Personal Development

Is Your Current Lifestyle Making You Ill?

Are your daily lifestyle choices setting you up for illness in later life, or even worse are they impacting your life right now? Take our quiz today and find out! 15 Questions, 70 points, what's your health score?

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Don’t Give Up When Life Gets Hard

Don’t Give Up When Life Gets Hard

Every now and again circumstances dictate what direction you need to follow. Well today’s blog posting was not planned, but three events made it clear to me what I needed to write. First there was a comment on my blog where it was said "I’m at the brink of giving up". ...
Manage your ‘self talk’

Manage your ‘self talk’

Much of your thinking involves a combination of mental images and inner chatter which creates your feelings and emotions. By becoming aware of your self talk and beginning to deliberately manage them you will be directly influencing both your feelings and emotions. Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things ...
10 Personal Development Blogs That Inspire Me

10 Personal Development Blogs That Inspire Me

I love writing about healthy lifestyles and personal development. Both are my passions. To be able to contribute to another person’s growth, making a difference to their lives is truly an awesome feeling. I have been fascinated by these subjects long before I became qualified to write and speak about them. ...
A Solution Focused Approach to your Problems

A Solution Focused Approach to your Problems

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate. Ann Landers When a problem takes place in our life we are often troubled and taken aback, left vulnerable and alone, lost without the knowledge and ability to overcome our troubles. Yet ...
Winners Take Action, Losers do Nothing

Winners Take Action, Losers do Nothing

"The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!" Anthony Robbins Am I here to upset you today? Is this a tactic to create loads of comments, all of a negative type I’d expect? Maybe, I’m bringing my physical fitness trainer skills to personal development coaching. Perhaps that is ...
Why am I such a Jerk?

Why am I such a Jerk?

So how great are the questions you ask yourself every day? It is so common for people’s self talk to put themselves down. Why do I keep messing things up? Why can I never keep hold of a job? Why me? Why can’t I ever get a break? If you hear ...
When Life Gets Too Much

When Life Gets Too Much

Have you ever felt life is just passing you by? That no matter what you do, nothing changes and sometimes it all seems too much. How do you deal with life’s obstacles? Do you go with the flow? Are you finding it hard to see the up side to things? Do things seem way too hectic ...
The Rocky Road to Success

The Rocky Road to Success

Some of you may have noticed my blog had problems today. Some how a hacker got in and placed malicious coding into my header. It caused a real nightmare and was sorted after lots of hair pulling, and head scratching. I have to thank Mary, Corinne, and Alejandro whose alertness and ...
When Fear Bites

When Fear Bites

"The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." Franklin D. Roosevelt Everyone has a fear of something. Insects, snakes, heights, flying, going on a first date, speaking in front of crowds, dark rooms, swimming, needles, and ...
How Failure Breeds Success

How Failure Breeds Success

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed". Michael Jordan Everyone fears failure. But breakthroughs depend ...