How to Look Confident

Do you look confident? If I spotted you are a social gathering, what would your body language say – “Go away, I don’t want to be here” or “Come and meet me”? I’ve read different statistics, but its fair to say over 70% of our communication is transmitted by our body language. So how do […]

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A Confident Move

Over the past ten days I have moved this blog to a new server and upgraded it to the latest version of WordPress. I had become dissatisfied with the service I was getting from my previous “home”, and decided I needed to move. But in the run up to doing so, I found a lot […]

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How to find Happiness

I have read quite a few posts about happyness recently, as another blogger Alex Shalman has a Happiness project going on. Its taken me a while to answer his questions, which are at the end of this post. I have read many times that if you’re aim and energies are directed to finding happiness itself, […]

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Achieving goals with support

Goal setting should be like using a GPS (global positioning system) – you type in a destination, at every junction (or whenever there is uncertainty) you are told which way to go. If only! As I said in Why haven’t you set goals?, just deciding on a destination is difficult enough. Most of us “drive” […]

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Why haven’t you set goals?

In my post Do you have a dream? I admitted that whilst believing goals are necessary for most of my adult life, I’ve been pretty poor at setting and using them. In one of my favourite books, A Touch of Greatness, Frank Tibolt describes goal setting as “the greatest of all success techniques“, but used […]

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Improve Communication

I came across an excellent post on communication, Stop Talking and Start Communicating – which is also a great title. It’s main point is that many people talk “at you, over you and around you – in your general direction” rather than with you. Some of my posts on communication have been slightly apologetic in […]

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Do you believe the answers?

Today I said I’d post the answers to the quiz I set within the Seven Strange Things post. Congratulations to Amy for getting the answers nearly all correct – as I explain below I don’t think you can find an answer to question (i) on the Internet. Here are the questions again:- i) How many […]

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How to Have Great Self Confidence

In a funny sort of way, this blog is an example of gaining confidence in something simply by doing. And now, I've hit 100 posts. My early posts were considerably shorter than what I write now.  But whether or not we believe other people, trusting ourselves should be simpler. Rational, unemotional, self assessment should tell […]

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