A new school year beckons. This week fresh faced children, all neat and well-scrubbed, are being dressed in oversized brand-new uniforms to have their pictures taken by proud parents across the country. My own grandson starts sixth-form college tomorrow. Like many...

The Holy Grail of personal development is how to consistently achieve goals and or how to be consistently happy. There is no real consensus on how to do this, but there have been some notable, standout contributions. The best single summation on this topic is from the...

As the saying goes, “Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are fruit, and wisdom is not putting them in fruit salad.” Humans are the smartest animal on the planet. Our standout evolutionary achievement is our big brain. But it is only in the last 500 or so years that...

Entrepreneur, author, and mother of four, Bianca Best recently gave me a copy of her latest book, Big Impact Without Burnout: 8 Energizing Strategies to Stop Struggling and Start Soaring. Through her book she wants to help woman to achieve their full potential without...

This month marks 20 years since I did my very first NLP training. Having spent 18 years before then working as an accountant in the corporate world I was ready for a change. At the start of 2005, as I contemplated that change, coaching was one of the career choices...

‘Fighting fire with fire’ is a commonly used idiom, meaning to use like force against like force. It most likely comes from the practice of creating a fire break to manage a wildfire, by burning fuel in its path, thereby depriving the wildfire of energy. Creating a...

Recently I was asked to review a book a friend of mine had written, which is titled 5,000 years of Monarchy. The book highlights many fascinating facts from across the globe and throughout recorded history. Such as Phillip II of Spain being King of England, after...

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...