I recently heard a part of a program on Radio 4 when some “scientists” were discussing the structure of addiction. Having done a lot of research, myself, on this subject, it got my attention and I was curious to know what they had discovered. They talked about what happens in the brain to cause people ...

What happens, for you, when you see this word? What do you see in your mind? What do you hear? Perhaps you say something to yourself? And then what do you feel as a result of all of this? What if you did the same thing with something positive? Think of a time when you ...

Since the start of the first Lockdown in March 2020 I have walked from my house to Hampstead Heath which takes about 20 minutes on a good day, being an older person now and with a dodgy knee, I made this my daily exercise routine. I usually walk across the Heath and up into Kenwood ...

Let me say from the outset that I am not a Doctor or statistician but I have done a lot of NLP Training. The heart of NLP is modelling or studying what works and the question to ask to find out is: “How do you do that?” There are almost daily posts on Facebook about ...

Making the Transition with Ease Are you someone with lots of skills and experiences but always seem to be holding yourself back from really succeeding and getting what you want in your life, work or business? I came from a background where money was a stranger to me. It was as if I self sabotaged ...

What benefits do you get from practising (Aikido) Zoom Classes? Well immediately you start to do physical exercise it triggers the release of feel good chemicals in the brain. Excellent performance is state dependant and you are reinforcing what you have been practising in your training before the lockdown. From the learning point  of view ...

Way back in the late 60s, I read Ernest Hemingway’s “Death in the Afternoon”, published in 1932, a masterful description of the Art of Bullfighting. Many, many years later, after years of Aikido Training, I realised that the way the Matador moved when facing the bull and encouraging it to charge, the move they made ...

In 1974 I was living, briefly in Sompting. West Sussex. I grew up there, moved to Brighton for a few years and then to Rochester in Kent where I studied photography for 3 years. One weekend my brother told me about a festival that his friend and local Promoter, Ian Grant was organising on Cissbury ...

Buying software, courses and other internet marketing stuff can be perilous I recently attended a free marketing event in London by a well known media company. They were promoting management of Google, Facebook and Instagram ads This included setting up the accounts so they were ad friendly and the website mobile friendly. The cost of ...