Self

Rebecca Frank explains how to organise your free time and properly disconnect from your responsibilities.

You can’t please all of the people all of the time, as the saying goes. But when we care better for ourselves, we care better for others, discovers Yasmina Floyer. Read on to find out how to stop people pleasing and taking better self-care.

As my mind flits around untethered by firm convictions, I’ve often envied the steadfast, those who seem so sure of their opinions. Yes, in my role as a journalist, knowing how to be open-minded has been a useful trait, helping me see both sides of the story and presenting a more rounded viewpoint than if […]

Many of us have been conditioned to believe that the way to get what we want in life is to formulate a plan and take lots of action. Then we try to get other people to cooperate with our plan – which some of them find annoying. If the first plan doesn’t work, we formulate another and start again. This can go on for years – it’s exhausting and frustrating. There is another way, says John Purkiss, the author of The Power of Letting Go – How to Drop Everything That’s Holding You Back.