Your look, your style, your image is another pillar in the all-important B-word: branding. Your purpose in the world, your chosen mission and goals, should flow through every aspect of your life, whether it’s your appearance, your home or how you represent yourself on social media. If you meet someone who says they’re highly organised, but then

Their study found that adults who actively engage with people they don’t know also tend to be happier and less moody with their friends and family and feel a greater sense of belonging in their wider community, compared to adults who just go about their business, blinkered and insulated.

“Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.”

As I’ve worked on myself and become more in tune with my core, I’ve also become more sensitive to other people’s energy. That’s why I now make a conscious decision to be around fun, uplifting, bright, light, positive people, because negativity is contagious and will hook you in.

Where do you feel at your most optimum? What are the common factors in the places, spaces, environments and locations where you feel at your most invincible, grounded, rounded and vibrant? This is about growth and getting to know yourself, discovering your triggers – both positive and negative – and putting them to good use.

Instead I’m asking you to ask yourself: where do you feel most comfortable and confident? Where do you laugh the loudest? Where do you let your guard down? Where do you feel the urge to take an Instagram photo because you want the world to see what you see and feel how you feel? Where do you get your biggest ideas? Where do you feel free to stretch

The real currency is true, human connection,

A few terms a year I go to an art class every Tuesday evening for one hour and it’s non-negotiable. Me-time can often get put on the backburner when we’re juggling responsibilities but it’s so important.

Have you ever heard of Sonia Sotomayor? She’s a big-name judge in America, associate justice of the Supreme Court, and she put it perfectly: “Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than an inspiration; his