The Skills of Resilience Can Be Learned
The habits and skills of resilience can be acquired at any point in your life. All you need is the intention, and practice combined with self-awareness. When you are aware of how you think, feel and act, you have started on a path that will help you adapt and flourish. Building personal resilience focuses on five 'building blocks' each with a subset of personal characteristics: A Resilience attitude: Life as a learning process Optimistic outlook A proactive mindset A positive self-image Emotional resilience Self-awareness of one's emotions Emotional control, particularly ...
Successes Are Everywhere, If You Look Out For Them
Progress is happening all the time, you just have to look for it. I know that some people react against this, because it challenges their world view and they are uncomfortable with it.
How to Improve Sleep and Relearn Healthy Sleep Habits
It doesn’t take much to upset our sleep. But equally, if you go about it systematically, it doesn’t take much to restore healthy patterns and improve sleep.
Building Resilience, 5 Ways to a Better Life
This video explains the characteristics of resilience so you can begin to foster attitudes and habits in yourself which will boost your robustness and reduce the impact of stressful events.
Invisible Ceilings
Do you have a sort of 'inner dictator' that controls your behaviour without you realising it? I do, but I'm getting control and breaking through an invisible ceiling of my own making. Seeing some of my irrationality for what it is might help me to conquer it.
Free Gifts for Everyone – a Thought Experiment
The simplest and most treasured gifts are free, in monetary terms, that is. But would it still be Christmas? Just a thought experiment.
Is Happiness a Holy Grail?
Despite a multitude of books on the subject trying to be happy doesn't work. Achieving happiness is like the Holy Grail of personal development.
How to Adjust to Change
Resisting change is not only a waste of time, it also makes it harder to deal with. Following advice from other people is probably not the right way to go either (you can still read this though). Change can be difficult, but it needn't be as big a problem as we often make it.
Happy As a Pig In a Pink Jacket
No relevant goat videos have come way way of late, so here's an irrelevant moment of joy.
