New year, fresh start

  New year, fresh start.  New decade, new you. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’” Alfred Lord Tennyson   What do you need to do for this year to be different to last year? For me, 2019 was an exceptionally...

Your opportunities await you

    “If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.” John B Gough   You’re running and constantly doing.  When you’re done that task, you’ll do another.  You’re probably like many others and have been raised with an...

You matter xx

    “Fuck you, I matter!” said Deirdre to herself. Why couldn’t she say it to Sylvia?  Even after all these years she still didn’t feel safe opening her mouth around her vicious and self-centred sister.  Pretty much every day, as children Sylvia...

What do you want more of?

      What do you want more of?   We humans always want more. It’s as though we’re hard-wired to never be satisfied and to always want more of something.  Many of us travel through life wanting all the time and never feeling as though we’ve received the...

Consistency wins …

      Consistency wins!   “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all”  These are Michelangelo’s wise words after spending four years lying on his back painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.  That...

Use your power to choose

      Choose success in each and every moment   When you believe you can accomplish great things, you give yourself the fuel to get what you want out of your life. Thoughts like: ‘I can’t do it” … ‘I’ll never get it’ … ‘I can’t afford it’ … ‘I’m not...