Mental Sunshine

When was the last time you learned something new? Yes, I know – this email is about Mental Sunshine and brightening your day, not going back to school! But bear with me! For many of us, once we’ve left school and perhaps trained in our chosen career, we don’t really learn new things any more Unless you count figuring out how to

I hope your day is going well so far. I’m just popping in with this week’s Mental Sunshine – a short email designed to help you to bring more mental sunshine into your life. This week I want to talk about the stories we tell ourselves. I bet you don’t even notice the amount of stories you tell yourself every single day – but we all do

This week’s Mental Sunshine is all about kindness. Next week (13th November) it’s World Kindness Day – so I thought now would be a good time to highlight the benefits of kindness. If you’re thinking, But John, surely kindness only benefits the person you’re kind to… you are mistaken! Yes, it’s true that if I do something kind for you, you

Well, the clocks have gone back; it’s Halloween… safe to say we’re heading towards winter fairly quickly! I know some people really struggle with the dark and the cold at this time of year. I like to think my weekly Mental Sunshine ideas provide you with a bank of ideas for ways to lift your mood a little. This week’s email is one of those ones that

This week’s Mental Sunshine is all about your comfort zone. It’s nice to be comfortable, right? So we could all be forgiven for thinking that if we stay within our comfort zone, that’s guaranteed to bring Mental Sunshine our way. Actually, the opposite is true. When we stay within our comfort zone, it shrinks around us. When we do something that takes us

Are you in need of a bit of Mental Sunshine to brighten things up a bit as we head into the weekend? This week’s tip is to embrace uncertainty. Typically, the human brain hates uncertainty. It will do anything to avoid it, often sabotaging situations just so that it can know what’s happening. It encourages us to avoid anything different –

How is your week going so far? I send these emails out each week in the hope of bringing a little Mental Sunshine into your day. It makes me feel good to think I might have brightened someone else’s day. That’s what this week’s email is all about – making it about someone else. We are all the star of our own epic movie. We walk

This week’s Mental Sunshine is all about listening to music – but I don’t mean your favourite band at all! In fact, the kind of music I’m going to suggest you listen to has no words… and probably won’t have a tune you can hum along to either. Have you heard of binaural beats before? Binaural beats are a phenomenon that happens when a different

With the equinox last weekend, and all the rain these past few days it’s feeling a lot more like autumn. Well, we might be missing the bright sunshine outside, but this email is all about bringing you some Mental Sunshine to improve your week. This week, it’s a tip I heard about from an interview

This week’s Mental Sunshine follows on from last week’s email – which was all about changing your thinking to consider, What could go right? The other side of thinking about what might go well in the future is the part where you look back over the day’s events. Be honest – when someone asks you