Control & Change has been nominated in the Southern Enterprise Awards 2026. I’ve been lucky enough to receive awards and recognition before, but this one feels slightly different because Control & Change itself is changing. It is no longer just about “having sessions” or using one particular technique. 𝐈𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐫 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲: Understand what has been keeping you stuck. Remove the barriers in the way. Build confidence moving towards the life you want again. That shift has come from years of client conversations, over 2,000 sessions, and the stories of people getting parts of their life back. 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐆𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐒𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧. So this nomination feels like a nice reminder that the work matters — not because of the award itself, but because of the people, stories and changes behind it. Thank you to everyone who has been part of Control & Change in some way. The next chapter is about making this support clearer, more joined-up, and easier for people to access when they are ready. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.

This simple exercise has helped transform my happiness and how much I enjoy life. Here's how the Happiness List works... 🔶 Write a list of all the little things that make you happy, or that you get enjoyment from. For example, cuddling the dog, sitting in the sun, listening to your favourite song, sitting in silence, walking, taking pictures...anything you enjoy, or used to enjoy. 🔶 This evening, choose 3 things from that list for you to do tomorrow. Write them down, and ideally decide when in your day you'll do them. 🔶 Do those 3 things (or more). 🔶 In the evening, write down 3 things you did that day that made you happy. They might be the things you planned to do, or other things that happened, or a combination. 🔶 Pick three more things from your list to do the next day. Write them down, and schedule them in. 🔶 Repeat Why this works: Lots of us wonder why we aren't happier, but we never actually do things that make us happy...so why would we be happy? Also, even if we do things that make us happy, we don't recognise them, and we forget about them. This exercise makes us intentionally plan in activities that make us happy, and then recognise and reflect on them. This is one of the habits we teach in The Health Pension community, where we help people live longer, happier lives by creating small, daily habits. ⏩⏩ What goes to the top of your Happiness list? ⏪⏪

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You most likely have a talking-to-everyone and connecting with no one problem. If you’ve been posting consistently and still not seeing the sales to match, you don’t have to post more. Getting found isn’t hard anymore. Anyone can get seen. The hard part is what happens next — does someone actually stop scrolling and think “wait, that’s me”? You have to say something that connects to them! That’s a completely different skill than posting more. 👇 Anyone relate to this?

When you decide it’s finally time to get on top of your health, it’s so hard to know where to start. Do you fix your sleep first? Overhaul your diet? Join a gym? Start taking 10 supplements? Trying to change everything at once is why most people burn out within two weeks. Real progress comes from identifying the one bottleneck holding you back most right now. I put together a quick, 3-minute Health Assessment that scores where your baseline is across nutrition, movement, sleep and mental wellbeing, and tells you the area to focus on first...and then gives you small, research-backed actions to start now. ⏩ Take the free assessment here ⏪