What your performance is built on
Here’s why a stockbroker in New York threw himself off a high-rise in October 1987.
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Here’s why a stockbroker in New York threw himself off a high-rise in October 1987.
The director had to give his annual speech at the summer party — and he was terrified of public speaking.
Martin Erichsen has given an interview about 5 typical signs of poor wellbeing.
The expression comes from Burma, where albino elephants are considered sacred.
Viktor Frankl was a Jewish psychiatrist who was deported during the Second World War.
We put things off for as long as the joy of putting them off outweighs the pain of taking action.
Drop the mental snooze button and accept that doubt and fear are feelings — they’re part of life.
Michael has written to me that he doesn’t feel happy and needs help with his everyday life.
Even though we know the idiot gets their anger from somewhere else, it still hurts.
The question isn’t how you are when you’re good, but how you are when you’re bad.
Have you ever faced a big choice and thought: “But I don’t feel ready at all”?
All development is like pushing a car. At the start it takes four people’s strength.
However high you sit on your growth curve, you’ll always run into wormholes.
So it’s about working out what you truly love — and what you spend your time on.
You’ll never be fully happy until you know why you chase the projects in your life.
Your focus is absolutely decisive for how likely you are to reach your goals.
I’d planned the trip so I’d arrive in good time — but I was soon to learn better.
Problems are only personal, all-encompassing and permanent because we let them be.
If you’ve got 5 tasks in front of you, keep prioritising the one you most feel like doing.