Reflections on a year in lockdown

Reflections on a year in lockdown

What five areas that have had a noticeable effect through a year of lockdowns on you personally and professionally. Mine are all different and each has had a very distinct impact on my life and those around me. The areas are relationships, the need to reboot, consumption, productivity and writing my next book – Mental Wealth. Relationships Many relationships have changed over the past year. Certain people have really stepped up and friendships have been…

Future Self

Future Self

What would your Future Self say to you today that could change your outlook or your trajectory and bring you closer to where you want to head? Don’t look back in anger is what the song lyrics say, why not look back with pride at the direction and clever thinking that you took now. Timeline theory or looking back from the future to where you are today can be scary stuff when considering what your…

What is Mental Wealth?

What is Mental Wealth?

Mental Wealth is a combination of mental health balanced with support, wellbeing, fitness, health, nutrition and diet. So many of us forget or neglect to look after ourselves and this makes us less wealthy. Many times, I have stated that isolation kills creativity and prevents decision making, which in turn can have a direct effect on your mental wealth. When you work or perform solely as an individual you risk a great deal of introspection,…

Look After the Extroverts

Look After the Extroverts

Many extroverts are the big noise and the big characters on a night out, but can often be the most fragile underneath. People suffering from mental health issues be they extroverts or introverts are often experts at concealing the challenges they’re facing from their nearest and dearest. Please, please, please ask better questions and challenge each other. If something doesn’t feel right, smell right, or seem right, then it’s your responsibility as a human being, a…

Uncomfortable Conversations

Uncomfortable Conversations

Often we are faced with the prospect of having to have an uncomfortable conversation. We can be guilty of avoiding saying what needs to be said and facing the truth of a situation full on. Sadly, by not having that conversation, situations can escalate, and conflict ensues further down the track. In recent times I have debated with clients, colleagues and family the challenges of uncomfortable conversations and how much it feels like conflict. Consider…

Headspace

Headspace

What is headspace? It’s time out from the normal, from the projects that keep your mind busy, from the routine activities and the abnormal. Where and how do you create an environment that allows your head to have some space? Headspace is about where you go to get space to think. At the end of a full-on day of face-to-face or Zoom meetings, you might leave your work thinking you’ve finished everything. But have you?…

Tips for My Younger Self

Tips for My Younger Self

What would you tell your younger self if you were able to provide a set of commandments, tips or just a best practice guide? Let’s be fair, I find myself telling these to my current self let alone a younger version. Intentionally I have excluded the advice I have in hindsight about never dating certain people or making sure I stayed in on a specific date as I’d get into trouble on that night!  Tips…

Cumulative Effect

Cumulative Effect

It’s incredible what the cumulative effect of action can have on your mental wellbeing and success in business and life. How is it possible that ten minutes or so of exercise every day can become pleasurable and have a direct impact on your performance in other areas of your life?? It is the cumulative effect of sticking to a daily discipline that changes the way you work. We know the compound effect of interest on…

Awesome All-Rounder

Awesome All-Rounder

Can being an all-rounder feel like failure when compared to the specialist? What makes someone an all-rounder and how important are they to have in your team? In many sports, they say it’s essential to have an all-rounder in your team because they can do a bit of everything. There are people in business, school or music, who do so many different things or can play so many instruments. They are good at everything, but…

20 Top Tips for Zoom

20 Top Tips for Zoom

You are embracing the new virtual world that we are working within and the technology and learning that is necessary to be the best for your business and personal success. Rarely has one piece of software become an overnight essential like Zoom – there are Google Hangouts, Skype and Teams plus several others but Zoom has just kicked into a different gear through this pandemic. Time to make sure we are doing it right! Through…