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The festive season is over and while some of us are still recovering from the holidays and celebrations, we have a blank canvas of events to design over the next 12 months. Why so early ? Research shows that when events are planned in advance, it helps achieve the goals you've set for the year ahead ...
It's that time of year again. New Year's resolutions for all the things we have procrastinated, avoided, run away from or just couldn't be bothered to make time for. Getting fit, stopping smoking, cutting down on sugars or alcohol are your typical personal goals, with taking that course, learning a new skill, going for that ...
Wouldn’t we all like to be the next Steve Jobs, or create a world-changing product or invention? However we often label ourselves as non-creative people or limit our potential because we don’t know where to start going about innovation. According to Simon Clarkson, creativity is within us all, and through a number of learnt tools, ...
If you could bottle it, Motivation would be the best selling product on any shelf, because it is the fuel for all achievement. Unfortunately most people attribute motivation to a character trait or personality. We describe motivated people as though it were something they uploaded to their brain, without much understanding of where it comes ...
Listen to the radio interview with Nathan Farrugia on The Entrepreneur Clinic with Monique Chambers on "how to find motivation" though the trials and tribulations of starting up your business. Learn how to light your FIRE, use mindfulness to stay in control of your emotions, and help your teams stay focussed. Listen to the audio file here
Despite the huge investment in employee training, increasing salaries and bonuses, increasing investment in qualifications and technical abilities; surveys still show that over 70% of your average workforce are dis-engaged, with a number of people "actively dis-engaged" growing rapidly. When you consider the fact that someone who is actively dis-engaged is not only wasting the ...
Our associate, nutrition therapist Christine, gives us some simple hints to reflect our ageing state and family demands when it comes to taking care of ourselves and our loved ones. If you eat a healthy diet and get plenty of exercise, staying slim should follow naturally – in theory. In practice, different pitfalls at various stages of ...
So we've gone round in circles with dietary fats, starting with demonising animal fats and suggesting that margarine is the healthiest option, to now demonising margarine and other unsaturated fats as the major cause of heart disease from a nutritional standpoint, bringing back the saturated fats in moderate doses. So I guess we now have to ...
I'm sure you've all heard the expression about a top athlete 'being in the zone' or 'on fire' during a game or event when they are just performing way above their already high performing average. It's a pleasure to watch an 'unstoppable' Nadal when he's in such a state of play, literally hitting every shot ...
Self-awareness is one of the most critical aspects of leadership - indeed it is the first step of any leadership, without which you cannot even begin to expect anyone else to follow you - but sometimes we overanalyse things a little. My impression, after reading hundreds (or thousands) of interviews with top performers from every ...