Worrying is a pointless activity. Fact! Worrying is focusing on a fear that is not currently present. It's worrying about a thing that may or may not happen later.

Call me crazy but I love hearing when clients or friends are "totally over it". When they can't look at another "fat picture" or drag themselves into the office for another soul-destroying day.

Want to transform your happiness at work or home life with just four little words? Sure you do.

Being away in fabulous Turkey has been a blur of sunshine, family, laughter and new sights, smells and tastes. A total break from the usual routine, any stress has melted away in the lazy Turkish summer heat.

Here’s the thing. Our brain is like Google. It’s an incredibly efficient search engine.

Worrying about our problems is an almost constant occupation for many of us. The worry that we are raising our children right, or that we are doing a good enough job at work, that our parents are healthy and independent, that our spouse is happy.

Trekking to Machu Picchu is a once in a lifetime experience, and I am so glad to have been able to do it. Once in a lifetime, that is, unless you are a guide or a porter on the Inca Trail.

Nadia Lim's recipes in last week's Bite encouraging us to eat more slowly, reminded me of an article I read recently that said the average person puts on 3.6kg when on a two-week vacation to the U.S.

Self-care is often confused with selfishness, so frequently comes very low down on people's "To do" list - just under "clean out the garage" and "take jacket to the drycleaners".

This video shows chilling effects of whooping cough on babies Waikato mum Stacey Illingworth is sharing footage of her baby’s struggle with whooping cough to help prevent other parents going through the same trauma. Stacey and her daughter Sativah returned home to Te Aroha recently after spending five weeks in Waikato Hospital. Because Sativah was too young to be fully immunised against whooping cough (pertussis), Ms Illingworth is encouraging all parents to be immunised, and try and avoid contact with anyone who is unwell, especially if they have a cough. Video courtesy Waikato District Health Board. www.waikatodhb.health.nz/whoopingcough

There is an upside to getting a cold. We're forced to slow down, says Cliff Taylor.