ROGIER HOEKSTRA

Prevention is the best medicine. It is really difficult to pull out of negative spirals once we've fallen into them.

• It's hard to pull out of a major depressive episode once we're in the habit of beating ourselves up.
• It's hard to stop worrying ...

True success means feeling content with the unfolding of your life. It's finding happiness in your work and life in the present time and being great all the time.

Interestingly, not always trying so hard to be great is the path to getting better.

If there is something in your life that you don’t love, change it. Cutting out the things that aren’t serving you is the first step for creating the life you want.

An exercise that really helps is to write down what an ideal day would look like for you in five years time. ...