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.
It’s not sugar’s fault. Our brain needs glucose from the breakdown of vegetables and fruit as its primary source of energy. The problem is our overconsumption of refined sugar in processed foods that’s putting us at risk for obesity and cognitive decline
We spend over one third of our lives at work. Feeling good about our work is important because it impacts our mood, our energy, our thinking skills and discretionary effort. Studies have revealed often time it’s factors AT work that make us feel bad and we have to 60 bad days each year on average. In this blog I share some tips on how to find more good in your day at work.
Does hanger ever get in the way of your decision-making, social relationships or performance? Hanger is more than a response to a drop in blood sugar, it’s a complex emotional response.
While smartphone addiction doesn’t fall into the same category as alcohol or gambling, it is nevertheless very real. Which is why I applaud Apple’s coming IOS12, which acknowledges there is a place for a better, healthier balance between our gadgets and real life.
With too much to do, too little time and always thinking “what’s next?”, stress levels rise along
with negative emotions and self-talk that start to become our dominant narrative. Anxiety gets in the way of smart decision making, so how to reduce that risk?
Having a goal or following a dream provides us the motivation and aspiration to achieve what we want.
But how many times have you realised something’s holding you back? You’re just not nailing it.
Something’s afoot and sometimes we don’t know what this is, and sometimes we do, but don’t want to acknowledge it because it’s too big, too frightening or pushes us out of our comfort zone.
The biggest obstacle is often us and being afraid to let go.