My work is firmly based in modern cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Blending themes such as neural plasticity, mindfulness and the latest in decision-making research, the mix might best be described as the Psychology of Success... and happiness. Do you want to achieve your goals and objectives... effortlessly?

I often suggest to people that they need to give themselves time and space to figure out what they need to figure out. That could be anything - the solution to a problem, an important business, career or personal decision or simply to seek inspiration. This last one is particularly intriguing.

A few years ago, one of my very best friends - a Berliner living in Valencia in Spain - asked me to translate a quote from Pablo Picasso which went something along the following lines: I never know when inspiration will strike but I do my best to ensure that my mind is always ready.

Since Picasso's day, neuroscience has opened a window on our own minds for us. We now know that we can tune our conscious awareness into the here and now. And a clear and consciously aware mind, in the here and now, will provide us with insights or inspiration that our ordinary thinking minds could never imagine. But you and I need to cultivate that innate ability we all have to listen to our own inner self; not our inner voices - they come from the little bugger who never did anything useful in his life - the guy that tells me "no you can't", my own worst enemy!

Instead, I'm talking about what we might colloquially call my gut instinct - the boss here calls it her feminine intuition! The realm of grand ideas, the stuff of "now why didn't I think of that before?" - the part of my subcortical brain that neuroscience tells me effortlessly makes the right decisions and choice for me... if only I'd let it.

From time to time, you need to think about giving yourself a little space and time out in the fresh air. But, when you need to make big decisions or rechart the course of your career, business or life, Perhaps, however, from time to time, it would be a good idea to give yourself lots and lots of that lovely mind-settling time.

I've a long and, according to my clients, a distinguished track record in enabling people achieve control of their state of mind and, consequently, their lives. Of course, since 1996, psychology (particularly cognitive psychology) and neuroscience have moved on in leaps and bounds... and so has The Psychology of Success - to the point that it is now the state-of-the-art online program that is enabling people all over the world, quite literally, change their lives by changinghow they use their mind. Find out all the details here...

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