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One of the questions I most ask people who come to me for personal coaching to increase their public speaking skills is this. “Did you warm up before speaking”. And most of them just stare at me as if I am completely mad and don’t have a clue what I am talking about. I then […]

We all know that public speaking is one of the most feared endeavors for many, many people especially when we are not called on to do it very often. There are many ways to combat public speaking nerves but for some reason the very people who are the most scared do the least to get […]

It is an important premise of cognitive psychology that the we get more of whatever we focus on. In fact where we place our awareness has an effect on our lives in a big way. If we choose to focus on pessimistic thinking or negative aspects of our lives then we will only increase these […]

Meditation has become more popular and more acceptable than ever before these days but despite more exposure in the media there still seem to be some mystery to some. In fact many people ask me, when they find out I meditate regularly, why do you do it?. So I decided to make a list of […]

Much has been written and reported about remote viewing on the internet in the last few years some of it accurate and some of it just plain nonsense. I personally trained a s a remote viewer in the United States back in 1996 and because of that I feel I can add some authenticity to […]

The art of journaling is probably one of the most under rated but simple and profound personal development techniques that anyone could ever do. It is the simplicity of the method that is the main reason why people often overlook this powerful tool. The sheer act of writing out all your thoughts, emotions and concerns […]

Many people who want to change unwanted or negative behaviors try to use will power in order to make the behavior vanish. It seems that many of us fight in this way and expect these unwanted feelings to just disappear as a result.
However, never was something more true than the saying what we resist […]

In order to manage our stress and improve our health and gain more inner peace and a sense of control over our lives we must be willing to make a commitment to ourselves to manage our own stress levels because nobody else will monitor then for us. We may have to risk thinking and behaving […]

Stress is now the number one reason behind sickness from work and more than 70% of working adults have experienced stress at work in the past year according to the Gee Publishing Survey of 2006. Whether or not these statistics are true one thing is certain, we cannot expect our employers to provide everything we […]

Why do we so often find it so hard to switch off and relax? What is it that makes us feel tense and twitchy just when we need to sleep or recover from all that hard work and stress? It seems that our own bodies are working against us at times - and in a […]