Does it really take you that long?

How to change the demands you impose on yourself to preferences that work in your favour.

This episode we look at two aspects of time that can get us into a little bit of trouble: the planning fallacy and the other one…listen to find out what they are and how you can avoid them.

6 tips to help those conversations with difficult people feel more in your control. This podcast was inspired by Mel Robbins podcastwith Jefferson Fisher, "How to handle difficult people and talk back your peace and power". Most of the tips came from there.

Your belief in your own abilities and skills is quite powerful.

We don't know why people choose to behave in a certain way, yet often we are quick to judge their actions. What if we imagined good intentions? How would that impact on how you responded and felt? Today's episode is inspired by Seth Gillihan and William B Irvine's approach to others.

This is for those thoughts that don't respond to logic or indeed the other techniques we've looked at…the What ifs…

Anxiety grabs our attention and at times doesn't let go. Here are two questions to help you prioritise what gets your attention and what doesn't.

This episode we challenge our thoughts and look at ways to make useful predictions that help us to manage our anxiety and respond to it effective.

Here is our first episode on anxiety. Over the next few episodes we are going to dive into this subject, exploring ideas presented in Joel Minden's book "Show your anxiety who's boss". We will look at how we can use these techniques to deal with our anxiety .

Failure and fearing it is natural and happens to us all. This episode is for those of us for whom the fear of failure is getting in the way of us trying things out, pushing ourselves when uncertainty is around.Tip is from Arthur Brooks.