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Posted on November 22, 2021 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 November 3, 2021 by Karen in anxiety, automatic negative thoughts, chimp paradox, confidence building, growth mindset, happiness, loneliness, mindfulness, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, neuroscience, New Year, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, procrastinating, scarcity mindset, self care, stress, work-related stress, workplace mental health, workplace wellbeing. Growth Mindset So what are the origins of a Growth Mindset? As it’s Autumn (often referred to as the season of renewal) and we move closer to 2022, it’s often worth taking stock and considering: Why is it that very high wage earners end up broke? Why is it no matter how much time most […]
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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 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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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 20, 2020 by Karen in emotional intelligence, happiness, mindfulness, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, visualisation. Aren’t Januarys tough sometimes? what with post Christmas blues and cold dark nights? Back by popular demand, this video I shot a few years ago, shows how mindfulness can help you with Blue Monday. Mindfulness can also help you to reduce and overcome anger outbursts, stress, panic attacks, anxiety, depression, negative thinking patterns, high […]
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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 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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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 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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