Mastering acceptance is too fold, master positive thinking (everything happens for a reason, the bigger picture always working in your favour) and then lower your expectations.

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.

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.

Change the way you think about things and the things you get will change. Sometimes the most dangerous trips we take are the places we go for comfort in our minds.

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.

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.

We are all slaves to the clock, working to live but most of us are not actually doing the living bit.

The more we have the more we want. It's a fact. Curb your appetite for over indulgence and heighten your appetite for life success.

How do I build self confidence and boost self esteem? Common sense tells us if we believe we're not rich enough or good looking enough we're never going to have any self confidence.

Taking responsibility for your actions gives you humility which becomes very attractive to others you meet

Your Venus Cow is the youthful, fresh, desirable girl lost inside the time gap between what we used to look like and the cruel reality of ageing, menopause and no confidence. You feel like she's gone forever but she's not, she just needs a slap round the face to wake her up.

This time of the year is full of ups and downs, so it is important to have tools at your disposal to deal with whatever comes your way and be able with confidence to use these tools to trigger negative thoughts and actions into the positive. Most of us have so much trouble doing this, always feeling great in the moment and then back to beating yourself up when you don’t feel good but in reality there is..