Happiness and Wellbeing

15 Simple But Effective Ways to Improve your Mental Health

1 in 4 adults are likely to have a mental health problem in any given year, here are fifteen tips to help you with your own mental health.

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15 Simple But Effective Ways to Improve your Mental Health

Happiness and Wellbeing

The Madness of How We Work Now (Infographic)

Michael Hyatt recently published an infographic showing the madness of the crazy way in which we work nowadays with the ‘always on’ digital culture. Read More

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The Madness of How We Work Now (Infographic)

Happiness and Wellbeing

How to Adopt a Minimalist Lifestyle in Five Easy Steps

I use five fundamentals to help people to work through how they can ‘live more’ and the first one is Simplify. One of the ways you can simplify your life is to think about adopting a more minimalist lifestyle.
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How to Adopt a Minimalist Lifestyle in Five Easy Steps

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Is Ambition Killing Us?

Randomly came across this TEDx talk today; really like what he’s saying. It’s so important to be in the moment and find happiness along the journey, not to assume that it will all come to you when you ‘get there’.

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Is Ambition Killing Us?

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Bring Out Your Boxes – A Memorabilia Organising Strategy for the Whole Family

I am the proud mother of three sons and while my “littlest baby” is 25 years old, some of the trinkets, gifts, and art projects they made growing up can still be found on my shelves.
In fact, what is not on my shelves is neatly preserved in several tote bins which are lovingly stored in the attic, closets, and garage of my home.
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Bring Out Your Boxes – A Memorabilia Organising Strategy for the Whole Family

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How Does Stress Affect You and What Can You Do to De-Stress?

Stress is an interesting dichotomy. On the one hand we need some stress in a positive way to enable us to perform at our best. Think actors and sports people or maybe someone about to give a presentation. Without a level of positive stress they will probably not perform at their best.
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How Does Stress Affect You and What Can You Do to De-Stress?

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Standing Desks and Why You Should Consider Trying One

I posted a photo on Facebook this week of the recent adaptation to my ‘standing desk’, aka my book shelf! It prompted a fair amount of discussion so I thought I would blog on the topic this week.
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Standing Desks and Why You Should Consider Trying One

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TED Talk: The Art of Asking

I went to the theatre last night to see an event put on by the New Statesman with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. They edited this week’s edition of the New Statesman and entitled it ‘Saying the Unsayable’. The evening was a ‘celebration’ of the edition with music, poetry, discussion and readings.
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TED Talk: The Art of Asking

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Read to Stay Motivated to Make the Changes you Want to See

I’ve already talked on this blog about how much reading I do. Much of it involves self development blogs, articles and books as well as business books, other non-fiction and fiction. One of the reasons that I read so much (and listen to podcasts too) is to help me to work on things about me and my life that I want to change. It really helps to keep me focused, and being a ‘why?’ person it often helps me to stick at changing habits and activities by helping me to develop the underlying reason for doing something.
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Read to Stay Motivated to Make the Changes you Want to See