IT’S ALL RELATIVE…
Some recent research shows that if we think we have less time to do things, we get stuck in and enjoy ourselves more! One group of US school pupils were asked to think about their graduation day being a long time off, while the others were asked to think of it ...
5 Key Secrets to Making Marriage Last
Joining your life with another person's, until death do you part, is perhaps the biggest decision you can take. But once the vows have been sworn, the cake has been cut, and the honeymoon is over, what are the secrets of a lasting marriage? I want to thank ...
Are You Spoiling Your Kids?
Raising kids can be the most rewarding experience you'll ever have. It can also be your most frustrating. Children are eager learners, but because their brains are still developing they learn in ways we don't often think about. Seemingly small matters like eye contact or physical movement can be powerful ...
The hidden influence of social networks
Nichola Christakis looks at what is a relationship, what is social networking, and how we are influencing the lives of people we may not even know. He explores how the large-scale, face-to-face social networks in which we are embedded affect our lives, and what we can do to take advantage ...
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Harvard University. During her commencement ceremony she told guests, "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better." Her entire ...
Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
There are few non-fiction books that are considered so valuable, so thought provoking and so engaging that they become true classics. What we have here is one of those and I have been ‘lucky’ enough to have read the book and listened to the audio (two different ...
Misfit Entrepreneurs
Imagine Walt Disney at the age of nineteen. His uncle asks him what he plans to do with his life, and he pulls out a drawing of a mouse and says, "I think this has a lot of potential." Or Springsteen. In a concert he once told the story of how ...
10 Ways to Make Others Shine
Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at MIT says, “Success has a much greater influence on the brain than failure.” Ned Hallowell comments in Shine: While of course mistakes need to be acknowledged and, one hopes, learned from, it may be more likely, from a purely neurological point of view, ...
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