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Achieving the Right Balance

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Being this Christmas holidays at the moment, it’s probably a good time to talk about balance. I don’t mean trying to stay on our feet with all the excess alcohol, but balancing things like work and play or exercise and rest. Maybe it’s the general excess of food, drink, rest and play at this time [...]

How Do You Deal With Setbacks?

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Let me start with an admission. I’m not brilliant at dealing with setbacks so this article is intended to me more of a discussion than simply me telling you how you should deal with them. That’s why I chose the title, because I’m hoping I can learn something myself from your resulting comments, emails and [...]

Before writing this article I did a did a quick Google search on ‘definition of success‘ to find some formal definitions. They basically fell into two categories which I’ll summarise for you before I continue: 1. The attainment of wealth and fame 2. A favourable outcome from something attempted From these common definitions, which one [...]

When we think about lucky people it’s hard not to think about those who win the lottery, those who inherit large amounts of money and those who are so lucky they’re born into super rich families and don’t even have to wait for an inheritance. If you don’t fall into any of the above categories [...]

The Famous “Never Give Up” Speech On the 29th October 1941 the Prime Minister at the time Winston Churchill visited Harrow School to listen to the traditional songs he had sung there as a youth, as well as to talk to the students (his famous never give up speech). This became one of his most [...]