I thought I would share some of the useful things I have picked up along the way to help me cope with life’s ups and downs. Change your label.  Thinking in a positive way gives you positive results, so change your label of yourself – I am successful, I am confident or I am calm and collected.  You know where your problem area is so pick something that is relevant. Stop any destructive behaviour.  This may...

When I left the service, the job I was leaving to go and do was pulled out from under me, well as it turned out it never existed in the first place.  That for me was lesson 1 about civvy street. Someone that was in a position of authority, he was Vice Principal of a university, was capable of offering a job that he was in no way qualified or authorised to. And to make matters worse he then kept up the charade, or so I ...

I found out recently that members of the military in America can obtain money for any purpose and these loans are specifically for the military, including the coast guard, reserve and national guard. And by any purpose they can be for: The purchase a new or used car, truck, SUV, motorcycle or other vehicle. To do repairs or renovations; such as adding an addition to your home or installing a pool for the family. It seems that there are...

I recently came across a quote from Chris Carmichael, coach to 7 time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, which I thought really pointed out the difference between those that are going to succeed and those that just get by. “The last 1 percent most people keep in reserve is the extra percent that champions have the courage to burn”. After reading that I realised I needed to re-evaluate what I was doing and start looking at...

Despite what we may think and tell ourselves, we don’t know much.  And if that wasn’t bad enough, there is a lot of information out there that we don’t clearly understand. Even so, when we get to grips with the idea that we have big holes in our knowledge things become easier.  There is so much stuff that we can now go and find out,  knowledge to be gained, creating and finding new or better of ways of doing things. ...

From the 12 April 2010 the tea that has been brewed up to be drunk by Britain’s Armed Forces for the 10.30am NAAFI Tea Break is now to be available to the rest of the country through 80 stores of the Spa supermarket chain.  And 50p from the sale of every box is to go to the charity Help for Heroes which helps injured service personnel. NAAFI tea has been served to service personnel since 1921 and until now it was impossible to buy...