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 | 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...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Business, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES Failure, Fault and Blame Ah, this old hobby horse. If only more people rode it (dodgy metaphor, but let it go). Mostly, the meanings and values seem to be misunderstood. Failure means non-occurrence, lack of success, objective unachieved, the...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Business, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES Father Brown G.K. Chesterton’s character Father Brown was inclined to say “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution; it is that they can’t see the problem”. Gosh, isn’t that so often what humans do?...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES What you can’t put in the book In a discussion about biographies somebody said “The problem with the autobiography is that you can’t include the important truths until everybody is dead – and that includes the...
