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As we are reassessing our lives some people have been decluttering their home, some even decluttering their mind and now is also a great time to start to declutter something that we use every day - our inbox.

I have a ‘zero inbox’ and I have often share this tool with my groups as a way of managing anxiety and overwhelm.

When you 'but' someone, you put yourself out of rapport with them. When you are out of rapport with them, you can't motivate or inspire them."

What lights you up? What things make you talk excitedly, with animation?
What information or experiences draw you in and give your day meaning?
It is so important in life to pay attention to these things, in ourselves and in other people.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make a life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration; I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal.

Have you ever met someone and just ‘clicked’? You probably felt like old friends and chatted comfortably. That’s probably because they shared your communication preference. Quite literally that means they used words, images, and gestures that you could really relate to. In essence, they spoke your language. And since you spoke theirs, communication flowed easily and effectively.

We can generally find time for the things that are most important to us.

For some people this might be finding time for an exercise session before work. For others it might be finding time to eat a healthy lunch, buy someone a present, do a course or read their child a bedtime story and tuck them into bed. Yet someone else when presented with concepts such as exercising, eating healthily, treating others, improving their mind or spending time with their children might say they really want to do these things, and that they would do them 'if they only had the time'.

Fact: When you have a ‘problem’, you don’t yet have your solution, If you did, you wouldn’t have a problem.

This Christmas, as you are considering how to thank your staff, team, friends and family, consider the five ways people feel appreciated.

I have many clients at the moment who are experiencing that feeling of anxiety about socialising and returning to work after an extended lockdown.

They are feeling anxiety about going back to work as well as socialising.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

I was asked to give a talk to a group of university graduates recently and I got to thinking what it is like in our lives when we are faced with a new future and new possibilities.

So I shared 3 key concepts that I hope will make their way forward in life a little easier…