May 16
On average we are each given 4000 Saturdays to live out our best life. With our decisions and actions, each minute and hour we write our life story. When working with people, I am often asked: “What should I be doing with my life?” and “What is my life purpose?” As with most of life’s big …
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May 10
I had a lot of people tell me they really love this quote, so I’ve got it made into a picture. The idea came to me when I was deep into the study of gratitude and how it can fundamentally change our thoughts and lives. I often remind myself that the problems we think we …
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Jan 24
“A life without music would be like living in a world without colour” Mark Desvaux
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Dec 06
If you want to witness how we should live each moment, throw a toddler a balloon…
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Nov 25
Today, you create your world with every thought you have. The colour of your world depends on how you react and then act on each thought. Are you going to paint in black and white or colour? Will it be a sketch or a masterpiece? Will it end up in the bin or hanging on …
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Nov 22
Today is a precious gift. Best to unwrap it and enjoy it as you can’t take it back tomorrow for a refund.
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Oct 31
There’s a simple secret to making your dreams in life come true. Believe in yourself. If you don’t, who will?
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Oct 05
Today I heard about the passing of Steve Jobs. I immediately went back to a video of his Commencement Speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. It’s all the more poignant today with his passing. “You’ve go to do what you love” A life well lived. Enjoy this video:
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Aug 12
I love the randomness of having a two year old toddler in the house. Life is just one big adventure and we get to re-live it with them. Then suddenly we remember that we don’t have to re-live, we just need to start living it again. The world through the eyes of a child is …
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Feb 16
When we marvel at nature, science, technology and history we often forget that we are part of everything we see. Every day we are surrounded by other people, which conditions us to feel “normalâ€. A David Attenborough from outer space would marvel at us more than anything else on this planet. Don’t settle for normality. …
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Feb 02
Lost business for the UK economy today: £1.2 billion Having a snowball fight with your kids:    Priceless I look forward to the day when the media don’t focus on everything a nation loses when everything grinds to a halt due to the white stuff. Today is a day when people will have a well-earned rest. …
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Jan 30
Every day miracles happen all around us. You only start to see them when you choose to believe that your life is not ordinary. There is no such thing as an ordinary life, an average person. To just be born you defied the odds, in a race of six hundred million! Any child needs to …
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Jan 22
Tonight I did a show about Gratitude on BBC Radio. It struck me that during these difficult times gratitude can really turn our attitudes and lives around. Here are my Top 5 Tips you can do every day to foster an attitude of gratitude in your life: 1) Every morning when you wake up, simply …
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Jan 22
We’ve seen what fear can do to our world, the economy and our wellbeing and this week we’ve felt what optimism and hope can create in our hearts. Why would we ever choose the former? We live in a world created by our emotions. Look for the good in everything that happens today.
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Jan 20
Every morning before we start our day we need to ask ourselves the question “What can I do today that will make a difference in the world tomorrow?â€
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Dec 10
We are often told that it’s the simple things in life that bring the most pleasure. There has been a trend for us to make our lives too fast and complicated. Maybe we are now at a new dawn, a dawn of getting back to basics.
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Dec 09
At times of change, especially whilst caught in the eye of a storm, rather than put your energy on the devastation around you, try to focus on the better future ahead after the clean up.
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Oct 27
As a parent I’ve rapidly learnt that we are not here to teach our children but learn from them. This is none more apparent when discovering that children laugh on average 146 times a day, whilst adults laugh just four times. Does this point to the serious business of growing up or us simply taking life too seriously? …
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Oct 24
The financial crisis is one of the most profound teachers of our time. Whether in America, Iceland, the UK, the rest of Europe, Asia or beyond it is showing us that everything in this world is interconnected and we cannot survive without considering each other and pulling together. Boundaries, flags and the “me culture” ultimately …
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Oct 22
The credit crunch could be a good thing. We might start living life at half the speed we currently do, which means we would only be consuming the world twice as fast as we should.
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