I sometimes wonder at the emails that I get from people! Someone - whose business and financial situation is a disaster - and whose family life is fraught, to say the least - repeatedly asks me how he can break out of the downward spiral - and why such dreadful things are happening to him again and again. Let's deal with the second one first. The bad things that befall us in business and finance are the direct consequence of our own decisions and actions - or lack of more...

The vast majority of people that I meet on my Personal Development Workshops have arrived under an illusion that they need to improve themselves - self improvement is their goal. What they don't understand is that they actually don't know who they really are and, if they did, that there is no need for self improvement, just a need to break the bad habits of an adult lifetime. You are not your behaviour. You are not your personality. Your personality is a more...

The short answer to the question if 'Yes' - if you buy all that crap that the ideal life is about yachts, fast cars, Caribbean sunsets and designer clothes. That's got nothing to do with personal development but that's what all the self-styled personal development experts and lifestyle gurus are peddling because they know that that's what you want to hear. Why? Because it's the normal believe, the conventional wisdom. But normal people are crazy and conventional more...