Do you often say you make decisions from your gut? If so, that’s a problem. Your gut instinct is actually your subconscious mind making a series of interpretations based on your emotional baggage until it feels it has gathered enough evidence to label it as a feeling and create a chemical response - in your gut - Phew!. Hey presto! Based on that feeling, you make a decision. I want to say this has worked for me and I’ve led a faultless life, but unfortunately, it hasn’t...

Last night I stood poking holes through my living room ceiling with a roasting fork, while water poured on my head and into a series of bowls and buckets. I realised that flooding my bathroom was entirely my own fault. The fact is that so many of us spend most of our days, NOT calm and under A LOT of pressure and we make poor decisions, sometimes these decisions don’t matter too much and sometimes they rain a deluge of consequences upon us.

To keep me present in all areas of my life I have a slightly macabre mantra. ‘If I died to tonight, would I be happy with what I did today?’ …