Visualisation is more than daydreaming. Here is how to picture your goal clearly, feel it, and let that picture guide what you do next.

When you feel stuck in the same loop, your mindset is the place to start. Three tools I come back to again and again: visualisation, gratitude and autogenic training.

You would never speak to a friend the way you sometimes speak to yourself. Here is how to notice your inner critic, question it and answer it kindly.

The way you think about food and speak to yourself matters more than any eating plan. Here is how to swap self-criticism for understanding, and look after your body kindly.

What you tell yourself all day quietly becomes what you say, what you do and, in time, who you are. Here is how to listen in, and how to change the conversation kindly.

What happens to you is only a small part of the story. The larger part is how you respond, and that part is yours. Here are gentle, practical ways to meet a hard moment.

Be scared, but don’t be afraid. Fear is part of every worthwhile step, and it doesn’t have to decide for you. Here is how to act with courage while your heart is still beating fast.

One thought going round and round can spoil a whole day. Byron Katie’s book Loving What Is gives you four simple questions to ask of it, and they can change how you feel surprisingly quickly.