I’m a big "comparer"… by which I mean, I compare myself to other people. I also compare myself to myself, in the past. And anything else I can find to compare myself to, I often do. The other day, I was interviewing a fellow speaker, who has a rather harrowing life story that they tell

I regularly set myself “unreasonably” difficult challenges. For example, over the next month or so, I want to go out and practice my street clowning — interacting with the public in the street. I am often scared of social interaction. I will avoid talking to shopkeepers when I have a good reason to talk to

previously posted on Blogspot Making New Years Resolutions has fallen out of fashion. In fact its even become popular to make an anti-resolution resolution, by saying “This year I resolve not to make any resolutions”, which has the double advantages of being both confusing and having its assured failure inbuilt, because you have to break the