Like, know and trust might appear to be a strange twist on a well-known phrase but we are drawn to people we like before we get to know them. But there is a gap between being liked and being hired.

A campfire in the woods and the sounds of nature. The thought of it makes me happy, but the actual experience brought a much deeper contentment.

Like those "That's not my..." touchy-feely books, your first answer to "why do you do this?" probably isn't quite right either. Keep turning the page. The real one is a few layers deeper.

Ikigai asks what you're good at, what you love, what you're paid for, and what the world needs. Comparison convinces you that three out of four will have to do. What if it's wrong?

A friend once asked me who invented carpet. I still don't have an answer. But the question itself taught me something about the power of simply staying curious.

Jack Canfield's Event + Response = Outcome sounds simple. Except your response may already have been decided for you, by a playbook your brain wrote years before today.

Seth Godin was recently on The Diary of a CEO talking about quitting, resistance and the Gordian Knot. It got me thinking about the word 'but', and the promises we quietly break to ourselves.

Good selfish means putting yourself first for the right reasons. Here's what the research on wellbeing, burnout and boundaries actually says about it.

Entertainment coach John Blackburn introduced me to the Practitioner and Producer mindset. One masters the doing. The other builds the space for it. Which one are you avoiding becoming?

Sociologist Diane Vaughan coined the phrase after the 1986 Challenger disaster. The gradual erosion of standards, repeated without consequence, until normal no longer means what it once did.

Following on from the Creative's Hierarchy of Needs, I've been playing with the idea that the hierarchy isn't a uni-directional ladder. The odd snake in the story might slide you back down a tier. Which got me thinking about Snakes & Ladders, and whether we can shift the odds in our favour. Turns out the more interesting question isn't about the snakes or the ladders at all. It's about which one you're secretly rolling for.

When Maslow built his Hierarchy of Needs in 1943, he wasn't thinking about creative business owners. Here's a hierarchy of needs designed specifically for people building something of their own.

I was inspired to share this blog by something Dr Brooke Bownes said on the "Mind Monkeys Welcome..." podcast this week. "Your beliefs outlive the people who planted them". They don't rely on the person, who put them there, to survive. They just need you to keep repeating them. Here's how to stop.

Practice makes you proficient. But mindset makes it permanent. Discover why working on your mental picture matters as much as the preparation itself.

'Stop Being Stuck' Disarming limiting beliefs by removing the emotional charge from historic events and behaviours.

When did you last think about what you do well? We are so quick to overlook (or dismiss) our strengths – what effect does this have on our self-worth?