Have you noticed that today there is a lot of gloom and doom in the world? If the doomsayers had it their way, we would all be thoroughly miserable, down and out, and licking our wounds. Today more than ever you and I need to keep things in perspective and continue to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
