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Maybe the most important connection you can ever make is with yourself. This might sound strange or a little like psychobabble, but I can assure you that it is your life’s work.
Great mental health is built on self awareness, honesty and authenticity. When you are true to yourself, and connected to your true nature, you will flourish in a way that you have never experienced before.
Learn more about the life changing impact of connecting to yourself.
One of the greatest sources of well-being is available to you all the time. This is the remarkable healing power of nature.
Our connection to nature is something we take for granted yet can uplift our mood and give us peace of mind whenever we want.
Think of how you feel when you walk through the woods, sit by a lake or watch a beautiful sunset. There is nothing like it.
I am sure you know how important family and friends are. But do you know just how vital they are to your mental health? Do you know that they are the number one contributor to a long and happy life?
Learn more about the power of connecting to other people, and about how to reap the many benefits for your mental and emotional well-being.
So many of us live in our heads and we are less connected to our other senses. This increases our stress and reduces our natural state of well-being and calm.
Good Mental Health is always available to you, and one of the simplest and most effective strategies is to make connections.
Turn off your Phone!
Are you addicted to your phone? Do you find it hard or even impossible to not check your phone regularly, or be separated from it for any length of time? If so, you might need a digital detox.
For years we have known that we are hooked on our phones, tablets, and laptops. What we are now learning is that this is bad for our performance, and for our mental health.
Learn more about why you need a Digital Detox and how to make it happen.
Monotasking is the opposite of Multitasking. It means focusing on one task at a time with all your attention and focus. This is in stark contrast to multitasking, that has been proven to reduce your effectiveness and productivity.
Learn about the dangers of multitasking, the benefits of monotasking, and how to do one thing at a time.
Your ability to get things done now, and not wait until tomorrow, is essential to your success. The problem is that this is easier said than done. For we all procrastinate, and, over time, this can have a damaging effect on our performance and even on our mental health.
Do it Now is not just a catchy slogan. It is also an important habit to cultivate, and you can find out how to achieve this here
When was the last time you stood back and thought about your life as a whole? Do you appreciate the gift of time, and do you reflect on how fleeting it is? In this week’s content I want to introduce you to a very important number that will help you realise how precious time is, and then remind you to live your life to the full and not waste any more time on activities that do not matter.
Your ability to pay attention is one of your most important capabilities, but our attention spans are shortening, and this has serious implications for every area of our lives. Find out how to increase your attention with proven tools and techniques.
Resilient people rarely take things personally and take criticism or rejection in their stride. This is an essential skill in sales, business and throughout life, at work and at home. Learn how to be calmer and more detached by watching this week's video and doing the practice.
Of all the skills you are learning in this program, your ability to bounce forward (come back stronger and better positioned for the future) is maybe one of the most important of all. Discover how to achieve this by watching this week's video and doing the practice.
The world is changing faster than ever before and there is nothing you or I can do about it. So, learning how to embrace change is more important now than ever before. In this week's practice, you will learn how to achieve this and reframe transformation, upheavals, and disruptions as genuine opportunities to learn and grow.
Emotions like sadness, grief or regret can be challenging and most of us would rather ignore or repress them. Most people find it difficult to feel their feelings and can struggle with self-awareness and emotional intelligence because we are not trained in this vital skill.
But what we resist persists, and these emotions will always be there, waiting to emerge later.
The average person has approximately 30,000 to 50,000 thoughts a day and research illustrates that many of these thoughts are repetitive, untrue, or not useful. Learn how to shift from thinking mode to being mode.
Deep Breathing is perhaps the simplest and certainly one of the most powerful techniques in our mental fitness program. Every system in our bodies depends on oxygen and learning how to breathe properly will help you in so many ways.
Mindfulness is one of the most popular practices in the world vindicated by many ancient traditions and modern neuroscience. In this week's practice, you will learn how to be more mindful, slow down and relax. Nothing is more important for good mental health and fitness.
We have an inbuilt negativity bias, which means we spend more time noticing what is wrong than what is right with our lives. We are like Velcro when it comes to negative experiences and Teflon when it comes to positive ones. The solution is to spend more time giving thanks, and this week's practice is the art of gratitude.
The stories you tell yourself and to other people profoundly shape how you live and experience the world.
We will go to great lengths to hold on to and defend our stories, even if they are irrational, limiting or even untrue. We often treat them as facts. We are unaware of our biases and convinced that our beliefs and explanations are true. There is no doubt in our mind that “he’s wrong”, “she’s right” or “they’re useless”. Often these stories impact our mental health.
Why do you feel up and down during the day? Why do your moods change? This week, you will learn how to understand and manage your moods more effectively. You will gain some powerful tools and techniques to feel more energised and engaged both at work and at home.
You might think that you will be happy when you double your income, get a bigger house, or take that world cruise you always dreamed of. The science of Positive Psychology suggests the opposite and proves that you can be happy now irrespective of your circumstances. Happiness is not the achievement of your goals but a choice you can make every day, and a skill that you can learn to improve your mental fitness.
Good mental fitness needs good physical fitness. In this week's practice, you will discover the big three physical factors that support your mental health - exercise, diet, and sleep. You will learn simple strategies to help you feel fitter and sleep better.
One of the biggest sources of stress is when we are inauthentic. It is exhausting and demoralizing to pretend to be someone we are not, or to hide our real selves behind a facade. Yet many of us do it and only show glimpses of who we really are. This week you will learn how to be more authentic and how it will improve your mental health.
Your mental fitness begins with self-awareness. But how well do you know yourself? Do you understand the habits, patterns of thinking and beliefs that impact how you feel and behave each day? This week you will learn a proven practice to help you know yourself better.
In this episode you will learn about the importance of Self-Care, and the key tools and strategies you need to feel and perform at your best.