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5 Self Limiting Beliefs That Are Paralysing Your Business

Did you know that 80-90% of all small businesses fail in the first year? Sometimes it can be due to physical challenges like location, financial problems, poor marketing, people issues and other factors. However you may be surprised to hear that the overwhelming majority of these failures are due to self limiting beliefs. Henry Ford said “whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you are right”. Our self limiting beliefs are often a result of social conditioning and can be conscious [...]

Fear of Success – 5 Tips To Beat It

Imagine this scenario, Mary has been running a successful small business for 5 years. She met Joel who has a business in a similar field. He has the same ideals and passion and is really interested in working with Mary to take their businesses to the next level. After a really positive meeting with Mary he asked her to let him know if she's interested in working together by the following Friday. Mary always hoped for an opportunity like this, she believes that her knowledge, skills, experience and the [...]

2 Simple Tips To Long Lasting Love

It’s that time of the year again where there is a touch of love in the air. Valentines day, although now so commercialised I wonder how many of us still look for some token that we are loved. That someone cares enough to send a card, give us flowers or take us to dinner. It seemed timely that I write something on love so I went looking for a definition. Not an easy feat in fact it was really hard to find a definition that [...]

Scientists Find The Key To Happiness

I have a poster in my bedroom which says: Happiness Live Much Laugh Often Love Well But is it really that simple. How easy is it to be happy and what causes happiness? As I started looking into this I came across some research by a Dr Robb Rutledge that I feel covers part of what happiness may be all about. He developed this mathematical formula: What this means is that happiness depends on your expectations. More on the happiness equation here Dr. Robb Rutledge who is a Senior Research [...]

6 Ways To Build A Morning Routine That Will Change Your Life

After a couple of weeks off without any kind of routine in sight I must say I was actually looking forward to going to back to work, to again have some structure in place. Although there are 24 hours in every day we know that not every hour is created equal. If you have a purpose in mind or a idea of what you want to achieve then your chances of meeting your goals increase significantly if you have a structured approach to it. There are [...]

How Do You Have Fun, Create Balance And Find Purpose Again?

Whenever I see a client who is stuck, who lacks purpose and drive or life feels like a drag I often introduce them to the Life Wheel. Although one of the best ways of helping a client like this is by using Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy to understand the cause the Life Wheel is a great exercise and tool for helping them create more balance and success in their life. It provides awareness, clarity and understanding and this enables them to see which areas they need to work on. So as we move closer [...]

Guilt Free Eating

How would you like to get through this festive season eating what you like but without feeling guilty? What if you could step on to the scales on the 5th January and you are the same weight you were on the 5th December? Well you can, welcome to the hunger scale. At this time of the year we often tend to ignore the signal that tells us we have had enough to eat and often find ourselves eating to the stage where we feel stuffed or nauseous. It's so [...]

Leave Stress Behind This Christmas

The festive season is upon us again, time to celebrate with family and friends. Maybe Christmas is a tradition or a religious time for you. Whatever it is we often find ourselves feeling overloaded, overwhelmed and by the time Christmas day is upon us our stress levels are through the roof. So what if this year you could get through the next four weeks feeling great and with your well being at an all time high. If you could Leave Stress Behind This Christmas, would you? First I wanted [...]

Random Acts Of Kindness

As we move towards Christmas we tend to get caught up in our own lives and sometimes the stress and pressure that many of us experience at this time of year means we fail to notice that someone may need our help. I read an article recently that listed the top 10 random acts of kindness that people would most like to receive. The number 1 answer was getting a hand written note in the mail. That may surprise many of the younger generation (under [...]

Think Yourself Healthy – Placebo Effect

I came across an article recently in Essays.co.uk that got me thinking. When we think about hypnosis and how it works I believe that all the answers are inside your head. My role as a Hypnotherapist is to guide and coach you to where you need to go to find the answers. Client centred hypnotherapy is all about dealing with what comes up and changing direction if necessary to help you get the very best outcome. This essay particularly caught my attention as it talks about the power of the brain [...]