Lots of us want to change our lives. It’s a fact. But how many of us get on and to it. We are waiting for that divine inspiration, that flash of genius. We’re wasting our time! The bottom line is that we have to get on and do it. And that includes me. There are […]
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Perfectionism
Perfectionism and not wanting to get things wrong are some of the biggest mental hurdles that we have to jump in order to get started on something. Interestingly, of the people that I know the ones that appear to do best are the ones who just get on and do something. Anything that they need […]
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I typed Not Successful in to Google. I was hoping for something positive. Guess what I got? 20 Reasons Why You Are Still Not Successful 7 Reasons You Won’t Ever Be Successful – Forbes 7 Reasons You’re Not as Successful as You Could Be 13 Reasons You’re Not As Successful As You Should Be by […]
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This is a bit of a story about myself and overcoming the fear of failure. I know it’s not good form to be a therapist and to admit to not being perfect but in my case it’s true. Not being perfect is one of the things that I do very well. I help others daily […]
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Like many other therapists, I do business networking in order to meet new people that I can help. We have to do what they refer to as an elevator talk that says who I am, what I do and all of that stuff. What I’ve found hard is working out what I do and getting […]
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Silence The Inner Critic We all have a part of ourselves that we refer to as the inner critic. It is no problem to some people and a great problem to others. Thoughts pop in to our heads that criticise us and we react accordingly. Sometimes our inner critic pipes up and says something to […]
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Laughter Is The Best Medicine Laughter Is The Best Medicine How many times have you heard someone say that? Well funnily enough there has been a lot of research in to just that. It’s an ongoing thing because we never trust what just feels right. And rightly so, it might feel right to live of […]
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The Iron Man Challenge I know several people who do triatholons, marathons and also those for whom it’s not enough so they are drawn to the iron man challenge. We are in a world beyond the time of dragons. But there are still dragon slayers amongst us. Some of us need these challenges because the physical […]
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I went to the Wickham festival last night. It wasn’t my idea, but I’m not complaining because I got to go with the people that I love being with most. I found something out about myself. I’m not sure I’d call it an epiphany because it’s hard to spell but it was really interesting. I […]
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I’ve read a lot of things about the law of attraction, the secret and all the other versions out there. It’s all compelling, especially the versions where we can create anything that we want for ourselves. I’m not so compelled by the versions that say when bad stuff happened to us that we wanted that […]
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