Happy New Year!! Welcome to 2019 - the year of taking control of your life, making better choices to live healthier and happier! We all start the New Year with some sort of belief or false confidence that the welcoming in of a new day will bring magical changes our shitty habits. All well intended, the overzealous commitment to completely overhauling diet, exercise and lifestyle will not happen overnight! Good News is it will happen if you have deep rooted desire, intention a

WHAT does it mean to be positively wired and WHY is it so important? Let’s unpack it shall we? Positively wired to me is essentially practicing positive psychology, reinforcing the positive aspects of self to boost confidence and self-belief. Strengthening these aspects allows us to live our best version in life. This isn’t to say that we should ignore, negate or avoid focus on the in unfavourable or neutral traits we possess but to identify and develop ways to build these al

Motivation "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." by Lou Holtz I often talk about core values and beliefs. These are the basis on which we live our lives. They can be out-dated and not necessarily in service to your current circumstances. Our values and beliefs are core to the motivations of behaviour change and habit formation. Understanding and living these authentically in live with cultivate lo

Last weeks journal touched on the long known idea that suggests we are the top 5 people we spend our time with. It is an interesting concept when you think about it. We unassumingly adopt another persons behaviours as our genetic disposition triggers a primal element within our psyche, that we need to act, feel and behave the same to survive. Whilst this was true for an ancestors in the paleolithic era, the same cannot be said for now. We have developed socially, emotionally

Spring carries with it thoughts of blossoming flowers, longer days and sunshine. Any wonder we are more motivated to change when Nature is so beautiful. We want to emulate what we are surrounded by and this brings to me the notion, that when we are surrounded by like-minded people or even spending time with people that we want to be like, we become like them. It is said that we are the top 5 people we surround ourselves with so if this stands to be true for intellectual devel

We all know the hibernation effect winter has on our bodies and minds. There is a cycle as with all things in life that has an ebb and flow. Winter has been a dark cloud over my mind this year, as with many I speak to, and whether you believe in the synchronicity of the season cycle, we are all ultimately affected. This winter has been the down time that I’ve required to introspectively look at life events and re-evaluate their meaning. Having my mother diagnosed with breast

It is in our psyche, that of our primal nature that we are hard-wired to feel good when connected within a community. Our early ancestors relied on a social network to not only survive but thrive by eating, sleeping, hunting and playing together. Physiologically when we are connected in our network we are delivered with a hit of dopamine, Oxycontin, serotonin and endorphins. These hormones and neurotransmitters have provided, throughout human evolution the reward of feeling g