How are you keeping to your New Year's resolutions: are you being an angel or keeping to your devilish ways?

How are you doing with your New Year resolutions? Halo glowing because you’ve stuck to your new intentions for three weeks now? It’s widely bandied around that if you stay doing a new activity, intention or behaviour for 21 days it will then become an ingrained habit – so if you’ve got through to 21…

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5 good habits to maintain rather than January good intentions

Our naturopathic nutritionist Rhi Hepple shares five simple good intentions that ought to be not just to put on your January halo – but to maintain for the rest of your life January is usually a time to put some good intentions in place and, although you may not be grabbing detox and gym regimes…

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2020 year of the rat

In the Chinese calendar 2020 is a year of the rat. The rat is the first of all 12 zodiac animals, in Chinese culture seen as a sign of wealth and surplus, and also symbolising the beginning of the day. The rat is associated with yang, or masculine, outgoing, active forces, and people born in…

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Turning New Year resolutions into reality

New Year is a time for reflection. You may be feeling remorse after too much indulgence over Christmas. You may want to put 2019 well and truly behind you. You are probably thinking about New Year resolutions to improve your life, set goals or achieve an aspiration. Here are 10 steps to turning those resolutions…

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The signficance of the year 2020

2020 is set to be an important year. The 20th year of the third millennium, the 20th year of the 21st century, the first year of the 2020s decade and a leap year. In numerology, the universal ‘language’ of numbers, it is believed that each number has a meaning, a natural order – and a…

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Writing your New Year resolutions

Rod Davis knows a thing or two about motivating people. As well as being a world-class sailor himself he has coached many sailors to Olympic success. Here are his thoughts on how to motivate yourself to achieve your goals: it doesn’t matter if you want to be get to the Olympics, shed a few kilos, or…

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