For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age.
The answer won’t surprise you.
Life Secrets: Relationships, Money, Health
March 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
If you knew there were simple steps to becoming successful in the areas of life that are important to you wouldn’t you want to know what those steps were?
Within every person that comes for help I am looking for ways in which I can help them discover their strengths. Powerful parts of themselves they have hidden without knowing.
I believe there is a key to everyones inner strength something that will create the desire within them to take action and to claim the life that will equal fulfillment for them.
We all have strengths and yet months or years of battling with life, careers, relationships, children and even ourselves can wear us down. [Read more...]
Enough is Enough!
June 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Could today be the day when you say, Enough Is Enough! That day happened to me. I was sat in a marketing job, bored of trying to help companies sell stuff to people who were really not interested in buying them.
As I day dreamed of a different life, my thoughts usually went to those people who really make a difference in society people like firefighters, nurses, surgeons, soldiers and police officers. For me they are wonderful they really do make an amazing difference and most are so under appreciated. [Read more...]
Learn how to listen to those you love?
February 27, 2012 By 1 Comment
Statistically a great many of people come for help because their lines of effective communication have broken down. They become almost stuck in the same old patterns of communication going round in circles…
It’s critical to understand your partners’ message when they speak, because if you don’t understand them, what can happen is you could misunderstand their message to you.
This can change your behaviours and that could change your future.
So the first step is to never assume you know what they mean, if they complain to you because the way you have taken their message is wrong, the chances are they are right, after all they knew their intent and motivation to communicate to you. [Read more...]
Is it right to expect what you can’t give?
February 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For example: I remember a man complaining that his partner was not respectful in the way she treated him and spoke to him. For him to feel respected he had to feel loved. This means love was more important to him than respect.
We now know love is an important value to him, so unless he felt important he wouldn’t give his love to her as a punishment. He didn’t want to reward her behaviour.
Of course this scared her and so she became more anxious resulting in her communicating her fear which is translated by him as not being respectful and unloving. [Read more...]
