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 lead in the time of a pandemic
With 60,000 books on leadership currently availbale on Amazon you could be forgiven for thinking surely we’ve “done” leadership. But leadership is a dynamic process where the leaders recognised what’s needed in the here and now as well as for the longer term.
The pandemic has required a new playbook for dynamic leadership that is person centered and team oriented and there are six facets to include.
Seeking more than just recovery. Cultivating human flourishing.
It’s one of the greatest opportunities we have ever had.
A chance to reflect, reconsider and reset what we want for ourselves and our future.
We have endured so much as a result of the global pandemic and there’s still a way to go.
And yet.
Beyond the fog of uncertainty and the mist of fear, like a giant pink moon illuminating the path ahead, this is the time to think beyond tomorrow and make some different choices.
Are you looking for more?
Are you ready to step up and put in place those ways of doing, those useful habits that will enhance your ability to get the most out of what life has to offer?
Are you ready to let go of those negative self-limiting beliefs, worries, frustrations and chronic fatigue?
Because you can.
What’s the one thing you need for a better future?
If you like me are experiencing pandemic fatigue. It’s OK.
I yearn for the day when the morning news will be no news about the coronavirus pandemic because it’s over.
I hanker for more of those small things that brought me some small relief from the daily stress, anxiety and disillusionment with the world.
I’m deeply grateful for the one thing that saved my life.
Grief, loss, sadness are the emotions we feel when dealing with adversity or tragedy and that’s normal. It is only by using the power of all our emotions that we can reconnect to what makes us feel happy. They allow us to reconnect with what’s truly important to us, our values and beliefs.
The one thing that changed my course was curiosity.
What’s yours?
Can the Way We Were Prepare Us for a Better Future?
Nostalgia. Love it.
What takes you back to a particular event or time spent with friends?
Is it music, photos, or certain smells?
Why do we hanker more than ever for nostalgia now?
Why?
Because those feelings, those warm memories of times past help us to deal with the current pain, sadness, grief and trauma associated with living at the time of uncertainty, stress and anxiety. It’s a form of self-soothing, that, unlike comfort eating doesn’t cause us to put on weight. It enhances those feelings of social connectedness, of having a sense of purpose and meaning.
In other words, it’s a great resource for our psychological health and wellbeing.
It helps us to regulate negative emotional states.
Perfect for when living in the challenging time of a global pandemic.
Why Uncertainty Can Be a Blessing
If living in the “Time of Covid” has left you feeling more than a little unsettled, anxious and fearful for your future, it’s hardly surprising. Uncertainty has become rife. It’s everywhere. It taints our outlook. It colours our world view. It peppers our conversation as the endless debate, blame shifting and finger pointing around who did what, said what, didn’t do, leaves us feeling breathless and exhausted.
The antidote is not certainty, although having some certainty can feel reassuring. The sun will rise tomorrow. The pandemic will pass, eventually. The solution is to be more present to what is happening right now because uncertainty, just like certainty is an essential human trait.
How Your Fragility Can Reveal Your Strengths
Are you feeling a little fragile?
One year into the global pandemic we have all endured so much. So much uncertainty, fear for our future and that of our families. As we anxiously await the roll out of the vaccination program here in Australia, our reality is we will continue to experience further outbreaks of the virus, lockdowns of hot spots and restrictions on travel.
Our fragility can make us afraid.
But it can also serve to uncover our strengths.