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For those familiar with personal training you may know that a strength programme is well complemented by a flexibility routine. Some research has shown that stretching can increase muscle mass by over 300%! The same is true for making plans. The more flexibility (room to stretch) your plan has, the stronger it can be. A […]

One of the hardest elements of a plan is that when we begin, it’s largely intangible. It’s hard to commit to something that we can’t see, touch or feel. In our heads, our plans are very real, but further than that – they’re a little hard to engage with. Sometimes, it can be helpful to […]

Success isn’t something that simply lands in our laps. When we look at successful people, we only see their most recent achievements, not the backstory. What we’re actually seeing, is someone who was willing to do what it took to be the best that they could be. Most successful people don’t follow a seven-point plan […]

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi” Integrity in our lives is developed by constantly evaluating: the way we think, the way we speak, and, the way we act. As we are able to bring these into harmony, we develop our authenticity and […]

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln How happy we are in our lives depends on how happy we decide to be. If we decide to continue focusing on what didn’t become or what mistakes shouldn’t have happened, we will struggle to thrive and experience […]

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein” The love you have for your family is what makes you want a better life for them. You think about their happiness and work to create a better future for them on a daily basis. […]

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Living life every day is all about trade-offs. The more we live life, the more opportunities we have to understand which choices give us a minute of anger and frustration, or 60 seconds of joy and happiness. However, this […]

“There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.” – Sir David Attenborough In her most recent novel, Orange Prize-winning author Madeline Miller describes two fictitious gods talking to each other, the older one explaining to the younger one about […]

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Great accomplishments depend not so much on ingenuity as on hard work.” – Thomas Edison We live in a culture that values and encourages innovation. In the information age, it’s all about the nimblest, the boldest and most inventive disruptor. We revere the likes of Steve […]

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.” – Norman Vincent Peale Right now, where you are, imagine a life with absolutely no problems. Initially that sounds amazing, but what if we understood that great achievements in our life are often […]