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Posted on July 19, 2022 by Karen in anxiety, assertiveness, coaching, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, focus, growth mindset, happiness, Inner Champion, inner critic, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, personal development, positive thinking, self esteem, visualisation, workplace mental health, workplace training, workplace wellbeing. What is an inner champion? Before I answer the question about the difference between your inner champion and inner critic let me firstly refamiliarise you with the term inner critic: We all have an inner critic, but not all of us let it run riot. This relentless, negative self talk often expresses criticism, frustration […]
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Posted on April 22, 2022 by Karen in automatic negative thoughts, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, emotional intelligence, happiness, mindfulness, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, neuroscience, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, self esteem. How positive psychology can help you to increase your confidence Do you talk yourself out of achieving incredible things because you are scared you may not have what it takes? Does indecisiveness sometimes prevent you from fulfilling your dreams? Then these confidence building tools might help: We can often feel less confident when […]
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Posted on October 4, 2021 by Karen in anxiety, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, emotional intelligence, focus, growth mindset, happiness, mindfulness, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, neuroscience, New Year, panic attacks, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, self esteem, sleep, stress, visualisation, work-related stress. Does any of this sound familiar? For goodness sake, get a grip, woman. Don’t you know how lucky you are? You have zero right to be unhappy. Thousands are being murdered in Syria and you can’t even get out of bed, you self-indulgent cow. What happened to that fitness regime you promised you’d start, eh? […]
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Posted on March 10, 2021 by Karen in anxiety, assertiveness, boundary setting, coaching, confidence, confidence building, emotional intelligence, growth mindset, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, personal development, positive thinking, self care, stress, work-related stress. It’s a real struggle for business professionals in today’s fast paced, deadline and target driven workplace. One issue many employees have difficulties with is how to say “no nicely” to line Mangers when they are asked to take on extra work especially as their workload, and to do list is as long as the River […]
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Posted on December 16, 2020 by Karen in chimp paradox, christmas, coaching, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, emotional intelligence, growth mindset, happiness, mindfulness, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, neuroscience, the brain, visualisation. Struggling to come up with Christmas gift ideas? We live at a time when there are more self-help books on the market than any one person could hope to consume in a lifetime. But in today’s world, finding the time to read even one book, let alone a dozen, can still pose quite a challenge. […]
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Posted on January 6, 2020 by Karen in anxiety, automatic negative thoughts, chimp paradox, coach, coaching, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, emotional intelligence, growth mindset, mindfulness, neuroscience, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, procrastinating, scarcity mindset, self esteem, stress, visualisation, work-related stress. Why is it no matter how much time most people are given, they often finish jobs or tasks at the last minute and are left feeling completely stressed out? • Why is it that very high wage earners end up broke? • Why do organisations get stuck firefighting? • Why do the lonely find it […]
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Posted on October 12, 2019 by Karen in anxiety, automatic negative thoughts, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, Dr Paul Glibert, emotional intelligence, focus, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, neuroscience, personal development, positive thinking, self care, self esteem, top dog, work-related stress. Do you have a hectic lifestyle and want to make positive life changes but precious little time to make them? Over the next few months, I’ll be sharing with you the mindfulness, self help and personal development techniques and tips that helped me to: • escape the corporate cage, that is, my well-paid secure job […]
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Posted on June 3, 2019 by Karen in compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, neuroscience, personal development, positive thinking, self esteem, work-related stress. Digital transformation, globalisation, unprecedented competition, and shifting customer expectations are changing organisations. Employees are the most costly, complex and yet most precious resource of any organisation or business. Often though, they are the least comprehensible. Endemic stress and burnout account for a large proportion of workplace absence and represent a huge loss of national productivity. […]
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Posted on September 2, 2018 by Karen in coaching, compassionate mind, competence, confidence, confidence building, Conscious-Competence learning model, four stages competence, personal development, self esteem, visualisation. Most of you will be familiar with X Factor, a British television music competition show which began in 2004 to find new singing talent, contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. The majority of the general public would argue that it is an amazing show because it provides an ideal, equal and fair opportunity […]
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Posted on July 9, 2017 by Karen in automatic negative thoughts, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, emotional intelligence, happiness, inner critic, mindfulness, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, Uncategorized. Most of you may already know, however for those of you who are unfamiliar, the inner critic is your inner voice or negative chatterbox that often goes something like this: What’s wrong with me? I wish I was as confident as my friends Why can’t I get over this and get a grip? It’s ridiculous […]
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