where is your thinking?Do this revealing exercise from my book, Future-proof Yourself (Penguin Random House, [...]
You make 33 000 decisions a day! Have you ever thought or said something like this, "If I have to make one more decision, I think I'm going to...!" According to a recent statistic from the Harvard Business Review, [...]
Love is an action. As we are still in Valentine's month my thought about love this week is about giving without expecting any return. Unconditional giving is a gift of love that keeps on giving in unexpected ways, both [...]
Play a loving game this Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is all about celebrating relationships. Yes, commercially it's about the Romeo and Juliet type of love but, this year, I would like to put a focus on how to love [...]
We often get so caught up in chasing big shifts and improvements that we sometimes forget the impact of small, steady, incremental improvements across a number of actions. The miracle of 1% improvements can shift the dial exponentially in [...]
Reframing is a superpower. I am a firm believer that if you develop the skill of reframing you can turn positives into negatives enabling you to rescript and reauthor your life, in any way you choose. Words have power [...]
No pressure, no diamonds! There is so much truth in this saying and yet the past hundred years of human history have been about increasing human comfort, stress reduction, doing things easier, quicker and faster. Here is what might seem a strange notion to [...]
