When You Care for Others You Care for Yourself
"When you care for others, you are also taking care of yourself". This may sound trite, but it is the quickest way I know to chase sour thoughts and difficult feelings away. It also hooks us into something that, I hear, many people say they cannot do: it calms the mind.
Where to Find Meaning in Work and Life
If you've ever been faced with the question of how to find meaning in your work, you'll know it can feel like a challenge. Here are some ideas to give you direction.
Conflict is Inevitable, Fighting Isn’t
We can learn a lot from our successes, but when it comes to conflict and disagreement we are usually guided by misconceptions, unfounded anxiety, and our own (dodgy) perceptions.
The Vital Link Between Personal Boundaries and Values
Maintaining your personal boundaries and understanding your values are crucial for a balanced life. Boundaries and values are linked. Our values define or boundaries, and maintaining boundaries reinforces our values. This post, explains how your values and boundaries interconnect to create a life of integrity and balance.
Emotional Resilience: How to Bounce Back Stronger After Setbacks
Emotional resilience describes the ability to ‘bounce back’ in response to challenge, change or crisis. Resilience is built on learnable skills.
Healthy Relationships are Not Left to Chance
We tend to pay more attention to casual or business relationships than we do to those we depend on. Healthy relationships are vital to our wellbeing and so they need looking after. How do you maintain a relationship? Little and often.
How to Welcome Solitude for Balance and Peace
Meaningful time spent alone is as essential to our wellbeing. The pace and demands of 21st-century living leave little time for reflection, so opportunities to switch off and disconnect are few. Unless we take action to counteract it, the constant pressure inevitably shapes our lives and not for the better.
How to Flourish – Follow These Steps for Starters
When you flourish, you don't just exist, you thrive. It includes physical, mental and emotional health, for sure, but to flourish has a wider meaning. Wellbeing is intimately linked to how we feel we are doing in life. It is subjective, related to belief and experience, rather than conforming to some objective, measurable criteria. So, for example, you can feel well even if you are suffering from an illness, or you can be satisfied with your life, even amid turmoil challenging conditions (both of these have been confirmed by studies)....
The Power of the Small
Paying attention to those small, often fleeting details acts as an antidote to the world we have created. Rather than the headlong rush towards an uncertain outcome, seeing the details enables us to draw energy along the way, and even find joy in the mundane details we'd otherwise overlook.
