Clarity & Focus Blog
Top tips to help you have clarity and focus for your life and work.
The Power of Critical Thinking: Spotting Bias and Finding Truth
Discover how biases shape your thinking and learn practical ways to improve your critical thinking skills. From confirmation bias to the mere-exposure effect, explore how to question information, challenge assumptions, and get closer to the truth.
4 Simple Ways to Boost Cheerfulness This Spring
Spring bursts with cheer, lifting winter’s grey. ‘A joyful heart makes a face cheerful’—try these four tips to cultivate happiness this March!
Escape the Noise: How to Find Calm in a Chaotic World
Feeling overwhelmed this February? Discover practical ways to stay calm, avoid news fatigue, shift perspectives, and reset for a more focused, stress-free month.
How to Embrace Courage and Thrive in 2025: Tips for Solopreneurs and Dreamers
Embrace courage in 2025! Step out of your comfort zone, take calculated risks, react positively to criticism, seek support, and try something new. Courage changes everything!
Reflect, Celebrate, and Plan: Wrapping Up 2024
As 2024 ends, I reflect on challenges and joys. From publishing my novel to winning an award, it’s time to celebrate and plan ahead! I give you the question to reflect and plan too.
How to Complete: Nearing the Finish Line After Fourteen Years
From running to writing, embrace the journey towards completion. Discover visualisation, accountability, progress tracking, collaboration, and faith as keys to success. Join the adventure!
Finding the Funny: How Humour Can Transform Your Brand and Engage Your Audience
Finding the funny - humour is a great way to engage with your audience. Here’s a few tips on how to do that effectively.
Don't focus on negative habits. Instead create positive actions
It’s easy to focus on trying to control your doom-scrolling or news consuming to avoid information overload but don't focus on negative habits. Instead create positive actions.
The Price of Tomorrow
Finance is often a huge concern for creatives and entrepreneurs. Learning how the economy works can help you make more informed decisions.
Could you live without your smartphone?
Are you too attached to your smartphone? I was, and over recent years I slowly began the task of detaching, with a view to being smartphone free. Here’s how I got on.
4 transformational benefits of Reading
Reading can increase empathy and concentration as well as stave off the onset of Alzheimers and dementia. We look at 4 transformational benefits in more depth.
7 steps to create a Deep Work habit
How do you stay focused and concentrated enough to get quality work done? In this post I share my formula for Deep Work, and show you how it can work for you.
The 1 thing you never got told about boredom
Boredom is making a comeback. There’s been alot more research of late to indicate how this strange state can actually be beneficial to us. Take a look.
4 tips to stay productive during troubling times
With all that's going on in the world right now, with panic over COVID-19, there's understandably a lot of anxiety, stress and confusion. So here's four top tips to stay in control during times of panic.
How to increase your financial intelligence
One of the top reasons people give as to why they aren’t pursuing their purpose is lack of money. In Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki explains how it’s often a poor mindset that leads to a lack of finance.
5 ways to cope with working alone
It's not good to be alone. Don't make the checkout staff at your local supermarket your only regular human contact-as wonderful as they may be. Here's 5 ways to cope with working alone.
The Proximity Principle - How to do work you love
Are you spending most of your 90,000 working hours doing work you hate? In The Proximity Principle read about simple principles to change that.
7 Questions to help review your year and plan ahead
We are already into a brand new year and decade. If you haven’t already taken time to review last year and look ahead to this year, use these 7 questions to guide you.
Three questions to get clarity on your purpose
What’s your specific purpose in life? Here’s three questions to help you get clarity so you can head into the new decade with a bang!
How to visualise your future
If you don’t know where you’re going, how do you know if you get there? Journey with me into the future and describe your successful self.