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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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Human beings are remarkably limited creatures.
We can only handle a small range of physical enviroments. We die if we are too hot, cold, get too little oxygen or too much carbon monoxide. We can’t see X-rays or radio waves or even infrared or ultraviolet. We can’t hear dog whistles or most geological rumbles.
Heck we can’t [...]
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
There is so much misinformation around about the benefits of exercise, particularly in regard to weight loss.
But let’s use a bit of common sense, shall we?
When we get active ie exercise, we use up energy.
If you don’t eat more calories, then this energy has to come from your body stores ie from fat.
So exercising more [...]
Monday, September 15, 2008
Welcome Readers, old and new … it’s Spring in the Southern Hemisphere!
Time for that famous phrase “spring clean” – making sure things are not just tidied away or half-done, but thoroughly cleaned out ready for summer.
Do you want to lose weight, a little or lots?
Do you want to stop feeling guilty, or ‘out of control’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, January 31, 2008
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 [...]