Personal Growth

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Stuck In Stress Or Advancing In Adversity?

It's hard, if not impossible to learn effectively when stressed. The networks of neurones in our brains have to choose. Do I learn or do...

Helpful, Peaceful, Purposeful, and Energy Efficient?

This morning I spent my time with my research colleagues discussing new approaches to measure the ways in which people habitually think...

Don't Go Global

In the world of business and entrepreneurship going global represents, for many, the ultimate success. Reaching people in the farther...

Your Role in Their Confidence

The importance of a supportive coach, teacher, leader or parent cannot be overstated. Helping a person, be they young or old, develop...

The Power of Opinion

You have, as a human being, this unique ability to have an opinion about things. Your stance on politics blocks or buffers a new leader...

The Up Side of Negative Emotions

We spend so much time pushing uncomfortable emotions away that we often don't realise their potential to help us move forward. Today's...

Say Yes to Everything?

When I started my PhD studies I remember arriving at the university and seeing the corridor walls decorated with motivational quotes from...

Build the "Business as Usual" Belief.

After almost three years in Switzerland, why do I, sometimes, still feel like I just moved here? After almost five years of learning to...

New Year, New Beginnings

I'm sitting at Chalet Koru as I write today. Steve and I bought this chalet together quite soon after I moved to Switzerland. It truly...