When things knock us off balance in life, what if it's actually our panicky over-correction that tips us over, rather than the event itself? Discover how you can better keep your balance as the waves of life head your way.

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Keeping Your Balance

When you don't know something's there, you just can't hear it. Discover something worth your attention which you might have been missing in the noise of life.

What Can't You Hear?

Failure is typically something we try to avoid and the stress of trying to get stuff right and not make mistakes can be quite exhausting. Listen to this episode to get a new perspective on success and failure.

Failure, Experience and the Game of Life

If you were ever in doubt that thought creates our experience of life, then this extraordinary turn of events in a mediocre tennis match might just change your mind...

Why I played my best tennis in the dark

Do you feel as if you're constantly spinning plates? So many things to do that you can't give your full attention to anything? Maybe it's time to change your act. Have a listen and see if you can catch a glimpse of another, less exhausting way to live.

Change Your Act - Stop Spinning Plates

Inspired by a simple fable, I explore how life without the stress and strain of trying to make things how we want them to be, could actually result in a happier and easier life. Are you more like the sun, or more like the wind?

What if life really could be easier than you think?

When we take things personally, we get into all sorts of trouble, and often they weren't meant that way at all. But what if, even when other people do intend us to take things personally, we STILL don't have to? Every relationship becomes easier when we learn what it means to really not take things personally!

Taking Things Personally

There's so much that's going to be different about Christmas this year. And what if there's also something different to see in the Christmas Story that many of us know so well? There's good news about well-being and peace of mind in this age-old tale. Join me to seek it out.

Something Different about Christmas

Do you ever feel like a victim of circumstances? Helpless in the face of other people's bad behaviour or awful situations? What if you can take ownership of even the bits of your life that look as if they've got nothing to do with you, and get proactive and creative with them? Because it turns out that being a victim is as much a thought-creation as everything else in life...

Are you Owner or Victim?

A sense of urgency feels as if it's telling us that something needs to be done soon. But beware! What if that urgent feeling you've got is actually telling you something different altogether?

Urgency - I've got to sort this out NOW!

When we think our wellbeing is dependent on something else - then we believe we can't experience wellbeing until we achieve that thing. This leads to an exhausting, life-long, never-ending search. What if you just didn't have to do that any more, because wellbeing is something that never leaves you...however lost you may feel?

Have you Outsourced Your Wellbeing?

When our hair isn't the way we want, we might make an effort to create the look we want by straightening it. But what if that's what we're trying to do with life too? Putting enormous efforts into making it the way we think it should be, often with limited success? How much easier would life be if you didn't have to do that any more?

Striving and Straightening Life

Does it seem that if only everyone else would sort out their lives, or behave better, then you'd be able to be happy? Whether it's your kids, your parents, your colleagues or world leaders, there's always someone who seems to need fixing. In this episode I suggest that maybe fixing others isn't your responsibility...

Trying to Fix Everyone Else

Our conventional understanding of stress is that there are events or people that are intrinsically stressful, and the best we can do is to manage that. But what if there's another way of understanding stress as a helpful signal that our state of mind is getting in the way of seeing things clearly. Listen now for a whole new way of thinking about stress.

Stress - Being worked up IS the problem

Can you feel better about life in less than 10 minutes a day? We say YES! This is a mini-podcast (

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