Shit Happens. And sometimes it's your fault. Maybe you stuffed up at work, put your foot in it with a friend, broke someone’s phone or much worse their heart. To err is indeed human and we will all fall flat on our face at some point in the proceedings. The key thing to remember is that regardless of how many stairs you tumble down, it is the next step after your fall that will matter the MORE +
Is She Better Than Me? Overcoming The Curse of Comparison.
I grant you – it is almost impossible not to do. For example - there is this girl at my gym who at the beginning of every class, ties the edge of her t-shirt into a little knot, exposing this tanned strip of abdominal perfection. I’ll be honest - a small piece of me dies every time she does this, because I am pretty sure I will be a knot-free zone for the rest of my foreseeable, MORE +
How To Get Everyone To Like You.
Life will be infinitely easier if most people you meet along the way decide that they like you. There is no question that the choices other people make about us can ultimately determine our success. And, if those people do like us, they will be much more likely to help us, hire us, do business with us, ask us out on a date, give us a discount or have us over for dinner. Charm is not however a MORE +
The Miracles Hiding in Plain Sight.
Two guys I know recently had a baby. Their little man, Findlay, was born almost 4 months early, weighing a minuscule 490 grams. Dad’s wedding ring fit comfortably around his thigh. Fast forward to now - Findlay is 5 months old, fit and well, and the Dad’s level of panic has dialled back down to the mid-level mania that is standard procedure for parents the world over. There is nothing like MORE +
How To Train Your Partner (and other useful relationship advice.)
When it comes to getting what we want, most of us go about it the wrong way. We nag, and we sulk. We complain, and we huff. We ask for help and then say, 'Not like that, here let me.' Or worse still, we re-do whatever it is they just did, because they didn't do it quite the way we like it. Stuff might end up getting done, but NO one ends up any happier. Thankfully all manner of experts, from MORE +
Are We Asking The Wrong Questions? – When Your ‘Best Life’ is Not Even Close.
I read something yesterday that made me seriously reconsider my definition of success. It was written by Jordan B Peterson, who I am intellectually crushing hard on, in his mighty superior tome, '12 Rules For Life - An Antidote to Chaos'. 'People often get basic psychological questions backwards. Why do people take drugs? Not a mystery. It's why they don't take them all the time that's the MORE +
Pack Your Bags – We are going on a Guilt-Trip.
GUILT – The Gift That Keeps on Giving My friend had sex last week. Mid-level, much needed, meaningless sex with a man she will certainly not marry. Instead of pulling up her tights and moving on with her week, she spent the rest of it feeling GUILTY. Because, that's what many of us women, (and some of you men), do. We do sh*t, and then spend way longer feeling guilty about said sh*t than is MORE +
Isn’t It Time We Stopped Blaming Our Parents For Everything?
I blame Freud. It was that Sigmund dude, who famously proposed that our personal development is pretty much determined by events in our early childhood. Your childhood sucked, therefore your life was preordained to continue to suck. I get it - your Dad was mean, your mother wasn’t around much, you were the middle child, they didn’t even think to teach you to code……whatever it was - you are a MORE +
Sunday Night Anxiety – A Survivor’s Guide.
One minute, it’s all ‘Fri-Yay’and life is brimming with the joyous possibility of the weekend ahead. What fun we will have! All that stuff we will get done! All that time to relax! Next minute, it’s 4pm on Sunday, you have the scattered remains of a hangover, at least 2 loads of washing left to do, and are beginning to seriously question if your life has any meaning, purpose or value. If you MORE +
Are We Raising Useless Children?
As parents, we should be in the business of building capable and resilient adults. People, who at some stage, will be able to navigate the stuff of life - earning and managing money, feeding and cleaning themselves, forming friendships and relationships that function pretty peacefully and getting to where they need to be on time, without stuffing up too much along the way. If, in addition to this, MORE +
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