Free will: What’s that? The Choose You Project
I want to start this Choose You blog with some thoughts shared on The Life Scientific programme on radio 4 about free will. My ears pricked up because, if we are going to have a choice about what we do then free will is, of course, going to be important! The argument...
Is doing your best good enough? The Choose You Project
I'm saying 'do your best' a lot at the moment. My son has a week left of GCSEs and my daughter is in the middle of her A2s. It is not something I thought about all those years ago when having a family, but the 2 year age gap certainly throws up some conundrums as far...
Regrets: What do you do with yours? The Choose You Project
The reason regret has popped to the top of my list as a topic for the Choose You blog this week is that I listened to the Jeremy Clarkson interview (picture taken from www.telegraph.co.uk) on the Chris Evans show recently. Whilst Jeremy didn't specifically use the...
Authentic Political Leaders? More Choose You Ideas
So there we have it. Another General Election in the UK done and dusted. Don't worry. No party politics here. Just a reflective moment on the authenticity (or lack of it!) of the political process we seem to have in the UK at the moment, after watching with...
Poldark: A Choose You Man?
Poldark; the series on the BBC that I have found wonderful, fabulously entertaining and beautiful to watch: yes the actors of course but also the stunning Cornish countryside. What's not to like!? A story with its 21st century edge (ruthless bankers and the struggle...
Choose You: Genius, Magic and Power
Exploring what is around me, I am often reminded of the Choose You™ tools, (Control, Hope, Opportunity, Objectivity, Simplicity, Energy, shared in full in the blog of the 6th February), and I recently went to an event that brought to life the second tool: Hope. That...
Choose You: But What If….?
The Choose You™ project offers us the awareness that we have a choice, but having a choice can feel scary and often requires us to be brave. One of the first things that may come in to our head may start with "what if...?" and to deal with that we need to be able to...
Choose You: It’s Everywhere- Even on The Musketeers!!
One of the tools of Choose You™ is the idea that life is full of Opportunity to practice, explore, try new stuff and make the choices that you want to make. When you are aware of something it is possible to see examples of it all around you. I have certainly...
The first tool of Choose You: Control
Within the Choose You™ project the first letters of the Choose remind us of the tools that help us achieve the You. The first of these is: Control: That you are responsible for you and so can, if you choose to, take control. Not everything in your life happens because...