Start your journal and make a list of all the times you feel sad, hungry, angry, tired or just unable to motivate yourself

Controlled indulgence is all about being able to have a bit of what you fancy, now and again, without it becoming a compulsive addiction you need to get you through your life.

The first step to motivating yourself, if you truly have never been able to achieve anything, is to take action, so switch off the telly.

Drinking alcohol to excess like any other addiction is lethal. If you are trying to forget your misery, you have to learn how to be happy sober, to ever be a happy drunk. The irony once you're happy sober, drinking or fake spirit as i like to call it becomes redundant.

Don’t smoke, choke and smell like an old ashtray, it’s stupid.

Comfort eating is the act of by passing your hungry full instictive response to feel pleasure in your reward centre. By learning to recognise and respond when you are stepping over the fine line to being out of control you can have your cake and eat it too.

The universal truth is your best friend when it comes to sorting out your mind. Sticking only with the truth in not easy but it does reduce stress and anxiety. 

The next time you catch yourself speaking about someone behind their back, we all do it, ask yourself if you'd be brave enough to say what you have to say to their face.

You don’t get the miracles until you commit to meditation and practise the silence within.

Healthier slimmer people eat the majority of their daily calories before 6pm. Diets don’t work long term. Start a lifestyle plan detoxing to begin the journey to the thin within.

Have you ever said "I never lie", "I am an honest person" "I don't lie"? Now ask yourself if any of these statements are actually true.

Being addicted to something means you feel you cannot live without it. Likely you will do anything to get it but prioritising alcohol will ultimately damage your human connections.

Did you know flossing your teeth could mean you live longer? And a healthy mouth limits your risk of cancer? Health stats aside whiter teeth mean more smiling and more confidence but in Hollywood a professional whitening experience can set you back several hundred dollars.

Men are seven-and-a-half times more likely than women to become problem gamblers, research suggests according to the BBC.

Chemical dependency comes from smoking nicotine and is one of the most intense, repetitive and dependable relationships you will ever have, as it will dominate almost every aspect of your life and your thinking. I smoked on and off for most of my life giving up this time, since my near death
experience except for the odd one now and again, 10 years.

I understand the power of a nicotine buzz or that compulsive dependency and I also understand the...