Get Your Swagger On
johndabell How much swaggage are you carrying? Your self-esteem is built on swagger and so without it you can’t strut your stuff. Getting your swagger on is therefore pretty damn essential…
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Get Lost To Find Yourself
When you get an incurable cancer diagnosis, it’s common to go into freefall. I certainly did. I was terrified and the fear was real. I also felt incredibly lost and…
Tragic Optimism And Cancer
Overcoming the poverty of hope looks impossible in the midst of toxic news and life events, but we still have tragic optimism to draw on as articulated by Holocaust survivor…
Be Your Own Cheerleader
Job for today: be a cheerleader for someone else and get the best out of them. That’s a job worth doing and worth doing well. You cheer them on, that…
Cancer And Metanoia
If there’s one thing that a cancer diagnosis brings about and that’s metanoia. Metanoia means to change your mind and have a new perspective on the world and/or yourself. Cancer…
Donate Your Mental Wealth
There are lots of things that you can donate. Money is the obvious one. A philanthropic act works wonders and you don’t need to be a billionaire to make a…
Jenga And The Cancer Brick
Life is a Jenga tower and the cancer brick is in there somewhere. This stealth brick holds all the chaos. Pre-cancer, you build your base and keep adding bricks without…
Be A Positive Energy Supplier
The energy we give out, positive or negative, can really make an impact on someone else’s mood. Positive energy is contagious. It makes people happy. They turn towards the sun.…
Happiness: The Ultimate DIY Project
Happiness has never been ‘out there’. It’s always been ‘in here’. Yet, so many of us go looking all over the place for it on some sort of misguided global…
Cancer And Going The Extra Mile
Going the extra mile means to do more than one is required to do and be willing to make a special effort to achieve something. The ‘extra mile’ is that…