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Beat Procrastination in 7 days?

I’ve been reading Gretchen Rubin’s brilliant new book ‘Better than Before’ (Two Roads, £16.99) about creating habits, and she says that 40 per cent of our behaviour is repeated almost daily. ‘Habits are the invisible architecture of our lives,’ she says. Great if you are repeating good habits! But what about our bad ones?! Procrastination anyone?! She insists that only ...

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Create your own happiness club

As editor of Psychologies, I’ve joined forces with charity Action for Happiness and we are encouraging our readers to create a ‘happiness club’ once a month in their own homes.  And I’d like to invite the Big Leap tribe too. I started my Happiness Club early to test-drive the process.  Two months on, I love being part of my happiness ...

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What is it that you seek, really?

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” Rumi I’ve just hired a new coach Magdalena Bak-Maier , a coach but also a neuroscientist who has worked with everyone from NASA to the World Economics Forum. I wanted to work with her because she’s about to launch a new book and set of tools to help her clients balance heart/mind interaction. ...

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Want to be happy? Be grateful.

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.” ― Stephen Hawking My boss sent me this video the other day. I loved it. I knew all about the theory and science of why gratitude can not only make you feel better psychologically but physiologically too. (I treated myself to a Daily Greatness ...

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How to not smear sh*t on your face

I’m a massive fan of Pema Chodron, a Buddhist nun. (Her book When Things Fall Apart and her CDs have saved me on many occasion when I find myself sliding off into the black hole of my own neuroses). Meditation is one of the core practices she recommends: “When we sit down to meditate, we can connect with something unconditional – a ...

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