Few of us enjoy making big decisions. And yet make them we must. So it helps to understand a few things about big decisions.

A single piece of a jigsaw puzzle makes little sense. When linked correctly with other pieces, the sense appears.

A fact doesn’t care; a fact just is.

It seems to me that the more graphically violent our movies and television shows become, the more prudish we become in voicing what is more natural to the body.

The need to be remembered is equally damaging. It creates a lot of nonsense for our children to clean up.

Don’t ask for the serenity to accept the things you cannot change. Just get on with it.

Do you do things for effect or do you do things for effect? This is an extremely important question, so please take your time. It is such a critical question to ponder that I will now pause for effect.

Do you feel guilty about wasting time? Here’s how to get over it.

Faking upwards only works if you have the foundation but lack the self-belief. It does not work if you have loads of self-belief but no grounding in reality.

Negative self-talk serves a positive purpose – to stop you getting positively hurt or becoming positively dead.