What if negative thinking was good?

Created by Norman Vincent Peale in 1952, positive thinking has been taken on by a growing number of followers. As proof, the escalating number of books on the subject. However, in Dr Laurie Santos’s excellent podcast “The Happiness Lab”, she explains Michael Phelps’s incredible feat, and how the swimmer accomplished his Olympic dream by imagining […]
“Yes you can!”

How to create the motivation to achieve your goals With the recent lockdown, some people have developed bad-habits (pre-dinner drink anyone?), but some took the advantage to establish new positive habits; they started working out more, cooking more, spending more time with the kids, etc… The question is, how to continue those good habits when […]
You are your only limit… How we keep limiting ourselves (and tips to stop doing it)

I absolutely love this quote! In a previous article about “changing our mindset”, I briefly talked about the subject, and I wanted to come back onto it, because it was a real breakthrough in my life. It struck me, that we limit ourselves nearly on the daily. Just the other day, one of my neighbours […]
Change your thoughts and you’ll change your world…

“Change your thoughts and you will change your world” is a quote hanging on my kitchen wall. In the current climate, with the world in lockdown, and so many of my talented colleagues and friends losing their jobs last week at #Tripadvisor, it is truly heartbreaking to imagine how tough it must have been to […]