Category Archives: focus

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  How to activate your inner champion

  Posted on January 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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  Workplace Mental Health tools

  Posted on January 10, 2022 by Karen in anxiety, boundary setting, coaching, confidence building, covid, emotional intelligence, focus, growth mindset, happiness, insomnia, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, neuroscience, personal development, positive thinking, self esteem, work-related stress, workplace mental health, workplace training, workplace wellbeing.
  

  Workplace Mental Health  Does any of this sound like you? Instead of feeling demotivated you want to feel more productive, passionate and enthusiastic about your work and home life? You want to feel less socially anxious or lonely and develop more meaningful connections with family, friends and work colleagues?  You’d like to feel less overwhelmed, […]

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  How the Power of Now can help you experience more happiness, peace of mind and success

  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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  Productivity tools for Professional Procrastinators

  Posted on August 19, 2021 by Karen in anxiety, automatic negative thoughts, chimp paradox, confidence building, emotional intelligence, focus, growth mindset, inner critic, mindfulness in the workplace, personal development, positive thinking, procrastinating, self care, stress, workplace mental health, workplace training, workplace wellbeing.
  

  Productivity Tools Productivity Tools can be really handy if you are prone to procrastinating. Most of us face the same challenges each day: too many tasks on our to do list and not enough time to complete them. Perhaps your inner dialogue goes something like this: “If I just focus on getting it all done, […]

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  The benefits of unplugging from social media

  Posted on July 18, 2021 by Karen in anxiety, boundary setting, emotional intelligence, focus, mindfulness, neuroscience, positive thinking, procrastinating.
  

  Social Media unplugging Inspired by Arianna Huffington’s book Thrive, I decided that whilst on holiday in Languedoc and Provence in 2018, and then again in 2019 whilst in Rome and 2020 in Dittisham, to unplug from all my social media platforms. More recently, I watched a documentary about Bill Gates and his “think weeks” where […]

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  How to improve decision making, reduce stress and improve your resilience and focus in the workplace using the chimp paradox model

  Posted on November 14, 2019 by Karen in anxiety, chimp paradox, coaching, emotional intelligence, focus, mindfulness, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, neuroscience, stress, visualisation, work-related stress.
  

  Does any of this sound like you? • I’d like to achieve even greater success levels in work and relationships • I want to become more productive, to procrastinate less, to make smarter use of my time and to consistently meet/exceed my targets • I’d like to enhance my leadership skills, to improve my communication […]

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  Tip Five: How to tame your inner critic, negative chatterbox and top dog – Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness tools for employers and for business

  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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  Tip One – How to achieve more focus at work – Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness tools for employers and for business

  Posted on May 10, 2019 by Karen in emotional intelligence, focus, happiness, mindfulness, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, neuroscience, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, procrastinating, the brain, visualisation, 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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  Exhausted and need to recharge your batteries ? How about treating yourself to a Pyjama Day this Easter weekend?

  Posted on April 9, 2019 by Karen in anxiety, focus, growth mindset, insomnia, mindfulness, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, neuroscience, personal development, self care.
  

  In our relentless overloaded world, we often feel depleted and more tired when we get up in the morning than when we go to bed. Our productivity levels and the quality of our work depreciates with speed. The quicker we approach tasks the more likely we are inclined to make errors. When we feel up […]

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  It’s National Bed Month 2018: so time to start learning about the importance of a good night’s sleep!

  Posted on March 22, 2018 by Karen in anxiety, automatic negative thoughts, emotional intelligence, focus, growth mindset, happiness, insomnia, mindfulness, neuroscience, positive affirmations, self care, sleep.
  

  Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer. It enhances your memory, makes you more attractive. It keeps you slim and lowers food cravings. It protects you from cancer and dementia. It wards off colds and flu. It lowers your risk of heart attacks and stroke, not to mention diabetes. You’ll […]

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