My inner belief I’ve built up a core belief inside me over the years. Most of it over the last 12-18 months but nevertheless a belief that allows me to be strong despite any criticisms or ‘flaming arrows’. It is this belief that helps me be strong in the face of adversity or strong when [...]
I start each day drinking coffee looking out over Plymouth’s historic Hoe – All weathers! I’m self-employed where most of my work comes from property management in the student market of Plymouth. I still do quite a bit of work in the IT and web fields (building websites and doing IT work for businessmen involved in [...]
Future Thinking is a phrase I coined years ago. I came up with the phrase when I simply got fed up with people talking ‘positive’. I wanted something more meaningful than positive. ‘Being positive’ is often seen as a lame, limp and shallow phrase. I think this is because people who are positive in the ‘being [...]
Free Anti-virus and Anti-malware programs and other stuff Just thought I’d post up here two or three links to some useful programs that will help keep your PC clear of virus related issues. 1. Make sure that your Windows firewall is active (I’m presuming you are using Windows here, apologies if you are not) 2. [...]
Real Power There is real power in what we say. What we say, has an astonishing and sometimes sad affect on our and others’ lives. By the way, when I talk about the power of what we say, this also includes what we say in writing (such as in text messages, emails, comments and messages [...]
Huh? Come on, think about it! ….I’m waiting…. Thought about it? Here it is again: “The more I know, the less I seem to know” “Jonathan”, I hear you say, “what on earth on you on about?” Well, as you know many of my blog posts are about self improvement, personalities, life, the universe and [...]
Child Of Our Time Child Of Our Time and TV programs like it will often show us interesting ways to analyse our psyche. Coming up with tests and questionnaires which will then show us that we are ‘Extravert’ or ‘Agreeable’ or that women get more stressed than men or some other categorisation of our personality. [...]
I’ll start this short article by quoting someone far more knowledgeable than I. I’m reading a book by Susan Jeffers called Embracing Uncertainty (link). “You’ve entered the cinema and are very excited about seeing this great movie that has been touted by the media for months and months. You are happy that none of your friends [...]
I’m one of those people who ‘knows’ that I should listen to the ‘inner voice’ or as we often call it, our intuition. But (you knew there was a ‘but’ didn’t you?), my thoughts and the decisions I make are often clouded by the emotional side of me. I recently had a fabulous instance of [...]
A brief meaning of ‘Future Thinking’ Future thinking is about thinking outside of our ‘box’. It’s about thinking wider than we currently are, of taking off the blinkers and looking at other options. Future thinking asks open questions like ‘what if..’ as opposed to ‘I can’t…’ Future thinking is about the near future (changing present [...]