The Influence of TV on Our Lives

If there is one invention that has been equally good and bad for society it has got to be television. “All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?” – Nicholas Johnson Commercial television broadcasting began in earnest in 1946 and it’s success has been nothing short of phenomenal. The only problem [...]

Best Hangover Cures

“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” – Frank Sinatra Most people like the odd alcoholic drink and most of us are guilty of occasionally having one too many. Yeah, at the time we feel great, the [...]

Visiting the Doctor

“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing” – Voltaire (1694 – 1778) In this day and age the vast majority of people are fortunate enough to enjoy relatively decent health but there comes a time [...]

The Importance of Education

The Importance of Education “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” – H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946) I first came across the above quotation about ten years ago when I read a book on prophets, the quote has stuck with me over the years but I must admit I [...]

Why do People Gossip?

  Everyone loves a scandal, none of us like to admit it but who could honestly say they have never gossiped about anyone? People have gossiped since the birth of mankind, there is obviously something very addictive about it, it’s ingrained in our psyche and although it is wrong and often unfair people we will [...]

Why Are We so Obsessed With the Weather?

Like it or not we are all obsessed with the weather. Granted, us Brits are more obsessed than most but our excuse is our climate is probably the most miserable. The weather does affect each and everyone of us though and it affects virtually everything we do. information on the weather is available in every [...]

Why do We Buy Things?

We buy things for many reasons, we buy lots of things we need and lots of things we don’t need. If you have serious designs on making money it is vital that you understand why people buy. # Necessity: We can’t live without things such as food, water, shelter etc, so we have to aquire [...]

How to Get Promoted

How to Get Promoted When pitching to a group of people it is crucial that we ascertain as early as possible who the decision maker(s) is. A good way of doing this is to ask the group a key question and look who they all turn to for the answer. It’s very similar when we [...]

Why do We Love Food?

“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” -  Adelle Davis (1904 – 1974) Even though we all need food to survive our relationship with food goes much deeper than that, we have developed this amazing love affair with it. All animals need to eat but we have turned [...]

Best Use of Time

Time is precious, we all know that. We all get the same amount of time each day, time is perhaps one of the few even playing fields in life. Thus how we utilise it is vital to our success and happiness. We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. – John F. [...]