You hear about a new training course that will develop your skills.

Do you sign up? Why?

Psychologists have found that our goals can be categorized into four main types:

Mastery Approach
Performance Approach
Mastery Avoidance
Performance Avoidance

Mastery goals are those in which we want to master or become competent in something. Performance goals are those

Why do you work?

Ok it may be an obvious question. The first answer that sprang to mind was probably financial.

But there are many ways to make money and you have chosen one specific way. So why do you do the work you do? Why do you do it on the

Failure can be good for you. This is not easy to read if a relationship has just ended or your business has just collapsed. And of course, it would be better if these things had not happened. But failure, from time to time, is inevitable and, depending on how we

Emotionally resilient people tend to think differently to those who are more vulnerable. In particular, they respond differently to failure.

Imagine that big sale you were on the point of closing falls through at the last minute. How do you feel? – Bad – maybe even terrible. That’s understandable. You put

In the last blog we met Joe, a heavy smoker who has just reached the 4th stage of change in trying to quit (see link here).

Joe has moved through the stages of Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation and now he’s at Action. This is the stage at which he has actively quit

“Present you, meet future you: a healthier, wealthier, happier, smarter version of you”.

Sound familiar?

We spend a lot of time thinking about the future and about our future selves. More often than not, we envision our future selves as a better version of our current selves because of some change that