Personal development

The mother/daughter relationship can be one of the closest and life-enhancing in our lives. Sadly it can can also result in hurt and estrangement. Conflict counsellor and author, Angelena Boden, gives some tips on how to effect a reconciliation. 

The Clangers for kindness campaign encourages everyone so spread kindness every day – just like the Clangers in their little blue planet. Here are the Clangers top ten kindness tips to practice with your children.

Jon Gordon, author of The Energy Bus, gives his top Five Ways to Stay Positive When Others Are Not.

Subtitled What stops smart people achieving more and how you can change, Robert Kelsey's Get Things Done may be just what you need to kick-start a more productive you, and the principals within the book can be applied to how you organise family life and help your children reach their own portential, writes Anne Coates.

At a time of year when many of us are thinking of ways of improving our lives, Anne Coates reviews An Inside Job by Tricia Woolfrey and Helen Craven who have devised a programme for "simple & effective self-hypnosis for transformational change".

During National Work-Life Week (24 to 28 September 2012), working men and women are invited to take an hour out of their busy schedules to join seven experts for free advisory workshops, which can be accessed from the comfort of your office or home via Skilio.com. You can sign up now!

Today marks the start of National De-clutter Week, but this is something you should be doing on a regular basis, writes Anne Coates who gives her top ten tips.

Published by HotHive Books, Graham W Price's book What Is, Is! outlines the tools and other steps for achieving satisfaction, resilience and success, writes Anne Coates.

Psychologists include superstitions among a wider range of human traits collectively called "magical thinking", that includes other questionable beliefs ranging from a harmless belief in fairies through mildly disturbing beliefs in the paranormal to potentially more harmful beliefs such as fanatical religion, says Graham Price.

Research has shown that authoritative parenting produces the best results for our children. Here Anne Coates gives her top ten tips on how to become an authoritative parent.

There are three main parenting styles: authoritarian, permissive and authoritative. Which one are you?

With the prospect of new toys, books, clothes and other items coming into the home at Christmas, now is the perfect time to clear the clutter, turn out the old and perhaps make a few pounds as well, writes Anne Coates.

With cut-backs and job losses  becoming increasingly prevalent, Rasheed Ogunlaru gives his top ten tips for facing the challenge of redundancy and using this as an opportunity to create a profession from a passion.

Based on Dr Kem Thompson's personal philosophy, medical training and experiences as a life coach, Inspirational Blueprints for Personal Success for Women gives you 30 days to change the way you think and become the success you deserve.

Monday 18 January is officially designated as the gloomiest date in the calendar by Cliff Arnall, psychologist and former tutor at Cardiff University. It’s based on a mathematical formula that takes into account a number of "depressing" factors, including weather, debt, time since Christmas and failing New Year's Resolutions. Dr William Holden, author of the guide, a self development book offers six easy steps to overcoming the barriers stopping you from realising your dreams.

Anne Coates reviews a book which could have an amazing impact on your life: The Winner's Bible by Dr Kerry Spackman.

Make your resolutions for 2010 work for you with Anne Coates' 12 top tips in the form of an acrostic poem.

Rasheed Ogunlaru outlines his ten-point plan for reducing stress  – whether manager at a multi-national who rarely sees the daylight or a mother at home who barely gets to sleep.