Trying Too Hard To Achieve Goals
Sometimes I think you can try too hard to improve yourself – whether you’re trying to improve a specific area of your personality, developing a new skill or aiming for a life goal. There comes a point...
View ArticlePutting Things Off: Forgetting the Power of Choice
I have an aversion to bureaucracy and completing administrative tasks that borders on the phobic. If fact just momentarily dwelling on a mental image of the copious volumes of ‘official’ administrative...
View ArticleHaving compassion for your weaknesses
Each day I try to grow as a human being; for me that is one of life's greatest purposes (and challenges). Committed as I am to that purpose I always do my best to see both life and the people I meet...
View ArticleA simple tip for getting things done (even daunting, boring and stressful...
A few weeks ago I wrote about a vicious cycle of procrastination I recently allowed myself to get subconsciously embroiled in; and how my inability to confront what I needed to do head-on left me so...
View ArticleHow to Make Positive Changes to Your Life
Working towards a new goal, any new goal can seem like a daunting prospect. After all, worthwhile goals by definition involve challenge - they take copious amounts of time, determination and energy to...
View ArticleThe Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
More than anything else in life, nothing perplexes us more than the question of purpose. All those metaphysical favourites such as ‘What’s the meaning of life?’ and ‘Why am I here?’ intrigue us,...
View ArticleHave a Nice Day!
I have been increasingly berating myself in many areas of my life over the last couple of weeks. I’ve found myself dragging my feet with work, with exercise, with routine; all of which has created an...
View ArticleWho Needs Goals?
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle I don’t do ‘goals’ well myself, in fact I struggle with most established performance...
View ArticleMonkeys, Raisins and Intrinsic Motivation
I’m not keen on experiments involving animals I have to admit, but one that always tickles me involved some rhesus monkeys, a simple puzzle and some raisins. In 1949, way before the Nintendo DS and Dr...
View ArticleI Don’t Give a F**K About Anything, Me
I had a friend at University called ‘Ed’ – I can’t remember his last name but I remember his philosophy on life very clearly. Ed used to say in a broad Lancashire accent, “I don’t give a f**k about...
View ArticleOvercoming Broken Windows & Bottlenecks
Have you ever read an article, or watched a documentary, about some poor, dysfunctional soul who’s allowed masses of rubbish to pile up inside their house; so much rubbish in fact – accumulated over...
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