121. What is Your Conversational Style?
We all have our favourite way of interacting with people, modifying it a little depending on whether we're talking to friends, family,...
120. The Paradox of Not Enough
Do you find that your efforts at work, home or elsewhere are not always recognised? Are you maddened that some people are constantly in...
137. Which Part of Your Life Needs a Good Tidy?
Another new year, another opportunity to start afresh..... Every now and then you read a book which contains a truth that had never...
118. How Visible Are You?
Do you find that your efforts at work, home or elsewhere are not always recognised? Are you maddened that some people are constantly in...
117. Why is it So Difficult to Accept a Compliment?
'We're eager to get them and so pleased when we do, but then we utterly fumble their receipt.' So say Brett and Kate McKay in their...
116. Guilt - The Eighth Deadly Sin
Apparently, when the deadly sins were first brought together by one Evagrius, a Greek theologian, there were eight. Sadness,...
115. How to Laugh More
A regular requirement in lonely hearts columns is a GSOH, a good sense of humour. But why is humour so important to us, why does it come...
114. Which 'You' Is Running Your Life?
If there's one more common work problem than having trouble with the people there, it's making decisions about what to do next....
113. A Lesson in Duty
I'm just back from a wonderful trip to Myanmar. When I say Myanmar people look at me quizzically, so I have been using its old name,...
112. Finding Your Genius
I'm on holiday this week (in Burma!) so I'm sending you a tip from my archive. My last piece was about having a Big Life. An important...