ACTION: Pick up a pen (an easy writing one rather than a biro) and two or three sheets of  A4 paper. Use junk mail if you can’t find any paper.

Find a corner of your day and sit down for twenty minutes. This can be your lunch / tea break  or even during your commute.

Write – just let it spill out – grumble on the page, grouch about what you hate, and whiter about what obsesses you. Allow yourself to dream about what you would like to do.

Ask for guidance when you write eg ‘What can I do about Aunt Minnie?’ answer your self on the page. You will find yourself surprisingly eloquent with more inner wisdom than you imagine.

Don’t try to be literary – just keep your pen moving. Don’t worry about grammar and spelling you are not going to reread this.

THEORY: Our heads are filled with junk, which rattles around preventing us with getting on with things. On the page it doesn’t have such a hold over use. We also fail to regularly have proper in-depth conversations with ourselves about what we want and like. This is a way of accessing our true selves unmediated through other people.