Don’t allow somebody else’s emotional compass to pull you in a direction that you don’t want to go, a direction that makes you feel uncomfortable and produces negative emotions in you. There is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in many places and a negative...

At a seminar recently there was a great deal of chit-chat about the best ways to visualise goals and objectives. I’m a great day-dreamer. I can go off anytime, anywhere – buses, trains, meetings, or dinners, at the hairdressers – anywhere. For me it’s simply my mind...

I think, by and large, we have lost the ability to listen to our intuition.  Yet, in the English language there are many references – I had a gut feeling, I wish I’d followed by gut, I had a sinking feeling. For me now, that gut feeling means that I need to step back...

You don’t reach Serendib by plotting a course for it.  You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings …. serentipitiously  -  John Barth Serendipity!  I used this word not long ago when I was Rome with a friend.  My friend is not a native...

What is this thing called Passion? While trawling through the Shorter Oxford Dictionary (all 2 volumes of it) recently, I came upon the definition of ‘passion.’ The SOD tells us that it is “a strong enthusiasm for a specified thing; an aim or object pursued with...

Ah-ha moments, Eureka moments, light bulb moments - call them what you will - these are some of the ways we express that incredible moment when, out of the blue, something becomes clear to us, and we feel so delighted that we want to jump in the air with joy. I feel...

For me the first three months of the year and the ones I like least.  I have to search really hard to find something good about them and something to be grateful for.  But I’ve discovered that if I get myself organised and make plans, the winter shortens somehow and I...

Ever since my school days, I’ve been a rebel and a rule breaker. I conform when it is absolutely essential - but the rest of the time, I go my own sweet way. My version of breaking rules isn’t as anarchic as it sounds. I’m merely suggesting that you question more the...

The  Oxford English Dictionary defines talent in the following way:  “A thing for which one has a natural ability.” So simple - we all have natural abilities in some form or other.   Maybe you make a wonderful chocolate cake, the person next door has a garden from...