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I’ve been working hard recently. Locking myself away from the world and staring at a computer for hours on end. Slowly but surely I found success coming into my inbox but my happiness dwindling, wafting away with each day I spent on my own. Lally, noticing this, suggested I start listening to my own advice […]

I thought it was quickly worth looking at the types of happiness that most of us are striving for! Stage 1: Things. This is the happiness you get when you buy something new or receive something. I remember getting the iPhone 6 and being jolly happy with myself – for all of 2 days. After […]

We already chatted about how powerful and positive your smile can be on Week 3. But what about you? Surely you deserve to have smiles shining upon you too. They in turn make you smile on the inside and the outside and generally make you feel awesome. So this week’s blog is about choosing the […]

On the 15th April 2013 I was sitting in my kitchen in Devon, England after a run around the town of Totnes with a friend, Kate, listening to the radio. Suddenly the vibe on the radio changes and we hear there’s been a bombing at the Boston Marathon. A bomb at the end of a […]

#4 Be a Fine Wine It’s my birthday week. Yes, it lasts for at least 7 days. Yes, cake every day. Yes, my last year in my thirties has begun. It’s causing a worry in my head. It comes from a throw away comment my Mum made about 15 years ago that has stuck with […]

#2 Getting it Right Last week I spent an intensive week doing a Showstoppers work shop on Musical Improv. Improv generally works by you taking a word from the audience and from that single word you create scenes, relationships, emotions and places. With musical Improv when the energy or emotion of a scene gets too big to […]

I promised myself on the 31st of December that I was going to write a blog post every week about happiness. I mainly want to do it for my own personal wellbeing (seeing things written down is always good for making sure they last for more than a second in my goldfish brain) but if […]

I promised myself on the 31st of December that I was going to write a blog post every week about happiness. I mainly want to do it for my own personal wellbeing (seeing things written down is always good for making sure they last for more than a second in my goldfish brain) but if […]

#3 Your smile is more powerful than you think. I was walking in the Ukraine through a town looking for somewhere to fill my belly. It was after dark so I was gingerly picking through the cracks and the rubbish on the streets. Suddenly a man jumped from behind a bus shelter and put a gun […]