TODAY I woke up to find a Virgin hot air Balloon hovering over my neighbours house. Yikes! Well, was I shocked, excited, curious? – all three. But did I really need some help with my anxiety? Now I’ve seen hot air balloons before, and believe me my friends say I’m solely responsible for global warming (steady …read more
Try as I might to stop my sense of self ( self esteem ) being swayed by the ‘slings and arrows of life’, I am still a sucker for praise! Is that so wrong? I worked with a colleague via email for several weeks, coaching him through the sticky crossroads he’d come to at work, and …read more
(…excerpt from forthcoming e-book) THE PROCRASTINATORS I am a Procrastinator. All together now ‘…aarrrgh poor Joy’. If I say it quickly enough it sounds like a virtue, the way we admire Arnie Schwarzenegger for his ‘terminating’ skills. But unfortunately I won’t be offered a movie contract any time soon for strutting my “procrastinating” skills on …read more
5 Reasons to Raid …Your Thought Factory (Part 1 …excerpt from forthcoming e-book “The Thought Catcher”) Your “Thought Factory” can produce over 50,000 thoughts a day We have a “Thought Factory” that works 24 hours, 7 days a week come rain or shine. Yes, it’s extremely productive, but totally unreliable. FACT: your “Thought Factory” can …read more
HAPPINESS …is it over-rated? and in fact does thinking about the very act of becoming happy …make us feel even MORE unhappy? We have a myriad of emotions, and they all have a specific purpose – they feed our mind with helpful information, thoughts, alternative feelings & behaviours that help us live to fight another …read more
I was searching for something deep and meaningful to help me understand my purpose for being on this earth. The frustration was that I just couldn’t figure it out. What was the meaning of life? Why was I here? There was an emptiness. Imagine having a cool drink on a summer’s day, but it never …read more
At what stage of life do you ask that big question “what’s the meaning of life?” Then (as if this wasn’t enough) an even more sinister question lurks in the wings “what’s the point of being here then?” I want to share a part of my private psychological journey from girlhood to womanhood, with a …read more