Archive for the ‘Personal Development’ Category

Soap Operas seem to promote “serious issues”, our media is heavilypuntuated with seriousness… Being seriou seems to be proliferating our existence… Then grows into fear… and what with all this recession scaremongering…. Sheeez!!

This weekend I am running my hypnotherapy training diploma and one of the subjects that I am teaching is “how to be happy.”

Hmmm… It is my way of showing my students how to work therapeutically with a variety of people displaying depressive symptoms and thought it a better title to that section of the day than “dealing with depression” which so many training schools do and never inspired me for the learning ahead….

I must say, on the course, we laugh a great deal. We really do have fun, I insist upon it… Yet I do not think that I ever explain why I find it so important.

I watch comedy every week… Heck, I spend lots of my day working with people diagnosed as being depressed, ill, fed-up, limited in some way etc, etc… I think laughter is a crucial tonic to keep me in my merry place. So while you wade through group emails from your friends today entitled “Friday Funnies” let me ask you a very important question…. (more…)

I can remember many years ago, a friend and I went to a massive Tony Robbins seminar in the US (the seminar being massive… Although Tony is very tall…) and coming away pumped up, with loads of new ways to make ourselves feel great and ensure there was no room at all in our lives for any unwanted feelings or anything negative at all.

A far cry from my teenage years of listening to The Smiths and Joy Division in my dark bedroom, moping about how rubbish I thought conventional life was (I was studying sociology and politics at the time) …

These day, I tend to promote the notion of introducing as much positivity into your life in a variety of ways, you see that, don’t you?

Today however, I wanted to promote negative feelings… “Uh-oh… Here he goes again…” Let me explain… (more…)

This month, it all starts… Yes indeed, you get to enjoy a monthly FREE teleseminar and webcast hosted by myself with lots of special guests. And all you have to do is listen in online! There is not even a phone cost if you don’t want it! Let me tell you all about the exciting stuff that we have coming up… (more…)

This week, my usual time set aside in the morning for personal development has suffered… I keep watching the Kings Of Leon on my sky+ box recorded from their Glastonbury gig… They are so good and such a distraction…

Anyway, this morning, I got back into things and was sat sipping my espresso in the garden (taking away the taste of the freshly juiced shots of wheat grass) and reading some more of the autobiography by Sidney Poitier The Measure Of A Man. He is an extraordinary man.

Today, I simply want to share with you a rather frightening thing that his parents used to do to him as a baby that he believes set him up for much of life’s adversity… (more…)

It may sound like an unusual question “are your friends making you poor?” Yet, for many of us, they are. Let me explain…

I can remember a profound moment in my life… I was about to pack in my business because it was not providing me with a good enough living and I was verging on poverty. As a last chance, I started reading about how to be wealthy from lots and lots of success gurus and millionaires.

I know, I should have done this before I began, heck, I was young and naive.

I listened and read lots of stuff by Brian Tracey and one particular thing stuck out on this particular day that changed my life in soooo many ways… (more…)