Arghhhhh! Have you ever been really wound up by something? Found yourself shouting instead of speaking? Felt like your blood was boiling and you might just blow a fuse?
Someone once described a ‘red m...
Imagine walking out on an empty stage in front of an expectant audience, no lines learned, in fact, no script at all.
People have nightmares about this kind of thing. Does the thought make your heart...
This week I have the good fortune of being in the UK as they host the 2012 Olympic games. Not a typical sports fan, but being here one has little choice but to be swept up in the emotion, drama and ex...
Steps to Success: An Attitude of Gratitude
It is “the greatest virtue” described Marcus Cicero (circa 50BC). There are articles which claim it can transform your life, studies that suggest it is an an...
Imagine, you’ve just achieved a personal best then a voice says, ‘someone else did it better …’ Or you’re heading out to a social event and you hear, ‘who cares what you have to say?’ or you’re fillin...
Steps to Success: Take Time to Make Time
When I was little, I was fascinated by a large, circular gold coin my father kept on his desk. It had the word tuit embossed front and back. Around the edge w...
Do you remember how ‘stress’ was a hot topic of the 1980s? Everyone was suffering from it and getting tests. Stress, unfortunately, didn’t disappear with bat-wing sleeves and shoulder pads — quite the...
Steps to Success: The Wealth of Health
There are some things we don’t appreciate until they’re gone. Without conscious attention to it, one of these can be our health. A little bout of the flu last w...
It’s not what you do, sometimes it’s how you do it that makes the difference between success or not.
If something we are doing is not working out for us, we tend to assume that we are bad at it. It co...
Going to a restaurant, isn’t it great? We browse through a menu of all the delights on offer and then get to pick what we want, what suits our tastes and our needs, what’s right for us right now (plus...
