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Compounding interest - and health - what’s the connection? Chewing big hairy things gives me indigestion, so I tend to skip that meal and just feel hungry and dissatisfied and frustrated. In other words, when I try to tackle something that feels big like some years ago exercising regularly to look and feel great. I realised this isn’t just about exercise. This mindset shows up everywhere including work. When we try to tackle something in our lives that feels huge, like exerc

For years I believed I was a binge eater. I used to say I had a “sugar monster” inside me, one that appeared whenever cookies, cake, chocolate, or peanut butter were around. (To be fair, it had excellent taste.) When it showed up, I felt like I had no control. My solution, I thought, was simply to try to contain it. The narratives I kept hearing reinforced that belief, that some people just have to rely on endless willpower around food. But beliefs are powerful. When you beli

I have talked about why willpower fails and why pull / pleasure beats push / pain. Today, let’s talk about how to make change permanent. Lasting change requires emotional conditioning, not just understanding something intellectually, but feeling it deeply and repeatedly. Neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to rewire itself shows us that we can change these patterns by creating new neural pathways. New beliefs stick when you: Create a new meaning Pair it with strong positive

For years I was a binge eater, I called it my “sugar monster”. Cookies, cake, chocolate and peanut butter…honestly it had excellent taste. There were clear triggers: low energy, a special occasion, feeling empty or what I now know as head hunger. I tired everything to stop it - hypnotherapist, restriction, punishment, exercising it away like I could undo it with a sweaty sorry. None of it worked. I felt helpless and frustrated and I saw it as “who I was”. Then last year

I have talked about why willpower isn’t the answer to sustainable change and for this post, we’re going deeper: why change only sticks when it comes from a pull, not a push. Pain may start your motivation, but it doesn’t last. We naturally move away from pain (push) and toward pleasure (pull), and lasting change comes from moving toward something you genuinely want or find pleasurable. What a pull actually looks like in real life: A pull isn’t a rule, a plan, or something you