Escape The Perfectionism Trap
Wanting things done well is healthy. Needing them flawless is not. Here is how to spot the trap and start climbing out of it....
Living Carefree Is A Choice
Feeling light, calm and confident is less a matter of circumstances than of perspective. Some thoughts on how to choose it....
The Blessing Of Higher Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is hard to measure but easy to recognise. Seven things people with a high level do differently....
Build A Photographic Memory
A sharper memory is a set of small habits, not a gift. Eight practical ways to train it, and one note on when a poor memory needs a doctor....
Get Rid Of Immature Habits
Age does not make anyone mature. A handful of deliberate habits does, and each one can start this week....
Four Tells That A Fact Is Not One
Lists of surprising facts arrive every day and almost none of them are ever checked. Four signs that separate a finding from a decoration....
Name The Feeling, Then Give It A Number
Difficulty with a feeling often begins earlier than we think, at the point where it was given the wrong name. Two small steps, and they are smaller than they sound....
Six Ways People Decide, And Yours Is One Of Them
Are you the sort who spends the sunny day, or the sort who puts something by for the wet one? Before improving how you decide, it helps to know which of six patterns you fall into without thinking....
Ambition Beats Talent More Often Than It Should
The old line about quitters and winners is a slogan. Underneath it sits a real claim about what carries a person through the long uninteresting middle of anything worth doing....
How To Tell Thinking From Overthinking
Reflection and rumination feel identical from the inside. One of them finishes with something you are going to do, and that single difference is the whole test....