A Guide to Preventing Cognitive Overload
Power-Down, Relax and unwind: A Guide to Preventing Cognitive Overload Powering-down is all about knowing the amount of hours you need to work (especially if you’re working for an organisation and need to put in at least eight-hour days), taking into consideration your age, and taking rests throughout that time – all to stop yourself ...
Keep Yourself in Check: The Importance of Emotional Self-Awareness
For a successful personal and professional life, it’s vital that you identify what makes you tick. Read on to learn how to discover emotional self-awareness and how to use your emotions to help your career. Aristotle is often quoted as stating that ‘Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom’. Indeed, the only person in ...
Perfectionism
Perfectionism and procrastination A compulsive drive to be flawless and the setting of unattainably high standards and goals (perfectionism) often goes hand in hand with imposter syndrome. Perfectionism is then combined with harsh self-criticism and disappointment and dissatisfaction when you are unable to reach those impossible ideals. I class myself as a ‘recovering perfectionist’. Some ...
Your Emotions
Because difficult emotions can be so unpleasant we often try and rid ourselves of them as quickly as possible (I know I did). But we can choose to change our emotions – even the difficult ones. If you do this, you will dramatically change your life. These difficult or ‘negative’ emotions are the ones we ...
Why is it important to take breaks
So you know the phrase work hard, play hard? Well, if that means anything to you and it certainly does to me then you might want to know what the scientists have discovered and have to say about that. Studies have shown that when you are constantly working, when you constantly have your head down ...
What’s the Kindest thing you can say to Yourself?
Positive things to say to yourself What’s the kindest thing you can say to yourself or do for yourself right here, right now? If like me you have a tendency to beat yourself up, ruminate on past failures or mistakes, never acknowledge what you have achieved what you are doing or if you suffer from ...
Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real
Fear is otherwise known as false evidence appearing real. And this is because all fear and anxious thoughts are about something that has not yet happened. And this is what spins us out and sends our brain into even more anxious thoughts because it cannot fix or solve this thing that we’re imagining because it ...
