Toward the end of my sales career I was in an almost permanent state of stress and anxiety. My sleep was poor (it’s still not awesome if I’m being honest), my moods all over the place and I spent a large part of my day frustrated, irritated and unhappy. In hindsight it’s easy to see […]

There is a video currently going viral on Facebook showing a teacher psyching her kids up at the start of the school day. I hadn’t heard of it until my wife told me after seeing her interviewed on the morning news. She wanted to know, and quite rightly in my opinion, why all teachers didn’t […]

To say the last few months have been tumultuous is like saying, ‘I don’t want to get in a large bath tub full of starving bull sharks with my testicles dipped in fish guts’ – it’s fairly obvious. And when the big day arrived the Democratic support melted faster than a polar ice cap with tens of […]

I love Donald Trump! Everything I read about him persuades me that he is the man to take this country forward. No, no, no, I meant I love Hillary Clinton! Everything I read about her persuades me thats she is the woman to take this country forward. Oh fuck it, let’s face facts. If a […]

She is going to be so embarrassed. She is going to be so mad at me. She may even insist I take this post down. She is such a private person, whereas I’m really open. It may sound like the two of us are incompatible. We’re not – far from it. Yesterday (Sunday) I had […]

In my last post entitled ‘Would You Flunk The Test?’ I feel like I skated over something that I consider to be absolutely essential for great mental health and general success and happiness. Self esteem. Not putting yourself first can reduce self esteem as we look for external validation in order to decide whether we […]

I was asked to give a talk in a Disney hotel to a group of women who were all married to members of the Young Presidents Organization. Don’t ask me why they were all women and there were apparently no guys married to female members of YPO, because sadly it was a question that only […]