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There are few of us who wouldn’t change some aspect of our personal or professional selves. Perhaps we would like to be more confident, better organised, sharper communicators, or less stressed. Wouldn’t it be nice to be more comfortable in ourselves? Good self-esteem and self-confidence are fundamental to living a healthy successful lifestyle.

“Yipee, it’s holiday time again.” That is the chant from primary school children as they cast aside their books, bags and uniforms and get set to enjoy the long summer break.

“Yipee, it’s holiday time again.” That is the chant from primary school children as they cast aside their books, bags and uniforms and get set to enjoy the long summer break.

Fine Gael councillor, Alan Shaw, has proposed the commencement of a new financial incentive scheme to encourage new enterprise and entrepreneurship and support businesses seeking to grow and expand.

A job, healthier finances, a better work/life balance or more quality time with your family. Goals are the starting point of creating a new reality but without proper thought and planning many of them are doomed to failure.

1. Parents can play a major role in building their children’s self esteem. If you want your child to be positive and confident lead by example. Aim to be a good role model of someone with a positive self image. If you feel inferior and hard done by you transmit this to your child in your comments, attitudes and reluctance to embrace change and challenges.

New NUI Galway research has found that advertising campaigns showing the carnage on the nation’s roads could actually lead to young male drivers taking more driving risks.

The key to coping with the recession is to focus on what you can control and on desired rather than current results.

When you comfort eat you are trying to comfort some sort of feeling or emotion that you are experiencing. Comfort eating is most likely to happen at night time. During the day your conscious mind can keep stuff at bay and not think about it, but in the evening at the end of a long hard day it tires and everything is free to come up to the surface. So you experience what is called emotional hunger. You feel the need to eat something to comfort how you feel. Your stomach will oblige by complying with your subconscious, telling you its empty. You think you need food.

When you wake up in the morning do you wish you could go back to sleep? Does getting through each day seem difficult and exhausting?