Brilliant Blogs

Brace yourself for oodles of the f-word. Dirty, rotten, stinking FAILURE. It’s a funny thing, failure. For a start, it’s not actually funny – when it happens to ourselves, that is. Given a choice, we prefer success to failure, any day of the week. So who the heck are the succeeders? The people who g...

Posted on 13 February 2019

We’re all familiar with ‘presenteeism’ at work, that feeling of turning up and going through the motions. But it’s a much bigger concept than work. Presenteeism can apply to life. You’re centre stage, the leading player in your own life, but struggling to engage with the plot. Modern life is hectic ...

Posted on 10 January 2019

The secret to happiness turns out to be not-so-secret. Family. Relationships, love, human connection – that’s basically it! So here’s something for all the family, some quirky/fun tips taken from the science of positive psychology. 1. Get huggy Christmas is a time for family & friends and,...

Posted on 2 January 2019

While we want people to have fun in our sessions, more importantly, we want people to go away and start to change their thinking and do things a bit differently. It’s not rocket science, but it’s easier to get bogged down in the workload again and forget. In my sessions I always do an exercise [&hel...

Posted on 21 November 2018

I’m not convinced that anyone actually understands American football. The bit I do get is that the quarter back is a key player, as are the wide receivers. The quarter back’s job is not to throw the ball directly to the wide receiver, but to throw the ball to where the wide receiver is going to [&he...

Posted on 1 October 2018

At ‘Art of Brilliance’ we pride ourselves on bringing you content that you haven’t heard before, even if it’s a bit yucky. Fact. The humble sea squirt paddles around the ocean until it finds a rock. Then it attaches itself, gets comfy and eats its own brain. Why? Because its brain is useful in findi...

Posted on 3 September 2018

I was at an engineering company, quick trip to the loo and as I walked in I noticed there was some weird foreign message scrawled on the wall. Made no sense. I chuntered about foreigners and Brexit. Like you do. Why do we have to have signs in Eastern European? Come the revolution, all signs [&helli...

Posted on 1 August 2018

It was 5am, and middle England had just begun to tilt towards the sun. That was the signal for my first-born to bound down the stairs in a state of great excitement. The full force of my 5-year old hit me in the overly-full morning bladder. Oof! And she was wafting a glittery piece of paper at [&hel...

Posted on 1 June 2018

The news is nearly always bad. The worst of the worst. The biggest earthquakes, the hottest forest fires, the bloodiest wars, the scariest criminals, the worst car crashes, the windiest winds, the Brexiest Brexit… It’s true that, from time to time, stuff does go pear-shaped. Sometimes in a big...

Posted on 1 May 2018

Andy’s got a new book out. He says it’s exactly the same as all his other books with the crucial exception that it’s better – funnier, sillier, cleverer and naughtier. As a loyal follower of our work, he hopes you’ll be interested in his best work ever. As a personal de...

Posted on 1 April 2018

You’re tired, tense and just want it to be over. It’s the early hours of the morning, you are nearly there and then suddenly the screen goes blue. AAAAAAAAARRRRGH! We’ve all been there (at least, those of us of a certain age) – and probably too many times to remember. The blue screen of death [&hell...

Posted on 9 March 2018

Yes, there’s a bit of genetic jiggery pokery but when you emerge into the bright lights, you have no idea whether you’re white, brown, black, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Jedi, or whether you’re destined to support Derby County, Arsenal, Partick Thistle or none of them. You’ve no idea...

Posted on 23 February 2018