Blog Posts
How laughing can protect you from the effects of stress.
More and more research shows that laughing can protect you from the effects of stress by inducing positive physical changes in your brain and body.
Trying to be something you’re not.
Over time, trying to be something you’re not can, I believe, be a key factor in creating burnout.
The chimp mind and the inner troll
The Inner Troll has a lot in common with the chimp mind. The big difference though is that the Inner Troll does NOT have your best interests at heart.
What causes burnout? It may not be what you think.
What causes burnout: it is vital to ask ourselves why our workload is so high and to what extent this is the result of choices we have made.
How does chaos serve you?
If you can’t find things on your desk, or you constantly forget to do things, or you can’t keep on top of your email inbox you are getting in your own way.
What stresses you out and how do you deal with it?
This week I asked a lot of teachers, coaches and educational professionals, ‘What stresses you out about your job, and how do you deal with it?’
Are other people driving you crazy?
We often can’t control what others around us are doing, but we can always choose how we respond to it.
What other people think of me is none of my business
If you often feel stressed, anxious or resentful it’s probably a sign that you care too much about other people’s judgements of you. Because you care, you find yourself keeping quiet about your true feelings, doing things you really don’t want to do and imagining that other people are (or might easily be) upset with you.
How to handle criticism
Why is it that we remember and focus on negative feedback or criticism so much more than praise? As with many things, we’re actually all wired that way.