How to Build Engagement and Vitality
Are you willing to invest energy in your work? Do you persist in the face of difficulty and give your full attention to your work when you are at work? Do you feel like your work matters? Do you care...
View ArticleEffective Decision Making
Sometimes we have to make important decisions where the ‘right’ answer is unclear. I would like to suggest this process for making for those tricker decisions: 1. Which of your values are relevant in...
View ArticleSuccessful People Often Feel Bad Too
For most of my adult life I have worked in roles where people told me the truth about how they felt. This privilege has meant that I know an important secret. The secret is that most of us have good...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Accepting Your Emotions and Treating Yourself Like A Child
Recently I was a bit upset. I was feeling sad, anxious and angry about a challenging situation in my life. I am not good with anger. My natural tendency is to fight it. I try to fix the feeling. My...
View ArticleWhy I Am Not As Empathic As I Want to Be
Last year, my daughter Ellie, had her wisdom teeth out. It was horrible. It is a painful and unpleasant procedure and, to make matters worse, Ellie has a needle phobia. Ellie felt terrified but she hid...
View ArticleWhy Happiness Makes Me Grumpy (aka: The Limitations of Aiming for a Happy...
Most serious positive psychology researchers would agree with the idea that happiness should not be an objective. But in my experience the message gets lost in translation, certainly among the many...
View ArticleLearning to Touch Fear
My daughter, Ellie, is training her horse to touch an object. Ellie points at the object and says the word ‘touch’ and her horse, Josie, touches it with her nose. This seems like an odd skill to train....
View ArticleWhat Can You Do When You Feel In Over Your Head?
Many leaders are feeling ‘in over their heads’. The organisational landscape has become volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) and it can often feel so challenging and overwhelming that we...
View ArticleThe Marginal Gains Handbook – Practical ideas to survive and thrive in the...
We are delighted to release VERSION 2 of this free, practical guide of evidence-based ways to survive and thrive in the age of Coronavirus. DOWNLOAD HERE This version includes improved ideas for...
View ArticleWhy Mental Health is About Going Back to Basics
When you invent the ship, you invent the shipwreck. Paul Virilio Ever since humans started rising up the food chain, our progress as a species has made our lives both easier and harder. Sure, we have...
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