Although its Sunday lunchtime, when many families gather together, I’m sitting alone in our house as my wife and two younger daughters are all working and our eldest is 275 miles away! I will return to this on Wednesday with a look at habits and routines.
I don’t usually like intrusive noise in my environment, […]
Entries from June 2008
Overcoming obstacles
September 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Tags: goal setting · self esteem · thinking
Confidence in your environment
September 26th, 2007 · 5 Comments
I recently joined a new forum - Personal Development Partners - which, although in its infancy, does seem to have the makings of a very useful place to share ideas. Do check it out (its free, although you can pay for more enhanced features). This post was inspired by a thread I contributed […]
Tags: appearance · confidence exercises · thinking
Desiderata
September 23rd, 2007 · 11 Comments
One of the delightful things about blogging is how interacting with others running similar sites can be both stimulating and informative. I’ve mentioned before about Priscilla Palmer’s personal development list.
But I was initially irritated when Bob Clubbs posted a comment on my Affirmation Software post (as it wasn’t relevant to what I had written!) […]
Tags: self esteem
Who do you trust?
September 19th, 2007 · Add Comments
Over the past week in the UK there has been a major financial new story. A leading bank, Northern Rock, asked the Bank of England for a loan, to help resolve a “cash flow problem”. Since then, there have been constant queues outside the banks branches as anxious savers have been withdrawing their […]
Tags: anxiety & fears · self talk · thinking
Challenging beliefs
September 16th, 2007 · Add Comments
I’ve come across an interesting twist on thinking and how what we believe affects the way we feel. And to reiterate - how we feel and how we view ourselves is at the heart of our self confidence.
In the UK there is a popular TV show called “Who do you think you are?”, […]
Tags: thinking
Affirmation software
September 12th, 2007 · 7 Comments
Following on from my post on affirmations, there is no denying that for most people the act of reciting positive affirmations is quite strange. Like with other forms of goal setting, you write them out with the best of intention – but never get around to looking at them on a regular basis. More importantly, […]
Tags: goal setting · reviews


