There’s more than one way in which travel contributes to building confidence.  The most obvious is that you have to step outside your normal day to day routines and familiar places and people to travel at all.    Following on from that is the fact that travel opens your eyes to new things.  Your senses [...]

How would you like to feel a little more sure of yourself, or comfortable to speak in front of a crowd, or confident enough to speak up for yourself and disagree if you want to?  A lack of confidence has the ability to affect one in so very many different ways.    Most people worry [...]

Some people are really hard on themselves.  This is fine so long as the outcome is productive. In most cases, however, the effect of being tough on oneself is rather more negative, in that it may lower ones confidence and de-motivate at the same time.  A select few respond well to unduly tough self examination, [...]

I always think of the song “Non Je ne regrette rien”, which Edith Piaf was famous for singing, whenever I visit Paris.  It is of course a French song, and well known, so that easily explains why it popped into my head whilst sitting in the airplane en route to Paris.   Its words prompted [...]

I had a dream the other day which was incredibly vivid and provided great insight into my subconscious emotions.  In it, my friend had sliced the top of her head off and also the back off her head.  I was with her and was trying to put these two slices of her flesh back on.  [...]

Who is the most important person in your life?  Perhaps it is your husband or wife, or maybe your children?  Is that the way your mind was heading?  If so, do you really think that you were right?   YOU should be the most important person in your life.  Unless you love you, you will [...]

Are you fed up with making excuses and putting things off from one day to the next, only to find the same jobs waiting for you yet again in the morning? I heard someone saying the other day that excuses are like golf strokes; the fewer the better.   Being a golfer myself, this analogy [...]

Sex addiction is a hot topic in the news these days.  Tiger is still hitting the headlines in a big way, although this time not because of his prowess upon the golf course.  Residents of Hattiesburg are all aquiver with curiosity over Tiger being in town, residing for a while at a well known clinic [...]

Worrying seems to come naturally to many of us, and we get uptight about the most unlikely things.  How to impress a potential mate is one of those things, with the focus of anxiety ranging from where to go to what to do to fears about an inadequate sexual performance.  “What if I don’t last [...]

I watched the film Avatar for the second time yesterday.  The story is in fact quite a simple one; that of the newcomer invading and trying to take land and possessions from the indigenous people, with no thought for their lives or values.  But there are many deeper complexities woven into the structure of this [...]

Flirting is an important part of communication in every species.  Animals and birds all have their flirting routines, and humans are no different, except in that we tend to think too much!  In thinking too much, we take our eye off the main goal and zone in on our worries and perceived inadequacies instead. Have [...]

Very few people prefer to live a solitary life.  We are naturally inclined to seek a mate and are more comfortable and happier when in a close relationship.  This is reflected in many ways, even to the extent of our health and life expectancy.  People who are in a good close relationship have been shown [...]

We all have different characteristics and our own unique set of general tendencies in how we behave and respond to situations.  Some people can appear aggressive or explosive in nature as they fire off sentences which are phrased like bullets, whilst others would seem to be quiet and withdrawn and totally incapable of saying “boo” [...]

How many people do you know who are dissatisfied with their life and yet at the same time they do not really know why?  They are looking around for something but don’t have a clear idea of what that something is. Similarly, how many people do you know who say their prayers at night, saying [...]

How many people do you know who are really content with their life, happy with their lot, completely satisfied with what they have got?  I frequently find myself looking around in amazement as I perceive so very many people who seem to be unhappy and dissatisfied these days.  Everyone wants more. The 1960′s marked a [...]