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 Spending Time With Mother Nature Does Us Good
I’ve always valued time in nature. An early morning walk before the rest of the world awakes, a stroll along the beach as the waves crash onto the shore, there’s nothing that gives me greater pleasure than feeling the warmth of the sun on my face, a soft breeze and the sounds of birdsong and feeling at one with the world.
But as we have moved to live in more urbanised centres, where work takes precedence over almost everything else, the time we spend outside has diminished. The NHAPS survey reports that the average American spends 90% of their time awake each day, indoors.
This can have a number of adverse effects on our health and mental wellbeing. It’s time to get out more to appreciate the beauty of our natural world and reap the benefits of better health and happiness.
Lost your mojo? How to rediscover your motivation and passion for your work
Exhaustion.
Apathy.
Feeling dispirited.
If you’ve been experiencing any or all of these, welcome to the club. The last few months of the year in the lead up to Christmas are typically the ones where we’re desperately trying to tie up all those loose ends, complete outstanding assignments, organise a break away with the family and finish off the year, and we’re beyond tired.
Many people I’ve spoken to haven’t taken any time off since the beginning of the year.
Disrupted travel plans or deferred events have led us to forget that despite everything we still need time off to rest and restore, even when working from home (and possibly more so).
Why am I so darned tired all the time? (and what to do about it)
The Covid-19 pandemic has created massive disruption at a global level. We have had to deal with the fear of infection and potential risk of death, the requirements of working from home, adhere to lockdowns, adopt physical distancing and wear masks all while trying to hold some semblance of normal life together.
It’s exhausting just thinking about it.
But workplace fatigue is increasing at an alarming rate. In many conversations I’ve had recently I’ve heard the same concerns being shared about the rising levels of stress, which were already too high before the pandemic, burgeoning workloads, the uncertainty about how long the pandemic will last and how bad the economic repercussions may be.
Here are 5 things to help.
How will you reconnect in 2021?
The one thing that’s been hardest to bear during the Covid-19 pandemic has been the need for social isolation away from your family and loves ones or working from home. As we move towards the end of 2020 this is the time to take what you have learnt about yourself in this time and what you want for your future and goals. What do you envisage the challenges of workplace connection to be like next year and what do you believe will help?
Now is the Winter of Our Discontent
What can you do, to rekindle that sense of hope and optimism, to bolster your resilience and find a way to thrive in the time of a pandemic?
Has Covid-19 Put You at Higher Risk of Burnout?
The disruption of increased demands on personal and professional lives is taking a toll. Stress levels are rising and when there is little outlook of this reducing any time soon, this can quickly morph into loss of attention, increased distractibility, poor sleep, getting lost in the politics of the workplace, or dealing with toxic relationships.
Running on high levels of adrenaline and extra coffee does not make working additional hours under pressure sustainable or desirable. Too much adrenaline contributes to the emotional exhaustion where you can’t think, make a sensible decision or want to contribute.