Personal Growth

Or to give it its full name “Springett’s Rule of the Duality of Feelings” In the simplest of terms it means “If I feel this way about you, then you feel this way about me” The feeling that I’m referring to is not an artificially induced facade, it is not animal attraction, it is that one-on-one connection or lack of it that appears spontaneously when you first meet someone and developes either way during those first few minutes. So, if you think “OMG, he’s such an idiot!” Guess what? He’s put you in the same category. If you think “Wow,…

I owe this story to a guy named Sedley Berger. He used to run a progamme called Advanced Self Management back in the mid-seventies and he started me out on a path that I have followed ever since. I have never stopped working on self improvement and I’m delighted to see that his son Mark is carrying on the good work. He told the story of a guy who wanted to borrow his neighbour’s wheelbarrow. He figured it was not the sort of thing that gets used every day so there shouldn’t be a problem. Then he…

I never cease to be amazed at the power of the mind. One of the absolutes is that if you can get your subconcious on your side you’re on to a winner. How do you do that? Well, there are plenty of books on the subject. They vary from Affirmation (“I must, I must, develop my bust” or “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better and better”) to Prayer, to Meditation and so on. My personal method (thanks to Sedley Burger – here’s his son, carrying on in his footsteps) relies on…