We’re living in an age where everything seems to demand instant action. Markets swing wildly. Politicians chase headlines instead of stability. Businesses optimise for quarterly earnings rather than decade-long legacies. Even our phones train us to crave dopamine hits in seconds, not months. It’s no wonder that most people—without even realising it—start making their financial decisions in the same reactive, short-term way. In this post I’m espousing long-term thinking as an alternative.
Continue reading “Long-Term Thinking in a Short-Term Economy”All the Time in the World: Escaping the Urge to Rush
I’ve been passionate about personal development for a long time now. Once you get that first rush of ‘Yes I can achieve anything I set my mind to,’ you often overload yourself with goals, projects and things to do. Pretty soon you then realise that to really achieve anything worthwhile you need to focus.
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Part One in the series: The Smart Start Guide to Wealth in a Digital Age
A few weeks ago, I was at the bar of a local pub. We’d just taken our dogs on a 10k walk in the heat, and everyone needed refreshments. My wife and the dogs were in the beer garden enjoying a well-earned rest, while I was ordering some refreshments.
Continue reading “Why the Future of Wealth is Changing Fast”Reclaim Your Mind: How to Break Free from Fear Based Media
Are you being triggered by fear based media, whether it’s scrolling social media, reading the news, watching YouTube or watching tv?
I’ve written quite a lot about the negative aspects of the modern media world and uncontrolled phone usage. In this post I will talk about how specifically this programming is triggering you and give you a step-by-step guide to free yourself from it.
Continue reading “Reclaim Your Mind: How to Break Free from Fear Based Media”Is Shadow Work Useful for Personal Growth?
I’ve been passionate about personal growth for around 30 years now. I’ve studied NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and am a certified life coach and hypnotherapist. I am always open to looking at new technologies. Lately I’ve come across what is known as shadow work.
Shadow work sounded esoteric and I’m always a sucker for something new and secretive, so I’ve decided to investigate it.
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I don’t want to pick sides
I love my football team; I’ve supported them since I was seven. This means I go to watch them play live and on the TV. I am unashamedly biased when it comes to my team. I’m the same with my family and friends because I care about them. I also care about some local issues, which others may find trivial. That’s fine because I’m sure I won’t care about some of the things other people care about. I don’t want to pick sides on every single issue of the day.
Confidence
How do you get confidence or how do you become confident. I’ve seen and read many things that treat the cure for lack of confidence like a miracle pill. Do the recommended mind exercises and you will become confident. Fake it till you make it.
Using an Intention Statement to Achieve Your Goals
Every achievement starts with an intention. I can’t think of many good things I’ve achieved by accident. It therefore follows that if we want to achieve something we should set an intention. This is all part of goal settings and is well known, but how do we make sure that we follow through on our goals? Keeping our goals front and centre can help and for this I’ve been using an Intention Statement for a while now. Here I explain what an intention statement is and how you can use one to help you achieve your goals.
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Be Happy but not Content
In one of my first sales jobs, the company wisely knew the importance of sales training and coaching. One such development programme the company set up was a ‘Sales Buddy’ system. For one day per quarter, the younger, greener sales reps would be accompanied in the field by an older more experienced sales professional. I can still remember my ‘sales buddy’ and our trips out. I also still remember and practise much of his sage advice. In particular, I remember him telling me the epitaph ‘be happy but not content.’
Who controls the world?
Here’s my take on who controls the world. Hint – it’s not who you think.
They
Have you heard what They are planning next? They want to control you and make you subservient. They keep you from achieving your dreams and they don’t care about you.
You read and hear things like this in online chatrooms, social media or in bars. Idle chat maybe, but just who are They? Who does control the world?
Let’s have a look at some of the contenders for who They are.

