If you’ve been feeling out of sorts lately – irritable, down, anxious – you are most likely suffering from Pandemic Fatigue. Pandemic Fatigue is an actual condition. If you think about it, look at what we’ve been facing for a good 18 months: Changes to how we do almost everything Not being able to plan […]
How to Manage the Meh of Covid
Let’s face it – most of us are feeling a little Meh about Covid. We’re locking down, closing borders, wearing masks and having our lives changed in subtle and not so subtle ways. And it looks like there’s no end in sight. Of course we feel a bit Meh sometimes. So here’s a list of […]
The Importance of Kindness
I quite often recommend John Gottman’s Marriage Minute to clients. It’s an email that comes maybe weekly or fortnightly and takes about a minute to read. Very helpful stuff for relationships. One of my clients who subscribed told me about one that I missed about killing it with kindness. Basically, no matter what, be kind […]
The One Thing You Need for Next Year
New Years and Better Humans We’re funny creatures, us humans. Landmarks in time are super important to us and can often inspire us to make important changes. As we approach the end of the year – and an especially challenging year at that – we often start looking for the meaning and significance this year […]
2020 Sh*ttest Year Ever? Here’s How to Make it Better
We are rapidly drawing the close of another year. Normally at this time I recommend reflecting on the year just gone but seriously – who wants to! There have been so many things that have been less than amazing to say the least. However, in amongst all of the crap, I’m betting you can find […]
Why You Should Challenge Yourself
Jon and I were talking the other day about dealing with life’s challenges. Jon made an interesting point. He said “You feel the same about what’s in front of you, regardless of the context.” In other words, the biggest challenge you’re facing now, will feel the same as the biggest challenge someone else is facing, […]
What to do with Worry
Unfortunately there are plenty of things for us to worry about these days. Covid-19, global warming, uncertain financial markets and all the little everyday things that we face (the ones that are too numerous to mention. Worry can wreak havoc in our lives. It can disturb our sleep, occupy our mind, impair our memory and […]
You Have 6200 Thoughts a Day – What Will You Do With Yours?
It is official: we have 6200 thoughts a day. A study from Queens University in Ontario measured how often we shifted from one thought to the next (through some very fancy scientific methods that we don’t need to go into here). They called each of these a thought worm. Unfortunately I’m quite visual and now […]
Keep Calm and Stay Resilient
So last time we talked about what resilience is and the 1st step in starting to create more resilience during these challenging times. This time we’re going to talk about how to calm the bleep down and keep our cool even when there’s a lot of crap going on. First of all we need […]
Keeping Resilient – Covid Style
Here we are knee deep in a pandemic. Who saw that coming? Of course, it has raised all sorts of mental health issues – from anxiety and depression to cabin fever and the negative effects of isolation. I will probably go into those and what to do about them at some stage, but for now […]
Surviving Isolation – more resources & how to manage loneliness
First let me give some resources that might be helpful during this time and then I’ll chat about loneliness and my take on it. So….. Coursera is offering a range of courses for free. There’s this one: Mind Control: Managing Your Mental Health During Covid-19. There are 4 sections on depression, anxiety, not OD’ing on […]
Motion vs Action
I was reading Atomic Habits by James Clear last week. There were lots of interesting things but there was one that really struck me – the concept of motion vs action. Basically, when we’re trying to get stuff done, we have 2 processes. Motion is the planning, researching, organising process. And the actual doing of […]
Why You Should Put Important Things First (rocks, pebbles, sand continued)
You might remember the rocks, pebbles, sand story from last time. If you haven’t read it read this 1st https://www.healgrowtransform.com.au/changing-mindsets/best-time-management-tool-for-making-you-happy/ or this won’t make sense. I promised I’d tell you the psychological reasons for making room for rocks first and why we get caught up in the smaller things instead. Firstly, we tend to get […]
Best Time Management Tool for Making You Happy
I have a story for you. “A philosophy professor stands in front of a class with a big glass jar. He puts rocks in the jar, right to the brim. He asks the class if the jar is full. Obviously they answer yes. He then puts pebbles in the jar, jiggles it a bit so […]
Believe it or Not: You Can Find Time
I read an article the other day that said the CEO of a very large company found the time to meditate for 2 hours a day. My 1st thought was that he mustn’t get much sleep. But as I read on it all started to make sense. He meditates whenever he can – in the […]
