Category: Life

  • Is It Google Or Me That Is Going Mad?

    Frustrating time filling in Google registration form for gmail – where was the good user experience we are always being lectured about by Google?

  • Irritated By My Shampoo

    I wonder if I am becoming a grumpy old man.  Must ask Babs – hmmm maybe not! I find myself increasingly getting very irritated about tiny things.  This morning it was my shampoo – or more accurately my shampoo bottle that got me going. I have been using the same anti this, and anti that, […]

  • Pause For Thought – Keep Short Accounts

    I posted this message on my business blog today but I thought it had a place here as well. There is a slot on BBC Radio 2 in the morning called ‘Pause For Thought’ and I hope that today’s posting will encourage you to pause for thought about your business and what it is there […]

  • Do You Think Of Self-Esteem As A Game Or A Sport?

    Our self-esteem can be affected by the way we look at and treat our lives, either as a game to be enjoyed or as a sport to be won.  The way we play life is a mirror in which the reflection is either a happy and contented one or one of determination to win at […]

  • Are You Hypnotising Yourself And Your Family Deeper Into Debt And Depression?

    You may be prolonging the agony of the recession without even realising it by the way you communicate with yourself and family.  You may be hypnotising your family into deeper financial and mental depression with no way of stopping the downward spiral. Despite what the politicians may tell us about the recession being over, for […]

  • Ever Sent Yourself A Valentines Card?

    I did once. I was feeling a bit sorry for myself and thought people would be impressed. It didn’t actually do me any good and I didn’t feel any better. But it did reveal a few things. Firstly, how young men don’t care how much they lie about the receipt of Valentine’s cards. Secondly, how […]

  • Is Golf A Mental Game

    So — Is Golf A Mental Game? Of course there are various possible approaches to this (no pun intended, golfers!). Is it a game of mind over matter? Are you nuts to spend so much time at it? Is it an exercise in intimidating your opponent into missing the putt? Actually, the answer to all […]

  • Is Valentine’s Day All About Love?

    Yes, of course it is! Love of card sales. And actually, sales of almost anything else you can imagine! Try booking a table for two in a popular restaurant, especially if Valentine’s Day falls on a Friday, a Saturday or, like this year, a Sunday. You can find special Valentine screenings of Love Story or […]

  • Valentine’s Day Is Good For Your Health

    Valentine’s Day could be renamed as Health Day because research shows that being in any form of loving relationship is good for your health. We are all aware of the feelings of happiness and joy when we are in a loving and caring relationship; we carry an aura of well-being around with us for everyone […]

  • Miranda Was Great For My Health

    Laughter is good for you – Clinical Hypnotherapist Karen Brown explains the relationship between laughter and mental health

  • McAfee Siteadvisor – Help – Is This Legal?

    McAfee’s behaviour is the online equivalent of Tesco or Asda standing in front of a corner shop with placards saying “Don’t shop here -the food is contaminated” Is it legal?

  • How To Learn About Hypnosis For Self Improvement

    I knew very little about hypnosis – Adam new next to nothing about websites. However put together his wealth of knowledge from a llifetime’s work devoted to Clinical Hypnotherapy and my website work and together we have produced a website full of resources for anyone interested in hypnosis, NLP and self-improvement via the powerful mind.

  • From Beginner To Therapist – Hypnosis Revealed

    My introduction to the power of hypnosis and self-hypnosis goes back about six years now when I met Adam Eason a leading UK Clinical Hypnotherapist at a BNI network meeting.  As a former nurse I became fascinated by the physical changes that Adam was able to bring about in his clients just by using the […]

  • How Best To Sneakily Watch The Ashes Cricket Encounter

    OK – for me this is as good as it gets.  The coverage of the Final Test match at the Oval has just begun on TV.  With the series level this is the decider. Wow – I love it and normally I would be found for five days almost inseparable from my TV, digital radio […]

  • Kevin Hogan And The Crass Behaviour Of The Sheraton Belgravia

    By proxy I feel I know Kevin Hogan.  I have never met him or spoken to him – but my business partner Adam Eason speaks with great affection about him.  Kevin, an American  international motivational speaker was over here in London this last weekend.  Today I received his regular Coffee Time Newsletter and here is […]

  • Why Does Inspiration Come When Your Mind Is Blank?

    When do you get your “ah-ha” moments, your flashes of inspiration, your genius moments? If you are like me they come when: lolling in the bath relaxing on a beach or in the garden awaking from restful sleep enjoying a carefree walk in a trance during a self-hypnosis session In other words when you are […]

  • Freefall Financial Drama On The Money Says Keith Watson

    I watched a great financial drama on BBC2 last night – “Freefall”. Today my usual Google Alerts came in for my name ‘Keith Watson’ and lo an behold another Keith Watson had written a review of the programme which I think is absolutely spot on – and so – over to another Keith Watson: Metrolife […]

  • Lloyds Bank And ClickBank Dilemmas I Need Help

    I am writing this blog post to give me time clarify my thoughts as to how to respond to my latest on-line dilemma. Computers were designed to make our life easier and as for the Internet well the ultimate communication tool surely. Well yes that would probably be true if a whole new layer of complexity hadn’t entered our lives. Why do I lurch endlessly from one on-line frustration to another. I am positive you will identify with the two problems I am currently grappling with and have stories of your own to relate. Let me start with my immediate concern….

  • Why You Should Pursue Happiness TODAY – NOW!

    I was talking to a friend yesterday who is going through a lot of stress and she basically was telling me how unhappy she felt. I noticed that she kept referring to when this happens I will be… If that happens I will be… In other words happiness would happen at some time in the future given certain conditions. As I was talking to her I recalled that I had a book on the subject that had helped me enormously when I was going through a similar period myself. […]

  • Strange – We Love Positive People And Yet Consume Negative Media

    My wife Barbara is a Health Visitor and some time ago attended a series of NHS training sessions given by a guy called Chris Croft. As a result I often see laying around the house printouts from the his newsletter which I always find fascinating reading. Now – I don’t know Chris (if you don’t count seeing him playing in a group once) but I feel as though I do.