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Why bad habits don’t need telling off they need replacing

We lose so much time and energy vilifying our bad habits. We try to stop them, by hitting ourselves with the naughty stick every time we succumb. But it doesn’t work. How many times have you given yourself a good telling off and prom...

What the Blue Zones can teach us

Dan Buettner author of enlightening – ‘Blue Zones’ concludes it is our environment that leads people to live exceptionally, long, healthy and vibrant lives.

The Blue Zone 100-year-old super healthy outliers are not necessarily trying to live healthily, their envi...

Ever since I read Henry Thoreau’s 19th-century masterpiece” Walden”, that describes his retreat into the woods to see if he could still love life at its most basic, I have longed to try this for myself.

Then I stumbled upon minimalism which is a movement about doing more with less. I have been fa...

10 years ago, I read a line which appears on the fourth page of Thoreau’s Walden that hit me like a punch in the stomach.

‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation’ 

This was me.

On the face of it, I had so much. But there was a growing sense of gloom that I could not put my finger on. 

Have we stopped sleepwalking through life?

The great philosopher, Socrates believed most people were sleepwalking through life. 

This is so true today, most people are just turning up to life, never really pausing for long enough question what we’re are doing, or who we are feeling and why. 

When you look back to the great wisdom of the ancients, you will find one common theme. They all promote stillness or their version of quiet time as a route to peace, tranquillity and elite performance. 

The title of Ryan Holidays latest book says it all: “Stillness is the key”

In his book, Holi...

One of the greatest human gifts we have is the power to adapt quickly to uncertainty. But changing behaviours and creating new healthy habits is hard, and we have all struggled in the past. And whether we like it or not change is happening to us. So rather than resisting, now is the time to master...

Life is one massive self-fulling prophecy and the stories we tell about ourselves almost always come true. So let’s tell stories that empower us!

Today I want to help you break the cycle of looking into your past for clues for how to behave in the present. My mission today is to help you start be...