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How to Think Before You Eat and Avoid Temptations
It’s that time of year again, when we are all busy feasting with family and friends and eating what we shouldn’t! I wrote a blog recently about the connection between sugar and stress. It’s a Catch 22. According to one set of experts eating too much sugar makes you more susceptible to stress while another
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Why Women’s Makeup Can Be Dangerous
As the father of daughters I was horrified to read a recent study that found most women’s make-up bags are nests of harmful bacteria. The study, led by Aston University in Birmingham, found that there are enough bacteria in most women’s makeup kits to cause sickness. The researchers looked at five key products most women
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A Simple Trick to Staying Motivated
When once asked how he stayed motivated to write, the famed US novelist Ernest Hemmingway said, “The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel, you will never be stuck.” In 2017
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The Interesting Story of Christmas Cards
Do you still send friends and family Christmas cards or do you just flick off an email? Christmas cards are very much a tradition of English speaking countries. It’s not so big in other countries in Europe and definitely not the thing in Asia and Africa. Americans send some 6.5 billion greeting cards a year,
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How Can You Measure What You Have Achieved the Past Year?
The end of the year is fast approaching. Do you sometimes look back and wonder what you have achieved in a year? I like John Lennon’s ‘Christmas Song’ which begins “So this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over, and a new one just begun.” So what have you done this year?
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Should You Forgo Christmas?
Do you know anyone who is opting out of Christmas this year? I can understand why people would want to forgo Christmas. It is an incredibly stressful time of year. Too many functions, too many duties, too busy, the traffic, the pressure. It is also an expensive time of year – the cost of presents
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The Ethics of the ‘cancel culture’ Concept
Australia’s most beloved dictionary, the Macquarie Dictionary, has just announced its word of the year – cancel culture. Cancel culture is the online phenomenon of boycotting public figures who say or do the wrong thing. In this blog I’ll look at the concept and the ethics of ‘cancelling’ people, who are tried by media or
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How to Stop Staying Things You Later Regret
Have you ever said something you regret? Wait, that’s a dumb question – a better question is how often do you say stuff which you later regret? I often say stuff I shouldn’t. Saying the wrong thing can make you look foolish, but worse, can hurt people. You can damage relationships, even end friendships, and
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What to Look Forward to At 70 … and Beyond
I have really enjoyed writing this series of blogs on what people get out of every decade of life. It reminded me that we do have different priorities at different ages. In our 20s we are still figuring out who we are, but we have time for friends and travel. In our 30s we are
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What Should You Get Out of Your 60s?
Researchers who study life happiness consistently find that happiness dips in your 50s, as you struggle with teenage family members and elderly parents. These same experts also find that 60 to 69 is often the happiness decade of people’s lives! You still have your health, you are financially stable, and you no longer have to
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What You Should Achieve in Your 50s
I found that our 20s are a time for travel, friends, independence and figuring out what you want to achieve in your life. It’s also a time for hard work, perseverance and establishing a career. Our 30s are still a time for big dreams, risks and career, but also a time to enjoy life a
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What You Should Achieve in Your 40s
In my last two blogs I looked at what you should achieve at certain ages. I found that our 20s are a time for travel, friends, independence and figuring out what you want to achieve in your life. It’s also a time for hard work and perseverance and career. Our 30s are still a time
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