People love a good moan from time to time. It’s good to get some of that frustration off your chest and out into the open, in fact being a miserable bastard can actually extend your life but that’s a pointless endeavor if everyone wants to punch you in the face. […]
August 26, 2013
The 4 Biggest Lies We Tell Ourselves Every Day
The human ego is a very powerful little tool. It likes to jump in front of us, like some kind of invisible shield to protect our frail minds from the big bad world. One of the methods our ego likes to use is to convince us that there are legitimately […]
July 25, 2013
6 Reasons Why Being Beautiful Sucks
I don’t know about you lot but it seems to me that there are more beautiful people roaming the planet than at any time in history. Of course the standards were a lot lower in the past – you were considered a sexual Goddess in the Stone Age by virtue […]
June 12, 2013
Do You Realise How Lucky You Really Are?
During the summer of 2007 I had a job that was so demanding – I was constantly on the verge of curling up in the foetal position and declaring ‘game over’. It wasn’t that the job wasn’t fun, it was. Or that it was boring, it wasn’t – just that […]
February 22, 2013
Nobody Cares
You wake up in the morning, you look in the mirror, what do you see? Your reflection stares back, an outer shell that betrays what lies behind. You feel so good yet you look so bad. How can this be? You worry that you have aged 5 years overnight. This […]
January 25, 2013
They will see the ‘you’ that they see – Do first impressions really count?
“If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you, then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness, and, therefore, your excellence.” – Unknown We spend way too much time trying to impress other people, and quite often people we really don’t care about anyway. It’s […]
November 14, 2012
How To Shut Down That (negative) Inner Voice
Do you know how to shut down your negative self? That inner voice that tries to belittle and crush your dreams? Whenever we try and do something that challenges us or is outside of our normal comfort zone, it can get a little scary. Initially when we first come up […]
August 17, 2012
Why Self Acceptance Is Key
If you read enough personal development blogs and listen to enough people you will quite often come across some great advice. One such piece of advice that crops up regularly is that you should learn to love yourself. I disagree. You can’t learn to love yourself. It isn’t a skill […]