When you feel yourself getting hot and bothered about what's going on, about how people are behaving, take a few deep breaths and break the otherwise inevitable chain reaction. You'll be the better for it, everyone else will be the better for it, everyone's day will take a turn for the better. And remember, a few deep breaths always bring you back to reality.

Every single person you encounter today could ooze sweetness and light, be the epitome of serenity - unlikely, but let's just pretend for a moment! You could flow through today on a cloud of peace and calm, undisturbed, unperturbed by others' behaviour. The horribly sad fact (you knew one was coming, didn't you!) is that, even if that were possible, even if nobody else tried to mess with your head, you are more than capable of messing with your own head yourself!

The truth is, we don't need normal crazy people to mess up our day - we can do that ourselves - and we're actually very good at it. Left to your own devices, the negative thoughts that preoccupy your deeper mind, will rear their ugly heads and bite you. There are nearly ninety years of research that confirm, in all kinds on wonderful ways, that we that we are more likely to dwell on negative thoughts than positive ones and, if solitarily confined, we'll descend into our own negative madness in a matter of hours.

I know that I joke about lunatics and asylums, I know that I make an effort to entertain by recounting the funny side or normal crazy behaviour. But, truth is, if you were the only person left of planet earth, you'd still need an asylum made just for one! We're all "blessed" with a mind that is ill-equipped for anything other than killing tonight's dinner while it's trying to run away from us on all four legs! We are all "blessed" with an inability to see the reality before our very eyes unless it's stiped orange and black and about to take our heads off. We are all "blessed" with a brain that is designed for a world that doens't even peripherally resemble 21st century "living".

And that's what we're stuck with unless and until we take deliberate, committed, persistent, disciplined daily steps to drag our dysfunctional mind - often kicking and screaming - into the 21st century. In the face of 1.8m years' evolution, this task requires commitment and perseverance. It requires daily discipline even when we feel we're getting nowhere. Because, some morning, you'll wake up and see you and your world properly - I was going to say "with fresh eyes" or "in a new way" but "properly" sums it up.

What could you learn in one day that might change your life? Well, for starters, you'd learn the daily steps you'd need to take to get to the point where you see you - and your world - properly! And that would make everything possible. There is just one place left for The Psychology of Succes in Dublin on May 10th... find out more here...