Category Archives: personal development

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  How to activate your inner champion

  Posted on February 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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  Self Care Benefits

  Posted on December 14, 2021 by Karen in happiness, personal development, self care, work-related stress.
  

  Do you ever come across Christmas Spa Package ads like this?   Get away from it all with one of our blissful spa treat packages for two. Choose from a wide range of venues across the UK including Bannatyne’s and Marriott Spa, all offering a haven away from life’s stresses. From rejuvenating facials, immaculate manicures or […]

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  How to handle toxic people to increase your confidence

  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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  How to develop a Growth Mindset

  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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  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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  How to overcome Zoom Fatigue

  Posted on June 3, 2021 by Karen in anxiety, automatic negative thoughts, covid, emotional intelligence, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, personal development, positive thinking, work-related stress, workplace mental health, workplace training, workplace wellbeing, Zoom Fatigue.
  

  Zoom Fatigue   In my last blog, I highlighted the most common 2021 Workplace Mental Health issues such as zoom fatigue, boundary setting and demotivation and how evidence based Workplace Mental Health tools such as:   Positive psychology, mindfulness and emotional intelligence tools and strategies can really help you to overcome stress and burn out. […]

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  Workplace Resilience building: how to set healthier boundaries

  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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  Couch or Half Marathon Mindset ? You decide ……

  Posted on January 24, 2021 by Karen in anxiety, chimp paradox, coach, coaching, confidence building, growth mindset, happiness, inner critic, neuroscience, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, procrastinating, scarcity mindset, self care, self esteem, stress, visualisation.
  

  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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