Welcome to my Blog
It’s time to celebrate
Celebration is not just fun and games: it’s a key part of your success strategy, helping you to maintain your motivation and ultimately achieving those big goals
The Practice of Savouring
Can lingering by the flowers a moment longer, or sinking into the aroma of your coffee boost your resilience and help you to recover from stress? Positive Psychologists think so
4 reasons I was grateful for the first frost this year
Positive Psychology is clear about how practices like savouring, curiosity, gratitude and connecting with nature can have a powerful impact on improving mood, creativity, problem solving and generally help us to become thriving, more resilient beings. But how do you tear the brain away from it’s preocupation with problems, deadlines, expectations and rumination? Sometimes you need a spectacular and attention grabbing show: the first day of frost
Going for growth: living, loving and learning through experience
Believing that your abilities and qualities are not set in stone can be a key part of actually enabling those abilities and qualities to grow and lead you to success.
Big Adventures On Average Talent: having a growth mindset super power
How can you have an adventurous life if you are simply average? Mark Gillett, adventure runner, shares some of the highs and lows of his adventures and explains how he even has the audacity to try. Keen on challenge, failure, risk, and problems? If the answer is yes, read on. If it’s no, definitely read on!
Imagine if you were free to choose
We are surrounded by so much information, advice and recommendations from experts, family, society and friends, it can be hard to make genuinely free choices. This post takes a closer look at the ‘facts’ and reminds you that no one really knows what you SHOULD do, so feel free to choose.
Rituals and routines with frills: embedding your new positive habits
Musings about rituals and routines: turning routine from ‘everyday and ordinary’ to ‘strong and beautiful’
Comparing yourself to others: are you leaping with inspiration or twisted with envy?
6 ways to feel more positive about other people's success, and blaze your own path
Humble beginnings
How a little humility can take you a long way towards success, growth, and wellbeing
When bad feelings do good: Part 3, Fear
Many of us have experienced fear ‘holding us back’. It can be a horrible feeling and it would be great to have a magic pill to make it go away. Or would it? It turns out that there is so much more to fear: humans are often drawn to it, and when we learn to walk (perhaps cautiously) alongside it, we can discover and achieve amazing things. Perhpas we should be less afraid of fear.
Accidentally meditating
How I accidentally meditated and fell into a potentially life-changing experience
When bad feelings do good: Part 2, anxiety
Anxiety can feed anxiety and it can quickly become overwhelming. So take a pause, and get to know it a little better. You might discover that it is not quite the demon you think, and having realised this, it might become possible to work with it - or at least tolerate it more.
When bad feelings do good: Part 1, anger
Anger has its place and can even be useful at times. Without acknowledging this, you can slip into defensiveness, inadvertently feeding your anger to the point where it is much less likely to be useful. This post is about having a more nuanced and non-judgemental approach to your anger, making you more able to listen to, harness, direct, manage or diffuse your anger.
Why I'm swapping the moon for the mountains
Holding onto consistency and motivation in an unpredictable world: how a perspective shift (including easing off the focus from the long-term goals) can actually increase productivity, creativity and motivation when a lot of things are outside of your control
Improving my relationship with time
Go from being a ‘slave to time’ to understanding that ‘time is an essential ingredient in mastery’, to maximise your ability to achieve your goals and make progress