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 the world that you are…
Let me help you overcome anxiety with an instant fix tool and a bit of joy Instant Anxiety Relief – ABC Tool If you have regularly suffered from anxiety, as I have on and off for years, I’ve developed an instant fix to help with anxiety which I call my ABC tool. So, what does ABC stand for? A is…
So if you are really serious about wanting to change your life, one of them, if not the best things that you can actually do for yourself is to create a morning exercise routine. And before you’ve grown, I will give you a bit of neuroscience that will help help you stick with it and understand why it is so…
Hi, change your life as if you’re watching this. It’s because you’re a bit curious about how to start your own Miracle morning routine. And this is the first step. This is meditation, and this is how I do it. And I’ve been doing it for exactly a year now. So the way I do it is I just do…
What are you celebrating in your life right now? Take a minute to think. Pausing to reflect on and celebrate our achievements before we move onto the next thing is not something we do often, but just for now, have a go. When we find something to celebrate, ‘I did manage to do a good presentation’, etc., we commonly focus…
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 psychologists believe there is a…
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 all experience at one time…
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 on the task or the…
How to control negative emotions Anger, fear and sadness. The three main categories of what we view as negative emotions. Now if like me you’ve been feeling some of these or a lot of this is over the last three weeks, know that there is a really effective technique of dealing with them, and we all tend to have a…
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 imposter syndrome or perfectionism, they’re…