In the trailer for ‘Spiderman: Homecoming’, ‘Spider Boy’ – You can tell I wasn’t paying attention in the beginning because I have no idea what his name is… messes something up, millions of people could have been killed, but aren’t. You know, the usual superhero learning lesson scenario. The result is that Tony Stark aka Iron Man takes away, *gasp*, his spider suit... 

Do you remember the year the, ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ sign came out? We all chuckled about how and where it was used. It was everywhere: mugs, posters, and even on a pair of knickers – that’s where ‘keep calm and carry on’ changed its meaning! Unless you have been living in a time capsule, you will have noticed the bombardment of the ‘mindful’ culture: books, toys, apps, classes and even our beloved Ladybird books doing a satirist take of mindful books – which is brilliant I might add...

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. Hey presto! Based on that feeling, you make a decision. I’d like 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?’ …