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Oscar Wilde famously said, "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

In a world obsessed with looking good and sounding important, deliver something which is real and which makes a difference….. you.

When asked how she coped with having such a driven husband, Joan Branson replied, "Extremism in the pursuit of excellence is not a vice."

She went on to say that behind the hype that surrounds her billionaire husband, is a man who works from home and spends a lot of time with the family.

This Thursday we’ll be a third of the way through 2013.

How’s the year gone so far?

Can you remember your first kiss or your first date?

The excitement, the butterflies in the stomach, the expectation of something special.

We spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed; blinking far more often than is necessary to keep our eyes lubricated.

Researchers at Japan’s Osaka University have discovered that the brain powers down during each brief moment of shut-eye. During this "idle" period thoughts are able to wander more freely because conscious thought is momentarily disengaged.

The actor Bill Nighy once described doing theatre as "like agreeing to be ill for two months."

Those who make a dent in the universe fight their fear, show up every day, and put a spring in our step.

When he was 15 years old Nick had a great idea.

Nick had no qualifications and experience. But he went ahead anyway.

"Selling your heart, selling yourself short, selling your soul, that’s prostitution," said Lemmy, legendary libertarian and frontman of Motorhead – 67 years old, still touring and still defying medical science.

It takes courage to be yourself, in a world which is continually trying to make you conform to a stereotype of who you should be.

"I don’t perform. Seals perform."

These were the words of Morrissey – legendary lyricist and front man of The Smiths.