Seven strange things you didn’t want to know

This is my 99th post. The first to include a competition (now over) To date I have sprinkled the odd bit of personal information, trying to avoid being too self indulgent or bore you with irrelevant facts. Recently I was asked to come up with 7 Strange but True Things about Me. So here I […]

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Does your face convey confidence?

Does my photograph on the top right of this page give weight and authority to what I write? Or does it put you off, as I look a bit of a wimp? And if you subscribe by RSS you don’t have to look at me at all! Researchers at Tufts University in Massachusetts have come […]

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Anxiety, Affirmations & Yaro

This is the first time I have written about Yaro Starak, although he is probably someone whose work I have read more than anyone since I started this blog. Yaro writes about blogging – so whilst of interest to me, I have assumed he won’t be of interest to anyone visiting this site. If you […]

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Never judge the day by the weather

This is a quick, extra, post mainly prompted by my making a total hash of trying to get a video clip on yesterdays post. It doesn’t appear to work in Internet Explorer (get Firefox – it’s better anyway!!) and I now realize those getting the RSS feed didn’t get anything, so the post may have […]

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Stop feeling sorry for yourself

Stephen Fry is always entertaining (to me anyway!) and usually gives interesting reflections on life:-  This video has now been withdrawn from YouTube – copyright problems with the BBC! You could have see it on You Tube My recent posts have highlighted the less than perfect starts of people who went on to great success […]

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Does Attitude Count more than Ability?

Last week I received an email announcing the relaunch of Success magazine. As the email was unsolicited – and technically spam – it didn’t seem a particularly auspicious way to relaunch a magazine! But it did lead me to dig out my old copy of Success, which I purchased in Chicago on my only visit […]

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Self Confident men, Shy and Flamboyant

“Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.” So said Sir Edmund Hillary, who reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953. He was the first to reach the highest point on earth, an achievement for which he was forever linked. He died yesterday aged 88. Whilst around 2000 have since reached the summit, […]

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Do you suffer from gluckschmerz?

Thought I’d step away from goals and resolutions and share with you two new words I’ve learned recently. Gluckschmerz, a German word that means feeling unhappy about the good fortune of others; and Schadenfreude – yes, you guessed it – also German, which means feeling pleasure at the suffering of others. Sadly, the English language […]

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