Importance of Family & Friends in Making Our Own Luck
One of the main reasons why humans are the dominant mammal species is that we are more socially organised than any other species. The world is a tough place for a lone wolf, lion, or person. Living a life supported by understanding and loving relationships has...
Quick Ways to Boost Your Energy Levels
It’s a new year, and me and Sky presenter Tony Wrighton have got together to record a special podcast looking ahead to 2019, featuring some of the things that energise us most.
Courage and Inspiration
It has just occurred to me how often courage and inspiration are inextricably linked. We know this when we see it, and when our emotions are stirred at a deep reptilian level of our brain. Words are not necessary.
Aesop Therapy – Introduction and the Fox and Grapes
There are many reasons why Aesop’s stories have resonated so strongly with people of all ages and all cultures for at least 2,500 years.
Every story has at least one powerful point which I can use in my work with elite performers. Everybody has the potential to be an elite performer in at least one area of their life, so these videos are well worth checking out.
Learn How to Turbocharge Your Confidence
If you feel frustrated because you don’t seem to achieve what you deserve from life when others do, the chances are that you have forgotten where your confidence is hiding. Watch this episode to learn how to turbocharge your confidence and manifest greater health, wealth, and happiness.
The Most Important 3 Secrets to Attract Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Watch video and read this article to learn about hypnotherapy, knowing what you want out of life and a a psycho-sensory technique to attract health, wealth and happiness into your life.
Bring Life to Your Goal
Make your goal a means to an end and the result of doing other things skillfully along the way. When you reach your goal, do not be surprised when you look back and realize that the real fun was the journey, not the destination.
Confidence is Vital for Getting Lucky
Confidence is a very influential component for getting lucky, and it is therefore the second secret. It should come as no surprise that lucky people have a great amount of confidence. The rest of us look enviously at them and wish that we could be more confident, too....
Infinite Intelligence
Many people throughout the ages have believed in the existence of infinite intelligence, although they might have used different words to describe it. They feel that their best achievements have more to do with outside forces than their own undoubted ability. If this...
The 10,000 Hours Myth
My clients are posting huge international successes, and these do not happen without a lot of effort by both coach and client. These are the two comments that recur time and time again in my discussions about luck to the point where they become worrying. The harder...
The Mystery of Coaching
If it is difficult to identify the best coaching techniques, it is even more difficult to identify a great coach.
How to Choose a Wonderful Goal
This blog continues examining the differences between a congruent goal and the ones that we choose for the wrong reasons. Goals are critical. If you do not know where you are going, then any road will take you there; it will be a long journey, and it may not be a happy one. The shortest route lies in choosing the correct goal.
Visualisation – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Visualisation is a very influential component for getting lucky. Here is another simple technique taken from my book Get Lucky Now that you can practice to see the big picture and attract more luck and success into your life.
Aesop Therapy – The Curious Story of the Gullible Weasel, and the Quick witted Bat
This is the curious story of the gullible weasel, and the quick witted bat. Planning and preparation works well most of the time, but sometimes we need to rip up the rule book and improvise. It might make the difference between life and...Aesop Therapy – The charcoal burner and the fuller was not a match made in heaven
The charcoal burner and the fuller lived in the same village and became friends. However there very different jobs placed a limit on their friendship. Whether this limit was real or imagined is the question? As usual with Aesop there are several different conclusions...Aesop Therapy – The vicious dog not saved by the bell
Sometimes a reward may not be what it seems. A badge of honour can in reality be a badge of dishonour to everybody else. You might say the vicious dog got what he deserved. Or you might feel sorry for him perhaps?Aesop Therapy – The cat that tried to change its spots
There is a popular saying that if something sounds too good to be true it probably is. I prefer to look on the bright side of life, and at least consider anything that looks good. On this occasion the mice were correct, and were not fooled by the cat’s clumsy...Aesop Therapy – The Vicious Cat and the Mice with their Cunning Plan
The mice had suffered enough and they really had to take action. They called an Extraordinary General Meeting to discuss how to deal with the vicious cat. They came up with a cunning plan but unfortunately forgot one critical detail. We often make the same mistake...Blog July 2018 – Birmingham Buses
I went to medical school in Birmingham, and what a wonderful city it was and still is. However the bus service in those days had a mind of its own. A common expression was, “This is just like a Birmingham bus. You wait hours for one, and then six turn up at...
