Tuesday, September 8, 2009
This a quote from a subheading in one of my favorite books of all time, “The Peter Principle“.
But in fact this approach has a long and rich history.
I am just about to head overseas on a 2 month trip with my wife and 3 small kids – and leave my counselling practice unattended for all [...]
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The problem with studying exercise for weight loss is that you can’t really disguise the exercise.
If exercise came in a pill you could do it.
You could get a big group of people and randomly give half the pill with exercise in it, and the other half a dummy, sugar pill that looks, smells, tastes etc [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
One of my favorite lines in hypnosis is the idea that you “know much more than you know you know”… at least unconsciously.
There is so much information in the world that it is impossible to take it all in consciously.
You know a part of it, but what do you know without recognizing it.
As I write [...]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
What the **** does that mean really?
What does it mean to “get over” something?
What about “sort it out”?
And as for “deal with it”, are our lives some variation on Blackjack that we just need the right hand to show up?
It’s one of the questions I pondered when I made the “Self Help Me Over” online [...]
In the world Olympic event for obesity, apparently the US has been dethroned.
Turns out in the “Australia’s Future Fat Bomb” Report as splashed across The Age newspaper that Aussies have put in a gold medal winning performance. This report finds that 26% of Australians are obese (BMI >30 ie significantly overweight) just pipping the US [...]
“There is sound evidence that people who are injured and seek compensation tend to have worse outcomes than people with the same injury who remain outside of compensation settings.”
This is front page of my local Worker’s Compensation Service newsletter (WorkCover SA Newslink Issue 11 – April 2008.)
They are right – except for the word “seek”.
Some [...]
This entire blog is about self help. Weight loss is a key self help area where people often try, and about 80-95% of the time they fail.
But THEY don’t fail. In my opinion the METHODS they are using for weight loss are the failure. They don’t help for most people!
In typing this I am literally [...]
This is the first full book review I have ever done on this blog. I am delighted that it is a review for this book, because “I Can Make You Thin” makes an historic contribution to weight loss and being naturally thin, and also to the entire field of self-help.
For almost 2 years now I [...]
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Have you heard the joke?
When is the time to get empathy from a doctor?
Before they’ve gone to medical school.
Boom. Boom.
Well actually it’s not a joke at all. It’s a researched fact, and not a very funny fact either.
Evidence has been building that shows a steady decline in empathy in doctors as they go through their [...]