Did your parents warn you to never to take money  from strangers? Here's my story of this warning. When I was six we lived in a small village in England. One morning I was walking to school through a small wood alone because my brother was sick. On the way I was approached by a nice man who chatted to me and walked me to school. He was there again when I came out of school and offered me sixpence and sweeties to go for a walk with him. Yep...

Says Daniel Gilbert, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University in his book, ‘Stumbling on Happiness’; ‘The brain is a belief making machine, and making future is what it does”, “The greatest achievement of the human brain is to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of reality, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future".  Says Daniel Gilbert, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University...

 "I'm sorry love, I just don't have enough money!" Growing up poor I unwittingly absorbed my parent’s beliefs about money. The struggle, the worry and the stress that comes with not knowing how you will be able to pay the rent and feed and clothe four growing children, had an enormous unconscious negative effect on me that would impact most of my life. I know very little about my parent’s history, Mum told me later that she came from a...

What's The Secret Behind 'The Secret' There are thousands of websites, books, DVD’s, seminars, Webinars and ‘Millionaire Gurus’ all offering us advice on how to make money, encouraging us to spend our money buying their products. Over the years I have attended many of these courses, bought dozens of DVD’s and paid considerable monthly and annual subscriptions to websites – and bought loads of books about Money  and  Success,  all...

12 ways to find the man of your dreams and not the one of your  'desires'   Never, ever, trust a man to your sex hormones when you first meet someone you’re physically attracted to. Women have ‘love/baby’ hormones and men have ‘sex/making replicas’ of himself hormones. (It’s a survival thing) Your hormones drive your emotions and make you do things you’ll probably regret in the cold harsh light of rejection and...