What to Do If You Are If You Are Stuck With a Problem
This brief guide to help you think through any problems or challenges you face. Six questions to guide you through the side-issues that can stop you seeing the problem clearly.
What to do If You are Feeling Under-Confident
Confident people have days when they feel under-confident and doubt themselves too, but they don't let this stop them. Here's what too do if you are feeling under-confident.
How Writing Can Help Clear Your Mind
Writing serves fulfils many functions. Some can be arduous, others fun. What's often overlooked is how writing can bring benefits to the inner self. It doesn't matter how or when you do it, as long as it is regular and uncluttered by demand or expectation. Writing awakens creativity and many possibilities besides.
How a Personal Ritual Helps with Loss, Change and Growth
Keeping separation and loss alive can be more damaging in the long term than the events themselves. There's merit in the idea that while we should rightly honour the past, we must also be willing to welcome the future. A ritual can do both, simultaneously.
What is Personal Development and Why Make a Plan?
Personal development is about building self-understanding and the life skills which will best prepare you for whatever lies ahead.
New Year Plans – Seven Points to Make Your New Year the Best
Each year at this time I think about what's going to be improved on, changed or abandoned in how I approach my life and my work (same thing, for me). How about you?
Online Learning – Five Great Ways You Win
There's a full world of experts out there and many are eager and enthusiastic to share their passion and understanding of their topic. Online learning is here to stay but some people still don't get it.
Think Like an Optimist – New Possibilities
There are compelling reasons in learning to think like an optimist. An optimistic thinking style is a key factor in wellbeing. These go far beyond the usual simplified ‘glass half full’ ideas or the claims of the positive thinking movement. There are now thousands of studies that attest to the value of optimism at all stages of our lives. From childhood to old age, an optimistic outlook confers all sorts of advantages.
The Seven Traits of Confident People
People who seem to have confidence don't necessarily feel confident all the time, but they know how to keep self-doubt at bay.
How to Build Your Confidence
Are you are waiting until you feel more confident to do whatever it is? This explains the trap of waiting and why you may need to push yourself a little.
