Every one of us has tough times in our life, so here are some ideas of what you can do when that happens. When things really get tough, go wrong and we feel knocked down by life, (and it happens to absolutely all of us), maybe we’re disappointed, have some failure, self-doubt, lack of self-confidence, whatever it may be – when times get tough, we have two choices, and this is what I want to talk about.

We can either keep focusing on what’s wrong and create more negative momentum, and then all we are doing is we are prolonging our bad experience. Sometimes it can go on so long it can lead to a feeling of being overwhelmed, cause anxiety and even depression. It can be really serious and quite dangerous if you don’t have a way to rectify it.

Here’s my tip for you.

When times get tough it’s an opportunity for you to grow. It is an opportunity for you to get stronger and tougher (more resilient). When times are tough, it is important to have the awareness that you have got negative t...

Why is visualising so much more powerful than using affirmations?

I love affirmations and I think they are great. However, I want to tell you what is really, really the most powerful way to programme your mind to make your mind your magnet to attract into your life what it is that you want.

Right now, as I am talking to you, my brain waves are at a certain frequency (cycles per second), and they are quite fast right now, probably between 20 and 30 and that’s called the Beta brainwave state.  I’m using my five senses in this Beta state; I am looking, I am hearing, I am smelling, tasting and touching. In that state, you have to use a lot of repetition to make impressions on the sub-conscious mind. It’s like banging a piece of wood on a table; you keep banging and banging to make a dent in that table.

If I was to ask you to close your eyes, relax, take a few deep breaths, really become calm and deeply relaxed, your brainwaves would slow down and they would go into what we call the

Have you ever heard this saying before, “Comparison is the thief of joy’?

Joy, my friends, is so important in our lives. It’s what makes our lives fulfilling, happy, rich, memorable and worth living.

If you have children, know children, teach children, have nieces or nephews or grandkids, help them understand this concept from the youngest age, so that they don’t struggle with the feeling of jealousy, envy or feeling inferior. There are three principals which I am going to share on how to overcome this issue of when people compare themselves to others.  Comparison can make us feel diminished, less confident, less valuable, envious or jealous (which are very unhealthy emotions).  The good news is that we can overcome this issue and teach it to our children.

The antidote to ‘Comparison is the thief of joy’:

1. Have a higher awareness. The minute you find yourself comparing and you don’t feel a positive emotion, be aware that you are comparing and making yourself feel worse. So aw

Did you know that self-confidence is probably the single most important ingredient for success?

I’ll give you a quick story to illustrate this: When they hire soccer players at the professional level, they look at things like experience, (how many games they have played and how well they have done), they look at skill, (actual ball skills), and they look at self-confidence, which they can measure with a test.

Do you know which one they hire on? Well interestingly enough, they hire on self–confidence, and I’ll tell you why. Even if you have all the skill in the world (let’s talk about soccer players), ball skills or great experience in playing many, many games, but lack self-confidence, there is no way that you are going to be a better player than someone who is full of self-confidence and just needs to practice to develop more skill and more experience. So when it comes to self-confidence, it’s one of the most important things we need to not only instil in our children, to make t

So many people hear from so many other people, or personal development gurus, that they should visualise daily. Maybe some of you do visualise daily and I’ll say, “Well done, and keep going!”, and maybe some of you don’t visualise daily but you do it from time to time, and then maybe some of you never use the technique at all.

I want to demonstrate something very quickly and I really want you to do this. As you watch the video, stop and pause it, but try this yourself.  Stand in this position and  turn yourself as far as you can and keep moving the arm until you cannot move it any more, and measure where it can’t go any further and what it points to.

Close your eyes, and don’t move your body, and visualise yourself turning right round much further than that and visualise just for a few seconds, “Yes I’ve gone much further”.

Then open your eyes and do the very same thing, and I can guarantee you will go quite a substantial distance further from just one quick five to ten-second v

When you want to achieve a goal, or accomplish something, the very, very ‘First Step’ that is absolutely necessary to be successful, is Desire.

In the wonderful book ‘Think and Grow Rich’, it says, ‘Step One is Desire’.

A little bit of fire makes a little bit of heat. You can’t just have a desire, you have got to have a burning desire – an all-consuming passion for this thing that you want.

Many people say they want something; they want to reduce 5 kilos – they just never do. They want to quit smoking – they continue smoking. The reason that this kind of thing happens is that they do not have a strong enough desire.

Desire is something that you can intentionally fuel yourself because it is actually a mindset that you develop by saying, “I really want this thing!”, and every single day you convince yourself that you want this thing.

There is a wonderful story about all these boats with people on them that came to this island which they wanted to conquer, but on the island, the

A question that I get asked a lot is, “How often should I meditate?”

Well, the answer is, daily.  If you can do it twice or three times a day, that’s even better.

If you are not already meditating I would like to suggest that you adopt meditation, as a practice.  Teach your children to meditate, from the youngest age you can. Free apps like “Smiling Minds” or “Headspace” are a wonderful way to introduce meditation.  Be mindful that you need to lead by example, so be the person that is meditating daily first, because children really learn from what they see and not as much from what they are told to do.

Meditation is one of the most beneficial things that we can do for our entire physical health, for our well-being, and also for us to cope in life. In the Silva Method which is a ‘4 Day Dynamic Meditation’ programme, every exercise is done in meditation. This is important because the one advantage when we are in meditation that our brain waves are slower, and we have better access