Jeff Durham Feeling frustrated from time to time is something that is common to all of us but it’s being able to effectively deal with these feelings that can often make the difference between success and failure and it’s an important concept to grasp if you are serious about your own self …
For those who have become clinically depressed it can be a horrendous experience. Your own sense of self-worth can be shattered. You can mistakenly perceive yourself to be weak and of low moral fibre and you can simply feel worthless. These are just a few of the emotions you might …
Low self esteem and a lack of confidence can hold us back from achieving many things and can also be detrimental to both our physical and emotional well-being. It often begins in childhood where many of us are conditioned by the concept of reward for things we do well and …
It wasn’t so long ago that being made redundant was a cause for major trauma. Apart from losing a regular income people often felt a real loss of identity and felt that there was a stigma attached to the whole issue of redundancy. Although redundancy can still cause people a …
Most people who have negative opinions about the value of ‘networking’ in business tend to comment that they see it as insincere and that there is always a hidden agenda to people you meet. However the ability to network successfully is one of the most prized skills a business person …
We all have problems in life. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what to do with them. But we can’t let the problem stop us from living. We need to keep going and see if there are any solutions for our problems. If we give up, then we won’t live …
Long gone are the days when we all had a career for life and nowadays we’ll all change jobs, and sometimes even careers, several times throughout our working lives. Sometimes these changes will be foisted upon us by events like redundancy and we might also decide that we wish to …
Most of us will set ourselves some goals or targets that we want to achieve at some time or another. However, unless we’ve clearly set out a timescale in which we want to complete our aims or a target which will move them on to the next stage, it’s often …
Most of us will have come across descriptions of successful people where words such as ‘persistence’, ‘perseverance’, ‘tenacity’ and ‘stickability’ have been used to describe them. It is a fact that when we adopt these kinds of traits and incorporate them into our daily lives, we are much better equipped …
We will have all had experiences where an understanding of assertiveness training would have come in very useful. For example you might have really wanted to say something to somebody but ended up saying nothing for fear of causing an argument or perhaps you’ve ended up having a violent outburst …
