Self-Sabotage: When Something Goes Wrong cos Something Went Right Does this sound like you? You’ve lost a couple of kilos so you eat a family block of chocolate and a mega-tub of ice-cream. You finally reach the income bracket you always dreamed about but you keep doing dumb things with your money so you’re in […]
How to Be Happy Course – simple strategies which make huge differences
All my life I have been the kind of person who has had a natural tendency to overthink, analyse, and feel deeply. While often this has seemed like a curse in that I have had some heartbreaking lows, I have come to learn that it can also be an incredible gift when directed in the […]
How to be Happy Course is one of the best things I’ve done
Just a short Thankyou to Michelle, for imparting all her valuable knowledge into our Happiness Group. It was a great six weeks, full of lots of laughs and learning and with a terrific bunch of people. All very caring, warm and understanding people. It was only an hour or so every week. But I always […]
How to Overcome Procrastination
Let me start by saying that if we were meant to be super-productive all the time, procrastination wouldn’t be so much fun. I don’t know about you but I’ve developed a whole range of entertaining and amusing things to do when I’m supposed to be doing something else. The something else that’s useful. The something […]
Fundamentals for a Fabulous Life – Generating Good Feelings: The 3:1 Rule
I think most of us at some stage in our lives get a bit of the Eeyore Syndrome. You know the glass is half empty, everything’s gloomy, nothing seems good syndrome. The good news, or the bad news (depending on how far into Eeyore Syndrome you are) is that this is a normal way for […]
You Want to Generate Good Feelings: Stop Being so Nice
Did I read that right? Generating positive feelings is done by NOT being so nice? Mmm. Mmmm. It sure is. I could scare you with a whole bunch of reasons as to why ultra nice people – People Pleasers tend to develop specific sorts of illnesses but I’m not that kind of doctor. I’m more […]
Letting Go of Negative Feelings: Stress Management
Here we are at Fundamental #1: Feeeeeling Good. And we’re still in the letting go phase. This time we’re letting go of stress. Let’s face it – most of us would have a pretty low Stress Management IQ. I mean it’s not exactly on the school curriculum is it? Imagine if it was. Imagine if […]
BONUS: 10 Steps to Taming Your Inner Critic
As Promised your 10 Steps to Taming Your Inner Critic Bonus. The first step in dealing with The Critic is to recognise it for what it is. It is an habitual voice within you, but it’s not you. See if you can hear as the combined voices of all the people in your past that […]
Letting Go of Negative Feelings: Taming the Inner Critic Part 2
We’re still on Fundamental #1: Feeeeeling Good. Jeesh we could take a long time on this Fundamental. I’ll try to speed it up a bit so we get to the good bits sooner. The good news is that today I am going to give a LOT of ways that you can Tame your Inner Critic. […]
10 Simple Steps to Happiness
“Now and then it’s good to pause in the pursuit of happiness and just be happy” – Guillame Apollinaire (French Novelist) So you want to be happy and you try to just let it happen but sometimes it seems too hard to do. What you need are a few simple steps that happy people follow. Firstly, […]
Goal Setting (but not the boring way) Part 2
Have you been caught in this trap? You set goals that you think you should have or that other people would want you to have. And then you can’t work out why you’re not happy when you achieve them? You might have heard that saying “I climbed the ladder to success but it was against […]
Why Vision Boards are NOT Kooky and Why Science says they Create your Success
I’ve always been a bit spiritual – ok a lot spiritual. And a little bit kooky. I was the poster child for the hippy, New Age movement back in the ‘80’s – massaging ‘Essence of Angels’ oil into my hands while singing along to music for Kundalini Yoga. Aaahhh – the good old days. Hang […]
Goal Setting (but not the boring way) Part 1.
Did you know that having goals makes us happy? I love being happy so I like to set myself some goals at the beginning of each year and keep updating them as the year progresses. Not all my goals are serious, work related, financial or hard work (although a few of them are). Some of […]
Brain, Brain Go Away. Come Again When You’re Ready to Play
You know the feeling. You just can’t seem to switch your brain off. No matter what you do. It’s think, think, think, think all day long. And more often than not it’s not very helpful thinking. I mean it’s not like we’re thinking of our last holiday or anything else that would generate good feelings. […]
Letting Go of Negative Feelings: Taming the Inner Critic
Did you know that there are 2 places that the Inner critic lives in our brain? Most other things only have one living area. No wonder it’s so powerful. And no wonder we can’t shut it up. Shutting it up is one of the fundamentals of one of the Five Fundamentals for a Fabulous Life. […]
