When Adrienne Banfield Norris was asked by her daughter to share her top life tip she told Jada Pinkett Smith the secret to her survival was down to one simple thing - Endurance.

Some foods do way more than you'd ever imagine, even down to making you more attractive to the opposite sex.
 

“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” Thomas Edison

I say it a lot. Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. Head up, shoulders back and smile.

Judging others is harmful behaviour. If we took the time to listen to someone's story, we would never judge them we would have empathy instead.

We don't like everyone we meet. We are not attracted to everyone we meet. The facts of the matter are we will only ever attract ourselves, the best reason to work on yourself if one day you want to hang out at the top.

With every new day comes the chance to let it all go, forgive yourself and start again. Feelings of regret are powerful and if we allow them to fester they will without a doubt keep us stuck in misery indefinitely.

Stop stressing. Stress is directly linked to increase risk of heart attack and stroke. If you need another reason to give up your stress. Did you know stress makes you fatter?

Seeds of anger and resentment are sewn in the subconscious mind from the beginning and unless we actively address the reasons for them deal with them, forgive the perpetrators and ourselves these feelings will continue to manifest forever.

Courage is one core value we work on in therapy. Task 1. Do something every day you would normally be afraid of. Sometimes just being brave enough to tell someone the truth is all your need to do to make a massive change.

We all want to discover the fountain of youth or be given a quick fix pill taken every day that reverses the ageing process.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, the truth hurts, but there is only one sure way to maintaining youth and that’s a healthy lifestyle, positive mind set, tons of will power and more important than all; Desire.

At 64 I think I look good for my age and have always believed that self-confidence is the key and...

If you cannot be happy poor, you will never be happy rich. It is only when you are forced to live without money that you get to recognize how much stress and worry a life without money can bring and with stress and worry comes lines and wrinkles. Although you cannot buy a life at Harrods, only stuff to put into a life, so getting a life is critical. I stand by the following top tips to help get you started on your new path to being happy with or without money. If you had a call...

Madness creeps in little by little and is becoming a rapidly growing problem in this current culture where all our thoughts are channelled by big brand marketing, telling us what we should do and buy in order to be happy and accepted by others. With this type of manufactured thinking, fuelled by desire, greed and a want it now mentality, there is no room for intrusive thoughts, those thoughts you have no control over because they are always there to tell you the truth....

Life to me is like a book and we all read it. Happiness is a true blessing and we all need it. Happiness comes from escaping your denial by learning to smile because we are all here for just a while. Life is never about fitting in, it’s about being yourself. The past can reflect who you are today but may not reflect who you are in the future because it’s not always about how long you try but about how hard you try.

If you spend your time...

What to do on one of those dull, dark, grey days, that keeps you locked up indoors with cabin fever going stir crazy, fighting off the feelings of depression and wishing we could just book a one way flight to paradise. Even I admit to feeling a little low energy on days like these but I put that down to missing my daily walk in the countryside. The sky opened up, the rain poured and even I gave it a miss instead.

I really work hard on days like these because I truly hate to see...

We are living in a world where people are obsessed with the act of projecting their own behaviour on to that of others. So why do we care so much about what others think of us? 

The truth is we are in denial about what our own truth actually is. When we find ourselves talking openly about our lifestyle, we immediately allow others to consider what we are doing and comment upon it. In reality it would make more sense to pay attention to what we are...

As we get more focused on thinking for ourselves, instead of relying on the opinions of others, our choices are widened, giving us scope for some refreshing revelations.

We live in a box, we get information from a box and we die in a box, so some out of the box thinking would be a good for all of us.