Tag: coaching
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How to improve your memory
A good memory is a huge asset in every area of life, but how many people struggle to remember simple everyday things? Psychologists universally agree that there’s a great deal we can do to improve. They distinguish between short- and long-term memory. Short-term is the stuff of day to day living and long-term, well, longer.…
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The Power of Suggestion
Suggestions have a big influence over our lives. Tell anyone something convincingly enough and they’ll accept what you say. Tell them over and over again and sooner or later they’ll start to believe you. Unfortunately it’s often the suggestions of others that we allow to control us. For instance: Advertisers use them to persuade us…
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Can We Really Think And Grow Rich?
In the Victorian era success was believed to be about hard work, serious effort, application and persistence, and maybe a slice of privilege or good luck. Later Deepak Chopra and other ‘New Age writers taught that by raising our consciousness we achieve everything while doing nothing, and it doesn’t matter what our background. Somewhere in…
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Bridge and the Game of Life
Having recently taken up the game again after a twenty year gap, it seems to me that in many ways Bridge is an analogy for life. Think about it. People come from North, South, East and West. Everyone must come to the table. There are rules and conventions to be observed. If you don’t, you’ll…
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Are you getting enough?
It is said that we can go five weeks without food, five days without water and five minutes without oxygen. Oxygen we normally take for granted, food we enjoy, but drinking pure water can be an effort for many. Water make up on average two thirds of our body weight – higher for younger people…
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Exercise – Luxury, Pleasure, Necessity?
Oscar Wilde once said that whenever he felt the urge to exercise he would lie down and rest until it went away. Shame! This is a certain recipe for physical ill health, stress and mental deterioration. However, the amount and type of exercise needed to stay healthy are well within the grasp of most people.…
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6 Tips for Inner Peace
Inner peace if destroyed by mental tension. The source of most mental tension is the ego – that part of our psyche which constructs the image of ourselves we like to present to the world. Your ego is your idea of who you should be and who you would like others to think you are.…
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Don’t be a ‘praying beggar’!
Many religious people believe that prayer is about pleading for miracles or flattering a supernatural being into taking pity on them. They assume that some higher power is able and willing to intervene directly in earthly affairs. A more enlightened approach is to reject the notion that prayer is for acquiring things or having our…
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Adventure before dementia
Saw a sign on the back of a camper van today. It read ‘adventure before dementia.’ It made me think. I know people who have played it safe, stuck to the same profession for forty years and even worked in the same building for several decades. Some of them are retired now and living very…
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5 reasons to forgive
Practise forgiveness Judging, blaming, bearing grudges and forgiveness are closely related. Before you need to forgive you must have judged, blamed and felt a measure of fear. Otherwise there would be nothing to forgive. It is not for you to decide whether the recipient deserves to be forgiven is not. Forgiveness is not about condoning…