Why Getting Your Blog Hacked Is Not the End of the World
Have you ever had something happen to you life that’s really thrown you off balance? Only to later find that in the big scheme of things it really didn’t matter? You may not think so at the time, but most challenges we face are never a life or death situation. I had...
How to Conquer Temptation and Fulfill Your Dreams
This is a guest post from Bamboo Forest That slice of pizza you’re craving when you’re on a diet isn’t temptation - it’s distraction. Change your perception of the word “temptation” to what it really is, which is distraction. Isn’t fulfilling your goal and the outcome...
9 Powerful Strategies To Boost Your Self-Esteem Right Now!
Have you ever been really, really low in your life? Last Monday in the UK was considered by some media "experts" to be the unhappiest day of the year for many people. With Christmas festivities a fading memory, credit card bills piling up and dark, cold evenings,...
How To Embrace Loneliness and Blossom
Looking at the picture above, and the post title, you may think that I've chosen some kind of paradox. How can you embrace something that is so unwanted? Who wants to be lonely? Firstly, let me point out that everyone will experience a period of loneliness in their...
2 Key Things to Drum About in the New Year
Happy New Year everyone! As we gently get into the New Year, I wish you all the best for this New Year - may this year bring all you wish and much more. I wish you all a very peaceful, abundant and blissful New Year. May you have health, wealth and peace in your life....
One Thing You Must Learn from Scrooge On This Christmas Day
As the world gets ready to celebrate Christmas Day, what will be your one abiding lesson this year? It has been a tough year for so many people around the world. There has been so much doom and gloom around us - but only if you choose to focus on that. As you get...
How To Keep Your Sanity During these Christmas Holidays
So with Christmas almost upon us, are you already quite stressed out? Or are you chilled out and taking everything in your stride? As for me, as the holidays approach, I can feel the stress of additional chores bubbling up. Shopping, decorating, cooking, wrapping...
Why Would You Ever Want to Grow Up Anyway?
Are you a “grown up” or are you still childlike? This summer I was in Kensington Gardens in London and saw a Peter Pan statue, which is quite famous. On the inscription it describes the statue as “the boy who refused to grow up.” This made me smile as I was once...
Just Imagine a Peaceful World – It’s Easy if You Try
30 years ago today, the world lost John Lennon. But his legacy and thoughts live on through his music and his words. What better way to remember his legacy and mark his quest for a more peaceful world than to listen once again to his most famous solo song - Imagine....
A Book Straight from My Father’s Heart to You
It's three years today since I suddenly lost my father. Yes, that's him on the left. Handsome dude. And he was my father. And I am his son, believe it or not. I feel I got his intelligence genes, not the ones for looks:-) As I write these words, it was around this...