How to Create Yourself an Extra Hour a Day This Sunday, October 25th, British Summer Time ends (I wonder if it even started this year?). Remember to put your clocks back one hour this Saturday night. It means lighter mornings but darker evenings. As the evenings draw shorter it doesn’t sound too positive, but I […]
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How to Reduce Stress It often feels like there is nothing you can do about stress; it’s simply part of life. However, learning to take control of your thoughts, schedule, and environment provides you with a sense of a balanced life with the resilience to hold up under pressure. Identifying the Source This first task
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Understanding Mental Health Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day. A day organised by the Mental Health Foundation to raise awareness and funds to help people struggling with their mental health. You can visit www.mentalhealth.org.uk to find out more. When we talk about mental health a lot of people are confused as to what we mean.
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Have an “Average” Day My mind works in unusual ways sometimes. As I write this I’m looking forward to a trip to Legoland tomorrow. In fact I’m not sure who is more excited, me or my 7 year old son Declan. We were chatting about what we thought it might be like and
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Unleash the Power of Persistence I read a news story this week that really made me smile. It was one of those stories that really made me stop and think about so many different things. It was a story about a football team in Carlisle, Harraby Athletic under 14’s. When the team was formed 3
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How to Embrace Change One of the things that people often tell me that they struggle with is change. Now, there can be no denying that with the shift in the global economic climate big changes are happening. Whether that be a loss of job, reduced income or relationship breakdown. However, it’s not just those
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How to Build-Self Confidence When we are going about our daily lives one of the most vital things can affect us is confidence, or the lack of it. We all need confidence from time to time to help us deal with whatever life throws at us, whether that be meeting new people, going for an
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We’ve all been there haven’t we? We set out with the greatest intentions to do something that will be of great benefit to us. It might be that new gym membership, a work project, a college course, quitting smoking or deciding that it’s about time we lost that extra stone we’ve been meaning to. Then
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We all have a set of beliefs for every area of our lives; whether that be money, success, relationships, body image, you name it we have beliefs about it. We learn our beliefs, either consciously or sub-consciously, as we grow up. Those beliefs are very powerful and shape the decisions that we make and/or limits
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I’m not quite sure where he’s got it from but from time to time my seven year old son declares that it should be “Opposite Day”. This is a topsy, turvy day when everything you say or do has to be the opposite. Hilarious to a seven year old! Today he has declared an Opposite
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