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Play To Your Strengths
“Find out what you love to do and do that for a living”. Someone said this to me many years ago in America. ” What? But that’s cheating”, I thought to myself. Surely work can’t be fun? Isn’t that just self-indulgent?” All that guilt. Being paid for doing what you love? Then I realised that …
Read MoreEmotionally Hijacked!
Single woman contemplates her current state and recalls the fact that her first husband met his third wife in the Philosophy Department at Foyles. “Hmmm” she thinks and takes herself off to loiter purposefully in the local branch of Waterstone’s. Engrossed as she was in what the Popular Science shelves had to offer, she failed …
Read MoreMichael Moseley Meets Mind Mood Mastery
Did you see Horizon on BBC2 on July 9th at 9pm? I missed it but got a phone call around 10pm from one of the people taking part in the the course I run, Mind Mood Mastery. “Barbara, Barbara, I’ve just seen this bloke on the tele, who seems to have done your MInd Mood …
Read MoreCreatures Of Habit
It’s funny isn’t it how we always tend to do things the same way. I guess it makes life easier. And yet sometimes we get stuck in a rut and miss out on the opportunity. If you’re in a meeting or group situation do you always sit in the same kind of place? Tucked away …
Read MoreFlow
How much of your day do you feel like you’re in a state of “flow”? Flow is defined as “the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter”. Time flies, we feel invigorated and excited by our work, rather than drained and despondent, and have the feeling …
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