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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
This website is about taking what I do in my counseling practice and bringing it out to a wider audience.
It also gives me a chance to cover topics that I only rarely get to mention for people who come to see me.
One such topic is self help for your financial future.
If you are going to […]
Last year in September I wrote about a 47-year old professor, Randy Pausch, and his inspirational “Last Lecture” following his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer.
If you want to know why death is such an important part of being human, then view the video on my previous post.
Back then he had wide publicity, from Good Morning America […]
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 […]