Go out and ask a bunch of your friends whether or not they have a preference for Coke and Pepsi. Some people say they taste the same, but most people will say they can taste the difference. Ask your friends if they think the subtle meanings portrayed in each brands advertising has affected the way they feel about the drink. Inevitably they will say no. Inevitably, they will say that the only thing that affects the way they feel about the product is the way it tastes. Ask them what they thi...

It would be nice to think that job positions are based on merit. But deep down I think we all know that this is not entirely true. The job market is not fair, Its competitive. Its just that the rules of the competition are more obvious to some than they are to others.The only difference between the people who have worked their way up further than you, is that they know the rules better than you do. That’s what gives them the upper hand, but its about to be what gives you the upper ...

Chronic anxiety is essentially a build up of emotion that gets 'stuck' in our neurology. It might help to think of emotions being like water running through a hose. It just flows through until its gone. But when we get a kink in the hose, the pressure builds up and the flow reduces. Likewise, with anxiety, the flow of our usual emotion is reduced and all we can feel is the tension building up. Even though our conscious mind realises that emotions just flow through us, our unconscious mind ...

At a much younger age, I can remember sitting down with numerous psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists and even more recently a hypnotherapist in Townsville where I lived at the time. And of all the problems that I recall talking about, the number one issue that I struggled with the most was a lack of drive, or really poor motivation. So I spent a long time asking myself the question, What’s the best way to get motivated?Nowadays I think its fair to say that I am one of the mos...

Life, Addiction, Business & Relationship coach Shane Cuthbert's third instalment of his 'WORLD FAMOUS', 'What Drives, Motivates & Inspires Us' book series continues to build upon the knowledge, ideas and understanding learned throughout previous previous instalments in the series.This book is completely dedicated to the many theories of motivation and the attainment of motivation as a skill or something that you can learn. Many people throughout the world are struggling with findin...

You know damn well what you should be doing. But for some reason, you can’t quite command your body to do it right? You tell yourself your going to go to the gym and start getting into shape tomorrow. You tell yourself you’re going to treat your loved ones better. You tell yourself you’re going to work on that new plan. But it just doesn’t go the way you wanted. It never does.The reality is that most people have far less self-discipline than they would like to have. But why is that...

So you're struggling to get motivated?You need to recognise that if you’re not feeling motivated, its not just your physical energy but your mental energy as well. And mental energy becomes drained when you (whether you realise it or not) are avoiding stuff that you really ‘should’ be doing. Essentially what I’m saying here is that its always a lot more difficult to motivate yourself to do things you should be doing opposed to the ones in which you want to be doing.So the f...

I once had a therapy client who told me she bought an exercise bike about six months prior to coming in for some one on one coaching. As is the fate of most exercise bikes, treadmills and gym equipment, it just sat there getting dusty. So she was thinking about getting rid of it. The reason, was that she lacked the energy or motivation to use it and wanted to know how to get back into that mindset to lose weight.My suggestion was this, that she make a routine where she would do jus...

Depression is something that I know well myself, both from personal experience and from the experiences of many people close to me. I remember receiving the diagnosis and the explanation that I had a chemical imbalance in my brain. I saw numerous doctors but I only seem to remember them asking me about the symptoms. As I recall, the outcome was only ever one of four things...The doctor would tell me that I would have to start medication, the next doctor would ask me to stop medicat...

One of the most common reasons that people come in to therapy is because of what they describe as a feeling like being stuck. What that means is, being stuck is when essentially we know one thing up here, we know consciously the logical level, we realize reality, but there's something on the inside that just feels very, very different.We know what we should be eating, we know what we should be avoiding, we know what habits are bad for us, we know what habits are good for us, but de...

Anxiety feels like living life 'on guard'. Learn how to let your guard down and gain more fulfilment from your life without being held back by anxiety.The simplest way to overcome anxiety, if you want the cure-all is really just to get out of your comfort zone over and over and over again, because when we get out of that comfort zone, it literally becomes impossible to stay anxious. The irony, the conundrum here is that when we're feeling anxious, getting out of a comfort zone is a...

You know damn well what you should be doing. But for some reason, you can’t quite command your body to do it right? You tell yourself your going to go to the gym and start getting into shape tomorrow. You tell yourself you’re going to treat your loved ones better. You tell yourself you’re going to work on that new plan. But it just doesn’t go the way you wanted. It never does.The reality is that most people have far less self-discipline than they would like to have. But why is that...