You are meant to thrive. Every impulse in nature and the Universe is towards well-being. When we cut ourselves, Nature’s instinct is to do all it can to heal that wound. When environmental disasters like fire, earthquake and tsumami occur, it does not take long for Nature
Read more →The pitfall with so many recent attempts to have us live into our potential – even the Law of Attraction, which I’m a big believer in – is that there can often be a misunderstanding that all we have to do is have a big dream and
Read more →The house is in reasonable shape, the washing done, children have been picked up from school, fed and homeworked. Had a lovely lunch out with a friend for her birthday. Met some awesome new people. Sometimes happiness simply comes from things going according to plan and smoothly!
Read more →Stunning! We live in a magnificent world… This video was shown at the TED conference in 2011, with scenes from “Wings of Life”, a film about the threat to essential pollinators that produce over a third of the food we eat. The seductive love dance between flowers
Read more →The Daily Telegraph reported¹ that keeping expectations low may be the key to happiness – according to researchers at University College London. “It is often said that you will be happier if your expectations are lower,” said lead author, Dr Robb Rutledge. “We find that there is some
Read more →The mainstay of my program, Future Self Now, and indeed all Law of Attraction thinking is the idea of feeling yourself in your Now as the best self that you fundamentally know you are. Some know this as ‘Fake it til you make it’. Although this is still
Read more →Greetings Happy Experimenters! Thought you might like to see this great article about exuberance – well worth a read: The 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings, by Kate Bratskeir. And if you want to know what the ’16 habits’ are in a nutshell, here they are. (Except there’s
Read more →OK, so I’ve now discovered a fail-safe way of waking up happy. All we’ve got to do is to emulate my niece’s 3 year old daughter – Ruth (better known as Ruthie). Anna – that’s my niece – went to wake up her son Harry (5 years
Read more →“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence It is often a waking dream of mine to imagine what might be happening around the world
Read more →Today I am 49; next week I will tip into my fifties. It doesn’t worry me – in fact I’m looking forward to my fifties – but it all seems so theoretical. In my heart I’m 36. But I like the idea of my fifties because
Read more →Dear me from 10 years ago, This is your Future Self speaking. You are about 3 months away from making a very big decision. One that will significantly alter your life. How should I describe you? Baffled? Searching? Hopeful yet exasperated? Your children are 2 and 4
Read more →“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddah –
Read more →I’ve just got back from a fabulous time at the Quest Festival in Devon. I had the absolute pleasure of running 4 workshops on Happiness, The Artist’s Way and ‘Future Self Now‘. Everyone who came to my sessions was really up for all the games and exercises
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