Welcome to my blog
There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise. This is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep, to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
Welcome to my blog
There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise. This is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep, to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
How to Identify the Top Five Essentials to Focus on for a More Humanised, Positive and Successful Workplace
What is going to be your primary focus in 2022?
Whatever your focus, you will have chosen it for a reason and for many, workplace wellbeing is taking top place.
Workplace wellbeing is now seen, not as a nice to have, but an imperative to the creation of healthy and positive workplaces that are attractive to work in.
Stop! Are you wasting your time and energy on problems not worthy of your attention? Keep your hair on, and focus on what’s working right.
Do you ever find yourself spending countless hours trying to find your way through a maze of seemingly endless problems, complexities, difficult people who simply won’t listen, without any time left over to do the work you know needs to be done?
Constantly fixing problems keeps our issues as things needing to be addressed and corrected.
The big benefits of goal setting and how to boost your own chance of success
What’s your moon shot for 2022?
Goal setting is something many of us use to propel us to grow, improve and learn new skills because they help us to stay on track, retain focus and disregard all those pesky distractions that try to get in our way.
But sometimes we get goal setting wrong because we use the wrong language, we’re unsure of what the goal relates to or we’re not that motivated.
If you’re looking forward to a fresh start in 2022, if you’re wanting to do things differently, to embed some new helpful and healthy habits, and move towards being the best version of yourself, I hear you.
Why taking a safe risk on a bad hair day is smart thinking
Psychological safety has become a buzz word which is great because there is a growing awareness of just how important it is in every workplace.
But many are still not entirely sure what it means and sometimes feel threatened by this weird sounding concept.
Do you?
Every day brings risks and opportunity. From crossing the road in heavy rush hour traffic, to talking to your boss about your idea to make meetings more effective, to introducing yourself to that person you see as inspiring, to ask if they will be your mentor.
What makes the difference is acknowledging the discomfort and accepting this to grow personally and professionally AND knowing that you have the full support of your superiors and colleagues.
It was Dr. Amy Edmondson who defined psychological safety as
“a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.”
Are you safe at work?
What Beyonce knows about the value of adopting a growth-oriented mindset
The super star Beyonce has enjoyed massive success in her career with 180 million records sold as a solo artist and as part of Destiny’s Child and with 20 Grammys notched up on her belt.
What she knows about achieving success, is that while it helps to be good at what you do, it’s about not letting perfectionism get in your way. Because if you’re seeking perfection, you’re not learning and if you’re not learning, you’re not growing.
Your mindset matters because it’s what determines your beliefs around your capabilities and the actions you take.
Re-creating the best version of you, by honouring your non-negotiables
We all have them. But we don’t always honour them, even though we know from previous experience we feel so much better when we do.
Your non-negotiables. Those lifestyle habits created by experience and practice, repeated daily, that you’ve come to recognise are what serve you the best to be your best bright-eyed, bushy-tailed self.