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The Weird BnB
I recently went through my old photos and saw a photo of a key fob I got at the world's strangest Bed and Breakfast. The night before, I had been hired very last minute for a stage show. The company had fully booked out the hotel where I was doing my show. Leaving me with the choice of a handful of BnB's in the immediate area and I
How to avoid impulse buying – part 2
It’s not just your subconscious that has an active role in getting you to buy more things than you initially planned. As you might have guessed, shops also have a vested interest in triggering impulse buying. In fact, there are marketing strategies specifically designed to prey on your subconscious desires and fears. In order to learn how to avoid impulse buying you’ll first need to understand all the
How to avoid impulse buying – part 1
Picture this, you’re back home from the supermarket and the contents of your bag seems to have mysteriously evolved way passed your carefully planned shopping list. I mean, it seemed like a good idea at the time – 20% off this, tasty that, but what are you really going to do with that pack of 30 candy bars? Probably eat a tenth of it and give the rest
8 easy ways to reclaim your free time
It’s Friday evening and you’re looking forward to unwinding after a full week. But between e-mails, and chores and the thousand and one small problems that seem to crop up, your weekend flies away leaving you feeling like you haven’t really accomplished any of the things you really wanted to do. Our minds, which can be our greatest assets can also turn out to be our worst enemy.
8 great tips on how to manage your anxiety
It’s the middle of the night yet you can’t sleep because your brain is busy running a mile a minute with various worrisome scenarios. The more you think about them, the more your problems start to multiply and morph into these dark and tangled masses that tower above you and block all solutions from sight. Everybody has had dealings with anxiety at some point or other in their
The Psychology of Dating – 6 Hot Tips
The Psychology of Dating – 6 Hot Tips Most people want to try and find someone that they can spend their free time with and even their life. The problem is most people tend to have more bad dates than positive ones and end up spending two years single and virtually buying shares in their favourite type of ice cream. It just so happens that this
Psychological Interview Tricks – Get that job
Psychological Interview Tricks – Get that job When you go for a job interview it’s a very stressful time, often our true selves cannot shine through because we are too focused on the intense feelings of anxiety. You get into the interview room and you start to talk but that ‘fight or flight’ response has kicked in and you are now either a jabbering train-wreak talking
Confident Speech Tips: Part 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te-hPLAfcAQ Hello and welcome to this, the final part in How to Develop a Confident Speech. Now the biggest thing that you can do for your confidence when you are out delivering a speech is to see someone agree with you or to be completely wrapped in attention, watching you, hanging on every word. It lets you know that what you are saying is making an impact, is
Confident Speech Tips: Part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHwIkjNmy6c Hello and welcome to the fourth in this five part mini series that is guiding you through to giving more confident speeches. Today I am going to tell you about something that is, again, another keystone in giving a confident speech. And it is the one thing that people don’t tend to do when they are giving speeches. They tend to worry about their speech so much
Confident Speech Tips: Part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MquYnRHTXPI Welcome to this third in a five part mini series on how to give and develop a more confident speech. What I am going to tell you today is that it is ok to feel nervous, because that feeling, that chomach... that chomach sturning? That stomach churning feeling inside of us, that puts a fly in the stomach, that is horrible, right? Or is it excitement? You
Confident Speech Tips: Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dS5gEhlsW8 Hello and welcome to this second instalment where I will be guiding you through giving more confident and professional speeches. One of the biggest misconceptions – and I am going to break it here today – about speeches is that they need to be memorized, that they need to be in there only. And it is a great, a great contributor to people feeling unconfident when they
Confident Speech Tips: Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiiAiUh9oBk Welcome to the first in a five-part mini-series that will guide you through some techniques that will not only help you produce a higher quality of speech but will also stop you feeling horrendously nervous and even sick before you give the speech. There are many occasions in our lives where we need to give speeches they could be at weddings, parties or even within academic situations,
Never Forget a Name – Part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7plvoBumVc We’ve finally made it here to the last instalment of this mini-series and boy, how simple has it been so far! A good strong memory for names doesn’t require fancy techniques or a massive shift in our thinking, it just takes the small changes that have been shared in the previous three videos and then this final technique. We must warn you though, that this technique is
Never Forget a Name – Part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcJEv2x39W4 We carry on the fight against poor memory and especially that of forgetting what people are called, even when you’ve only just been told. In the last episode of this mini-series we talked about mentally linking a person you have just met to someone you already know with that name, even fi that person happens to be someone you don’t know personally, such as a celebrity. The
Never Forget a Name – Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePTVm9XyM18 The annoyance of forgetting names will soon be a thing of the past with the second part in this mini-series. In the previous video we took a look at the powerful technique of simply reducing the noise of information present in a first meeting and enabling you to focus on the important information. A simple step, but the simplicity of these techniques ensures that you are going
