More exciting news. The Brighton Life Club is opening on Wednesday 6th May and will also be offering free membership. I know a lot of you have been asking for a club in Brighton and we've listened. Do help Nicole break the Hammersmith record of 14 people on the first night. Hammersmith and Bath are still offering free membership too. Important news about Bath - Annie is changing the date of her club from Friday to Tuesday next week. The venue had been full every night except Friday but has wonderfully produced a room for us.

Next week's workshop, Visual Problem Solving, is enormously good fun and incredibly helpful. I used it myself today when I was thinking about what on earth I was going to write for you. I was stuck about what I wanted to say (writer's block???), but instead of focusing on the fact I couldn't write, I asked myself what I would like the situation to be. Just as you'll be doing in the workshop, I imagined my perfect circumstance as a picture and came up with a beautiful old fountain pen writing this bulletin all by itself - a bit Harry Potter style.

As you can imagine, this freed me up enormously and I'm now feeling like a pro again. It may sound complicated, but it's really not. Stickmen are perfect as are mountains and ditches. Visual metaphors are an incredibly important part of Life Clubs toolkit and so helpful - you'll find out just how helpful next week. If you'd like to start understanding them a little better, check out my blog and come along to your local Life Club.

Where are you in a box? And how can you draw your way out of it?

You are all wonderful. My club is fuller than it has ever been and Hammersmith opened on Tuesday breaking all our records with fourteen people. Brigitte had a great evening. I feel a shift happening which is exciting for us and exciting for you because the more buzzy the club is the more people you'll get to know and the more fun you'll have.

Next week's workshop is all about The Rules of Happiness (sounds a contradiction in terms, doesn't it - especially if you disliked school as much as I did). As you all know, happiness is our special subject and as we are now scientifically proven* to make you happier (along with music, exercise and possibly ice cream! - I'm making those three up), I'd say this might be a key workshop to come along to. This particular workshop is all about some of the more classic forms of happiness, that we tend to forget about, like helping others (which you do all the time at Life Clubs) and living in the moment. You'll get some good clear thoughts out of the workshop I know.

The Bath Life Club is starting tomorrow and, although Hammersmith (West London) has already started, both have free membership for the first month of opening - worth £10. Annie and Brigitte would love all your support as they start up.

Nicole is also going to be starting in Brighton on Wednesday May 6th. Nicole is great - in her twenties with an astonishing maturity and poise as well as a good sense of humour. It will be free membership for the first month of opening in Brighton too. If you know people in those parts of the world - or anywhere where we have a Life Club, do tell them about us.

If you're interested in hearing about the swimming pools that gave me happiness - not jacuzzi's this time - plus a little bit more on happiness, do check out my blog.

What were you doing (or not doing) the last time you felt really happy?

Before I do anything else, I want to tell you that we have two clubs starting next week - one in Bath and one in Hammersmith (West London) - and, if you're nearby, I'd love you to go along and support both Annie and Brigitte as they start up (plus membership is free for the first month of opening - worth £10).

The subject of their first workshop (and that of everyone else next week) is values. The value I particularly associate with both Annie and Brigitte, and which is very important to me, is loyalty.

Annie (starting the Bath club) helped me discover my values very many years ago and we have been friends ever since. And Brigitte (although I have only met her recently) showed me her loyalty by coming to my Life Club many, many times before she asked if she could run her own. They are both great women and I know you'll be loyal to them and their clubs.

But, what's so weird about values is the way they contradict each other. Even higher up my list of values is freedom. Life Clubs has been structured around the freedom of the individual to come and go as they please. But how can you be free and loyal? I solve it in my life by being loyal to those who give me freedom, but I love the way that each value brings it's own conundrum with it. That's what makes values so stimulating. So, see you this week and do check out my blog for more on values and everything else.

Which of your values makes you feel the most 'you'?

First of all I apologise right away for bombarding you with bulletins this week. I'm changing our system so that you have advance notice of our workshops, and this week seemed like the best time to change, because it meant I could wish you Happy Easter as well.

I'm not a religious person, but I really enjoy hiding and hunting for Easter eggs and seeing the new-born lambs. A 'Poem on the Tube' (A Prehistoric Camp by Andrew Young) which I saw last week described what I love as:

Pale lambs leap with thick leggings on which I felt fitted the bill just perfectly.

Next week's workshop is about writing and thinking - two of my favourite activities. It's about writing headlines for yourself that will change the way you view your goals - and your life. When writing the workshop I wrote a fun headline for Life Clubs:

Life Clubs working flat out to meet demand for new clubs. And that's happening.

We've got a wonderful full club in Westminster (always room for a few more if you'd like to squish in) and are opening more in London.

So come along next week and write a headline so you can star in your own life.

What headline would you like for today?

This week's workshop is a Life Club's classic on decluttering and it's very well timed because I stayed this weekend with a friend who redefines decluttered. Everything he owns is neatly tidied away and labelled and minimal and, as a result, his home is sparse, but extremely restful. I've caught up on my sleep, written a chapter of one of my new books and read the first part of Jude the Obscure - my fifth consecutive Hardy (yes, I'm addicted).

On the first night my brain still felt a little cluttered and I woke in the middle of the night to write all my thoughts down and organise them, but after that, even it has been under control. So, for all of you who are struggling with order, I thoroughly recommend this week's workshop, Creating Space.

Another thing I thoroughly recommend is that you let any friends who live in Brighton, Bath and West London know that we'll be starting Life Clubs in those three places in about 3 weeks. And that the first month's membership fee (£10) is free - a significant saving. All three ladies hosting the clubs are wonderful and your friends (or you, if you live around there) will have many great nights out.

Hope you caught us in The Times on Saturday and a lovely review in the Evening Standard last Tuesday as well.

What would you have to do to create order in your life? And how would it feel once done?