‘INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES’ Archives
CHANGING BEHAVIOUR
INTERVIEW: SARAH LEWIS What do you do if someone just does not want to change? That’s a question that often gets asked when it comes to encouraging us all to behave in more environmentally sustainable way. Do you ignore the stubborn ones who refuse to budge or do you bend over backwards trying to find ways to encourage them? Sarah Lewis [...]
ALLOTMENT LIFE
INTERVIEW: PAUL MERRETT Paul Merrett was an allotment novice but his experiences on his plot have inspired a book and a new way of life.
PERFECTIONISM
WHY PERFECTIONISM ISN’T PERFECT By ANNIE LAWLER Do you know the difference between high standards and perfectionism? One is a healthy attention to detail and the other sets you up for a fall. But why would we set ourselves impossible targets where nothing is ever quite good enough? What are we covering up when we insist on [...]
DON’T BE FOOLED BY STRESS
COULD STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES BE DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD? By CHERRY SMITH. Stress is not just emotionally draining – it’s physically damaging too. So if you just treat the emotions and not the physical affects within the body you can actually find you are doing more harm than good. For example, if you reduce the [...]
GRATITUDE
INTERVIEW: JESSICA MCGREGOR JOHNSON Even if you think your life is a pile of doggy poop right now, its important to be grateful for what you do have, that's according to Jessica McGregor Johnson, author of Remembering Perfection.
ANGELS
INTERVIEW: DOREEN VIRTUE We’re surrounded by angels and they are here to help us, that’s according to Doreen Virtue, author of the book “Archangels and Ascended Masters”. So just what are these angelic beings?
AID & CORRUPTION
INTERVIEW: GILES BOLTON Giles Bolton is author of “Poor Story; An Insider Uncovers How Globalisation and Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor”. So when it comes to the billions of pounds the UK spends each year in aid money to developing world countries – how big a problem is corruption?
NEW LIFE IN THE NEW YEAR
COULD BEING GRATEFUL MAKE YOU WEAK? By JO GERAGHTY. “I guess I'm just lucky to have a job at the moment.” This is the most common response that clients give me when I ask how things are going at work. With so many redundancies, people feel grateful to still be in gainful employment and relieved that it's their salary rather [...]
STRESS BUSTING
10 THINGS TO DO IF YOU’RE FEELING STRESSED. By ANNIE LAWLER. Sometimes we don't want to admit to feeling overwhelmed, we feel we should be able to cope with everything life throws at us and that we'd be admitting to a weakness, or our career may be under threat, if we say we’re stressed. For many people though, it’s just [...]
LEARNING A LANGUAGE
INTERVIEW: TONY BUZAN If you’re finding it difficult to learn a new language it might be because you’re doing it back to front. That’s according to Tony Buzan the inventor of Mind Maps and creator of the Collins Language Revolution.
