Your Sleep Environment – Do You Like Where You Sleep?
If you suffer from poor sleep, before looking for complicated explanations and solutions, consider the simple stuff and start with the most obvious and basic. Do you like where you sleep?
Appreciation is the Best Motivation
Appreciation is an even better motivator than money, but it’s still rare to find gratitude around the workplace.
Yes-No Choices – Not Everything Is That Simple
The neat categorising and packaging of ideas and information is venerated in many of our world. Manipulative? Sure. And also respected, even sought after, but never adequate to cover all situations. Don't you agree, or perhaps you disagree?
Find a Guide
Whatever the problem, someone somewhere has had to deal with it before we do. It's useful to remember this; it provides perspective, and sometimes even, solutions. At the very least, realising that our ancestors went through similar stuff means we can draw on our species' collective wisdom.
When Turning Away Fails
There's a time to realise that doing what you've always done (yet again) might not be the best way forward. It goes against the grain, but that's probably the point.
Career Anxiety and A Kinder Philosophy of Success
Career anxiety – insecurity about life associated with work – will worry most of us at some stage of our lives. Alain de Botton relieves some of the pressure with this entertaining video.
What is ‘real’ conversation?
Most of our conversations work well, and a few don't, and these are the ones we tend to remember. We could learn more by reflecting on the exchanges that work, and using these four suggestions as a guide to having more healthy conversations.
More on Responding to Shouting…
Conflict causes misery and burns up energy that would otherwise used productively. But it doesn’t have to be like this. If you are involved in a dispute at work (or elsewhere) here are some things you can do to start to resolve it.
Over the Hill by 30? Think Again
"You're over the hill by 30" (Einstien). It takes 10k hours of study to excel (Gladwell) Or, think again! Good stuff, creativity, originality and success continue happening way into old age. Before falling in line with society's ageist propaganda, watch Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein. http://youtu.be/0tSCdNmd4BM
