E = MC2 is the most famous equation in the world. Einstein’s dazzling insight was to come up with a mathematical description of the relationship between matter and energy. The E stands for energy, the M for mass, and C represents the speed of light. I am not a...

I received a call from a young guy who had suffered with a bad stammer all his life. He badly needed help because this debilitating affliction was affecting his job prospects and causing him a huge amount of stress. He began by trying to tell me how it all started. He...

The worst thing that ever happened to me was a few years ago when my marriage hit a major crisis and everything on which my life depended seemed to be crumbling to dust before my eyes. My whole world was turned upside down in a single day and I thought I would lose...

A female colleague of mine recently asked me to share my business plan with a group of high-level coaches she had gathered together, experts in every conceivable field of personal development from all over the world. It had been a memorable seminar during which I’d...

A tribe is out hunting in the arid grasslands of the Savannah. They carry sharpened wooden spears that they have learned to hurl at their prey with extraordinary accuracy. Nevertheless they must exercise the greatest caution, because the animal they’re hunting is...

I stood on the third floor balcony, clutching the rail and staring down at the ground. Two floors below there was a party in full swing. It was nighttime, July 4th, 2002. My neighbours were celebrating Independence Day, laughing and giggling and otherwise making a...

They called it ‘The Summer of Love’. All over the western world young people were seeking a new way to relate to their world, a more spiritual, less materialistic approach to life. Their parents were ‘squares’ in comparison, too complacent by half. Seemingly content...

I stuck the plastic tee into the ground at my feet, placed the ball in position upon it and stared off into the distance at that little red flag waving in the breeze, impossibly far away. Its jerky back and forth movement made it seem as though it was mocking me....

Despite being in his thirties, a little overweight but not totally unfit, Daniel was always wary around water. He’d had a couple of near misses as a child and they had been enough to put him off trying to swim his whole life. The problem was he lived by the ocean. A...

“Always polish your shoes if you want to be a real man. And polish the soles while you’re at it, because when you walk up a flight of stairs people following behind you can see them. … Oh, and never wear a moustache. They’re not manly.”   We all know the rules....

The scene is a diner, somewhere in Florida. Nothing fancy, just an average truck stop off Route 95. There’s a guy of around fifty years old in the bathroom washing his hands. His name is John. He checks himself in the mirror, yawns, thinking about nothing in...

I chose the fanciest house I could find in a well-to-do area of London, near to where I lived. It was perfect. It had a gated entrance, and just beyond I could see there was an expensive-looking car - a Bentley - in the biggest, widest driveway I’d ever seen. I rang...