Bhakti Sharma is an Indian Open water swimmer. At aged 25, Sharma became the first Asian woman and the youngest in the world to set the World Record in open swimming in Antarctic waters by swimming 1.4 miles in 41.14 minutes, at a temperature of...
Dame Julie Andrews is a National Treasure: the leading lady from Broadway, the ground breaking performer on stage and screen in Victor/Victoria, and known for her iconic characters particularly as Maria in The Sound of Music and the lead role in Mary Poppins. So, it was very refreshing to hear...
Join our October BookFest to gain invaluable conversation skills, discover the five pillars to wake up, and know "It's OK" as over fifty public figures share their experiences on dealing with their mental health. How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian and James...
In 1943, Abraham Maslow, one of the foremost researchers in psychology, published his paper A Theory of Motivation in which he divided human needs into D (Deficit) Needs and B (Being) Needs. The D Needs are the categories when the need is missing and we require it...
Call upon your persuasive powers to get the job done I am delighted to have a new article Tapping into the Power of Influence published in the Leadership section of Executive Secretary magazine. I hope the excerpt below inspires you to click to read the full article and discover how C.L.U.E. can...
“This bad inner Chatter. We all know it has the power to overthrow gut instinct, shout us down when we are faced with fear and talk us out of new adventures – yet few of us have a grip on it.” - Fearne Cotton, Quiet: Silencing the...
The term Self Care or Self Compassion has become a trend on social media and in self help media. What does the term Self-Compassion mean, and how does it benefit us professionally? In her excellent introduction to Self-Compassion, Dr Kristin Neff explains that having compassion is essentially being...
Every day we wake up and have a choice on how we will think, react, behave – how we will BE that day. Every day, we are faced with many new opportunities to choose our attitude, our beliefs, and our behaviour. Every day, we wake...
As Matt Haig explains in his new book, this is a world of nerves. Everyone is connected on a global scale within a nanosecond, and yet we are daily battling the rise of loneliness and disconnection within our own communities and even families. Notes on a Nervous...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic...