by Greg Smith | Jan 27, 2026 | Articles
Life Consultants ARTICLES St Peter’s special offer – (or how to approach the New Year) Do you know the proposition “St Peter’s special offer?” You arrive at the pearly gates, and St Peter says: “Just for today we have a special offer. If you like, you can go...
by Greg Smith | Jan 27, 2026 | Articles, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES Should we depress ourselves by keeping up to date? Traditionally we would distinguish between reactive and endogenous depression. Nowadays these terms are less used, but reactive depression is still widespread and very unwelcome. Surely it...
by Greg Smith | Dec 3, 2025 | Articles, Business, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES Farmers worries – Up horn, down corn? Of farmers’ worries we can safely claim to have a better understanding than most. Farming is a classic example of home, business and personal life intersecting, and any arable farmer who is...
by Greg Smith | Dec 3, 2025 | Articles
Life Consultants ARTICLES Have yourself a merry little Christmas. . . If you loathe Christmas you are not alone (or you may be alone, and that’s the problem. . . ). 20% of UK adults (more men than women) claim to dislike Christmas, and the antipathy appears to...
by Greg Smith | Dec 3, 2025 | Articles
Life Consultants ARTICLES Catastrophe theory, or slippery slope? Catastrophe Theory is an amusing mathematical wheeze which posits an abrupt and probably unexpected switch. Developed by French mathematician René Thom in the 1960s, it describes how a relatively...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES You cannot erase remembered pain Fred Hertzberg was an American psychologist well known in the 60s for his sensible theories and recommendations around job satisfaction and productivity; he was largely responsible for the wider appreciation...
