Your Story

Your Story

Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1960 film Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas as Spartacus and Laurence Olivier as Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus, tells the epic tale of the gladiators who escaped from a school near Capua in 73 BCE, terrifying the Roman people with their...
Pain

Pain

Pain is a mechanism that our nervous system uses to provide us with information. That information is usually about damage being caused to the body. The pain is there to tell us to take actions which allow our bodies to heal, which in turn causes the pain to stop. If...
The Spirit of NLP

The Spirit of NLP

If someone asks, what NLP is I can trot out the usual collection of explanations depending on who is asking, why they seem to be asking and how much time we have. It’s an instruction manual for the mind; it’s about how to think not what to think; NLP stands for Neuro...
Trade Carefully

Trade Carefully

America’s new bold tariff play has, if nothing else, cast a shadow of uncertainty over the world economy. Using tariffs to protect domestic industries is a valid tool in the economic toolbox. By doing so you make imported goods more expensive, thereby offering a...
Attention Please!

Attention Please!

The Sun’s 1986 headline, “Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster”, was one of the most attention-grabbing ever produced by any newspaper. Was it true? Who knows? Who cares? Freddie Starr got plenty of publicity from it. In this Information Age everyone is after your attention....