Every now and then I read something that makes me smile and feel good. Doesn't happen that often, so I'm going to share an article I've just read. Its by Kathryn Martyn and entitled Sexy People Have This: Do You? I've taken one of her subtitles as my...

A couple of years ago Priscilla Palmer started a Personal Development list, with the idea of linking in every site that people thought  worthy of being featured. Being on that list was a great help to me in getting this blog off the...

Earlier this week I read a blog post Building Self Esteem by personal development blogger Alex Shalman.  I've followed Alex for a while, taking part in his happiness project about 18 months ago. Alex has just started dental school – good...

Its somewhat ironic when a newspaper writes at length about how we have become obsessed by risks, and fear is a "constant companion". With the headline "Scared to death? The REAL worry is today's culture of fear" I'm sure the Daily Mail wouldn't...

We all get negative automatic thoughts. Its how we deal with them that affects our feelings and mood, and what we perceive to be our self esteem. If we can look rationally at a situation and effectively challenge negative thoughts (or problem solve...