A New Year is a great opportunity for businesses to tell their clients that they are thinking of them… but what about the rest of the year?

Well how about making a New Year resolution to send a regular newsletter?

According to the government our economy is currently growing at its fastest rate since 2007!

If this is the case, then surely your clientele is growing too, with customers pouring through your pub door!

We’ve just worked with the creative team at E.N.F. to produce a range of quality full colour promotional cards to tie in with the recent launch of enfuk.com, a brand new lifestyle concierge company in Chichester.

People don’t buy on price. It’s true … even though we often wrongly assume that price is all that matters. However, if we all bought on price we would all wear the same clothes (the cheapest), drive the same cars (the cheapest) eat toast for breakfast, lunch and dinner and never go out.

In our competitive, ever changing business environment, one thing that will never change is the importance of making a good first impression. When you meet and mingle with other networkers, you get that vital opportunity to show them face to face exactly who you are and what you do, but once you’re out of sight how do you make sure they remember you?

Hypnosis is a complex form of behaviour which can be induced under certain conditions to form a trancelike state in which the recipient achieves a heightened quality of relaxation that allows them to bypass their critical faculties. This in turn allows those hypnotised to accept suggestions or recall events to overcome issues which may adversely effect the way they live. Hypnotherapy uses this hypnotic state to help people overcome their issues or motivate themselves to achieve change or realise goals that may otherwise have been beyond them.

We have all been there, we start on a new diet and all we can think about is the food we cannot eat. We don’t have fantasies over eating an apple or taking another helping of broccoli at dinner, its always chocolate, cakes and biscuits. Why? Eating like many other things in our life is based on habit. We do it every day and it sinks into our subconscious and we do not think about it any more. But when we first start a new diet, like anything new, it is unfamiliar and we tend think about it a lot in our conscious mind. When you are thinking about your diet, you don’t tend to think about the food you can eat, but rather the food you cannot eat. While you are doing this your subconscious imagination kicks in and gives you images and tastes of all the wonderful things you could be eating.

Many people have problems with taking exams. You know the feeling, you pay attention in class, you know all the answers in class, you find all the homework and assignments really easy but as soon as the exam looms and you start revising, panic sets in and once you go into the exam rooms your mind goes a complete blank. Sounds familiar? Well there are several things you can do to help yourself, but first you need to understand that nothing will overcome lack of knowledge or preparation, but there are several things you can do to help yourself. But, to do the best for yourself, you really need to take action before you start revising or worse still the exams are only 2 weeks away. That is to say that like many things now would be a good time to start.

An interesting article recently published in Runner’s World magazine references some research undertaken at the University of Kent’s School of Sport and Exercise Science looking at whether psychological interventions, such as hypnosis, can enhance performance in endurance sports. As part of the research the University conducted a review of published articles which looked at the effect of psychological interventions on the performance of endurance athletes. After looking at the best designed studies the researchers concluded that more often than not using such techniques do actually improve performance. Techniques that were found to be beneficial included: goal-setting, hypnosis, imagery and self-talk. At the same time the researchers found that mental fatigue or losing focus during an event or training was detrimental to performance.

A lovely relaxing walk.
East Head provides a wonderful 6 km walk along the sandy beaches and dunes of East Head. With spectacular views across to the Isle of Wight, this walk will fill the wish list for all things beautiful.