Personal Development

3 Steps To Stop People Pushing Your Buttons

3 Steps To Stop People Pushing Your Buttons

It can be challenging to feel in control of your emotional states at times, especially if you think someone is deliberately pushing your buttons. You’ll find practical steps to neutralise the effect in this post, and how you may be inadvertently pushing some else’s buttons.

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Musting: How To Put Off Procrastinating

Musting: How To Put Off Procrastinating

The way you language tasks and goals can have a huge bearing on whether you achieve them — or whether you start procrastinating. Would you believe that changing just one word can make all the difference to you getting things done — and enjoying the the process?

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How To Be Happy: Is it Really This Simple?

How To Be Happy: Is it Really This Simple?

I had a happiness light bulb moment some years ago. I’d found it challenging, at times to figure out to be happy — maybe you have too. But it was a simple decision that changed my whole life. So, while you can try different happiness techniques, you might consider making the same decision.

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Negative Self-Talk: How To Stop It, And Start Feeling Better

Negative Self-Talk: How To Stop It, And Start Feeling Better

Disempowering internal dialogue (aka negative self-talk) has an adverse impact on your wellbeing. If your internal voice has become an internal terrorist, berating you with unwanted and unhelpful chatter, then read on to discover ways to deal with it — and start feeling better.

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How to Create Instant Confidence (Or any other useful state)

How to Create Instant Confidence (Or any other useful state)

Would you like to create instant confidence for an interview or important meeting? Maybe you’d like to stay calm making a presentation? Whatever state you choose you can achieve it in no time using this technique. There’s even an audio so you can experience it first hand.

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How Words Affect Your Health

How Words Affect Your Health

“Sticks and stones may break my bones… but names can never hurt me.” These are the words of the childhood chant I’d use to counter the unkind taunts from kids at school. I didn’t realise at the time how words, whether my own or those of others, could affect my health.

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NLP Eye Accessing: How To Make Out What People Really Think

NLP Eye Accessing: How To Make Out What People Really Think

When people are thinking they tend to move their eyes depending on the ‘type’ of thinking they’re engaged in. They aren’t looking ‘at’ something but accessing different parts of the brain. A person’s eye accessing indicates a sequence of thoughts — that you can track.

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How To Think: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Positive Programming

How To Think: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Positive Programming

Most people don’t learn how to think. I’m not trying to be smart — honestly. We’ve been programmed ‘what’ to think, but not ‘how’ to think. In this interview with Aaron Mooar, we discuss how people think, and what little understanding we have about our thinking processes.

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