I recently learned a diplomatic question to ask students or parents receiving significant exam results (drum roll): are you pleased? That same question was also promoted on a parenting course. Yet at work, many of us still crave recognition from [...] Read more

So I was surprised to read in clinical psychologist Lori Gottlieb’s latest book that the opposite of depression is not happiness.  It’s vitality. Curiously, about 90% of coaching clients will list ‘happiness’, not ‘vitality’ as one of their Top 10 [...] Read more

As most writers know, good words are like the Duracell bunny: they are powerful and long lasting.  ‘I have a dream’, ‘Their Finest Hour’, ‘Be the change you want to see’:  we all know who said them, when and why. [...] Read more