Over the years there has been a trend of self development bloggers and Life Coaches writing letters of advice and encouragement to younger versions of  themselves. As I talked about in this post on ‘awesome blessings’, we often don’t know at the time what is best for us. Therefore, knowing that things aren’t as bad […]

One of the requests I get a lot from Life Coaching clients is to help them rekindle their enthusiasm and motivation for something that was at some point in their lives important to them. Sometimes it will be a job that maybe they once loved and now they, if not loathe it, then they are certainly […]

You Stepped Into The Gap? You have about 1/3rd of one second to decide how you want to react to any given situation. That doesn’t sound like a long time at all. In fact many people don’t even know that gap exists. They think the negative comment, the dark glare or the waving of one […]

I started to play ‘Words With Friends‘ about 4 years ago, but really got into it when a good friend from the UK started playing soon after. I have no idea how many games we’ve played but it’s many hundreds over the years. Things can often get highly abusive and extremely childish in the chat […]

I receive an e-mail when anybody comments on one of my YouTube videos and this morning I woke up to see I had offended somebody with my video, ‘How To Be Miserable’ If you haven’t seen the video it’s very tongue-in-cheek look at the multitude of ways some people come up with to feel dissatisfied […]

This may comer as a shock, but self development is all about developing yourself to be the best person you can be. Biting people in front of millions of people worldwide, as the dentally challenged Luis Suarez did this week,  is not good for your self development.  It also has dubious dental benefits as flossing […]

I must confess that I love sharing self development information that either challenges conventional thinking, or just flat out destroys it. I guess it’s the rebel in me! I’m sure that some of what you’re about to read you may already know, but I’m equally sure there may be some things that either you didn’t, […]

I really, really wanted the job. It wasn’t just for the 6 figure salary either, it was because I wanted to make the jump into working in IT sales because it was an industry that fascinated me. The first interview with the sales manager went like a dream. They were interviewing about 20 people at […]