As an expat, June has always been a bittersweet month, looking forward to the summer holidays and seeing...
Joyful June
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Anchoring your Attention
The last couple of weeks I have been guilty of procrastination. There have been too many things on my list of...
When anger can be positive
I have spoken before about random acts of kindness and how they can improve your own wellbeing as well as that of the...
So what is coaching anyway?
One of the most common questions I have when I meet people and tell them I am a coach is “What is coaching anyway?”...
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Be kinder to yourself
As we near the end of February I wonder how many of you kept your New Year’s Resolutions successfully. Did you manage to change your habits or did your willpower falter in the face of temptation? A few months ago I wrote about the difficulties in changing habits and the fact that new habits […]
Why do New Year’s Resolutions Fail?
It is early December and my thoughts have already drifted to the New Year as I sit in the sunshine over an early morning coffee. What will I do differently next year? I am not a huge fan of New Year’s resolutions, believing that if you really want to make a change in your life, […]
Getting a bigger slice of happiness
How many of us have heard a friend or relative say something like, “You’re so lucky living out there, it must be wonderful”, with the presumption that the warm weather and the large houses in Dubai must make us miraculously and continuously happy. Comments like this, which create an expectation that we should be happy, […]
Redefining success – it’s the small things that matter
I remember reading once that those who successfully managed to lose unwanted weight shared certain traits, one of these being to weigh themselves daily at around the same time. By keeping their goal in mind they were able to celebrate the continued downward progress towards their ideal weight, spurring them on to continue. Of course, […]
Does being kind increase happiness?
There is an old joke that money can’t make you happy, but it does let you be miserable in more comfort. But is that really true? Although some studies have shown that those who are wealthier are generally more happy than those struggling to make ends meet, it appears that we can become habituated […]