And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

Podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 156.

It's titled What We Fight, We Invite.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Happy Easter!

If you're listening to this on the day that it comes out, that is.

If so, then today is not only April Falls Day, but it's also Easter Sunday, a day of chocolate eggs, Sunday lunches, and possible sickness and diarrhea for any unsupervised six-year-old.

That's been left too near their stash of chocolate.

Good luck with that,

if that's in your life right now. Anyway, how are you doing? I haven't seen you for ages. What's going on in your world? If I haven't seen someone for a while, they'll ask me that. And I tend to

have this stock phrase of, oh, you know, same old, same old, work, rest and play,

and not much else really. And I think that's because, despite quite enjoying being the centre

of attention, you know, I work in the theatre, I make this podcast, I present at conferences and

things, but I don't really like talking about myself. Maybe that's just habit. I'd much

rather be talking about other people or listening to them talk about themselves. Maybe that's

just because of my job being a therapist. I'm not used to doing that much talking, so when I get

the opportunity, you can't shut me up, but I still don't like talking about myself. So the old,

oh, you know, work, rest and play, quote,

seems to work quite well. But in fairness, apart from work, rest and play, what else is there?

Most things fall into one of those categories. And I think in order to feel as if your life is going well, it's a matter of managing those three categories, work, rest and play.

And making sure that you're not working too much. And when you're resting, you're not thinking

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