What’s holding you back – do you have a limiting belief?

Have you ever stopped yourself from doing something? – I guess we all have at some point if we’re honest. Imagine what you could have achieved if you’d gone for it … are there times when you look back and wonder how things might have been had...

‘…Try, Try and Try again’ or is it faster to change your language?

Many of you will be familiar with the famous saying, ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again’. It’s a motto that I used to hear quite frequently. But is this a phrase that is helping you to succeed or is it inadvertently...

Values determine a huge amount – do you know yours?

I saw this picture on Facebook today and it made me smile. So often, people recognise their own behaviours, values and attitudes in others (Carl Jung would argue that you can only recognise in others what you see in yourself – but that’s a story for...

Confidence – changing your posture can help!

Self-confidence or being confident is something many people desire. Confident people inspire confidence in others. Whether it’s quiet confidence or charismatic inspirational confidence (or anything in between), society tends to admire confident people and many...

Exam revision – my #1 tip – you gotta be in the learning state

Yesterday on the radio, I heard University students talking about the fact they were revising for exams and writing essays. It reminded me of an NLP technique called the ‘learning state’. The technique is very simple, and in my mind is something that...

Been out of your comfort zone recently? – reframe it …

You may have heard of comfort zones (a situation where you feel comfortable and confident), but what you may not have heard is how expanding it in one direction has benefits in that it also expands it in others directions – to start to feel more comfortable...