Prosperity: what is your definition? Many people assume the word ‘prosperity’ relates solely to finances; I question this. One of the most important people in my life was my grandfather. He was a London taxi driver, had very little money, lived in council flats all his life, yet he considered himself to be the richest

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The simple, alarming economic facts that Governments don’t tell you With all the millions of words written and spoken about the 2015 Budget, as is the case with previous years, the simple and essential facts are hardly mentioned. We barely get the tip of the iceberg. Summary “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings]

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Feeling self-confident and at your best Have you ever wished you could feel at your best, confident, calm or energised, almost at the click of your fingers? With an NLP technique called ‘anchoring’, you can.OverviewPut simply, an ‘anchor’ is a stimulus that leads to a response. For example, when you hear the first few notes

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Is Public Speaking really a ‘fate worse than death’? Allegedly, consultants did a survey in the USA asking successful business people, “what scares you most?” Second on the list was “dying”.  So what was top?  The answer: “speaking in front of large groups of people!” Can NLP help with presentation nerves? And which NLP techniques could

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Why most people have probably already broken their New Years’ resolutions If you’ve ever wondered why so many people break their New Years’ Resolutions, and what you could do instead to achieve the kind of results you want in your life, then read on! According to The Guardian, 78% of the Resolutions fail (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/28/new-years-resolutions-doomed-failure). Based

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A shooting star – lessons from an elite athlete A shooting star – lessons from an elite athlete Those of you who were closely following the Commonwealth Games will have spotted that 60 year-old Michael Gault won a bronze in the 10 metre Air Pistol event. This was his 18th medal at the Commonwealths, which makes him

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