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 […]
The big splash last week about Australia being a gold-medal contender in the Obesity Olympics ain’t true.
The official stats from the OECD that came out at the start of 2008 (as pointed out to me by an observant patient of mine) show the US is 1st, Mexico 2nd, UK 3rd and Greece 4th.
Australia was a […]
“Would you like me to give you a formula for… success? It’s quite simply, really. Double your rate of failure… You’re thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all… You can be discouraged by failure — or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all […]
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 […]
One of the things I did when I put this website up, was I did a quick hunt of other websites and blogs that might be of interest to me.
I very quickly stopped hunting!
It was immensely time-wasting, and mostly left me shaking my head with each line I read.
However in that immense haystack I found […]
When people come to me with problems often they think of their problems as “irrational”.
The really interesting part is that their emotional response is always the bit that is irrational.
It doesn’t enter their minds that perhaps the most irrational part of what is going on is that they are they are believing their logical thinking.
Human […]
I really appreciate all the comments I get on this blog. I read them all, and they are often worth your time reading as well.
However some of them are worth putting up as an entire post. Thanks to teqjack for pointing me to a post on the website of ‘World’s most popular blogging anesthesiologist’
that had […]
In my therapy work I have pretty much given up using the word forgiveness.
Not because it is a bad idea - heck no. Forgiveness is a key self help skill for being an effective human being.
It’s just that the people who most need to use forgiveness in their lives, have also been the ones who […]
I think most people who run companies have no idea what is really required for the mental and spiritual well-being of their employees.
Having a J.O.B. (Just Over Broke) takes up a huge chunk of your waking life.
Sure you do it for money, but do you do it for self-actualization?
Many employees at some stage dream about […]