This week’s mental sunshine is about creating something to help and inspire you during those less-inspiring times. How often do you read something in a book or article that really resonates with you… Do you turn the page and keep on reading and then try to remember it at a later date? This week’s tip is to actually […]
I hope you had a very hoppy Easter and managed to get a few days rest away from your usual daily routine. This week’s dose of mental sunshine is all about emojis… Being a visual person I do like to scatter a few here and there in my emails and text messages. It is said
How’s it going this week? Do you feel you’ve achieved much of value? This week’s dose of Mental Sunshine is all about excellence. I read an interesting piece from Tom Peters about excellence that I thought I might share with you here: Excellence is not a “long-term aspiration.” Excellence is the ultimate short-term strategy. EXCELLENCE
How are you today? How often do we answer that question with “ah, not bad!”? Well, this week’s dose of Mental Sunshine is all about flipping our language to make it more positive. So instead of “not bad” you could say “I’m good thank you” – a small change from negative to positive. Instead of
This week’s dose of Mental Sunshine is all about silence. How often do you get a bit of silence in your life? I don’t mean the accidental moments between tasks I mean a proper stop, taking some time to really rest your brain. Finding some silence is something we always put off until there’s time
Continuing with our recent theme of positive words, this week’s dose of mental sunshine is all about focus Now obviously with camera in hand I need to keep my lens focused on the talent in front of me as I coax and capture natural expressions. There are however so many different things that pull on
Are you happy today? For the last couple of weeks I’ve been sharing with you some of the words in my word cloud doc that I keep next to my desk. Seeing these words every day help to keep me motivated and are a constant conscious reminder for me to think of the positive. Today’s
In last week’s weekly dose of mental sunshine, I told you about the word cloud I keep close to my desk to keep me motivated. Today I want to look at a different word: POSITIVE. How can you be more positive in your life? Well, the answer is both simple and difficult. The fact is
How peaceful are you feeling this morning? I know, that’s a big question for a Thursday morning… I like to keep positive-feeling words and phrases on a word-cloud document near my desk. It helps to keep me motivated and reminds me of what I’m aiming for on a day-to-day basis. One of the phrases on
When was the last time you had a good celebration? Christmas? A birthday? An anniversary? When we’re children, there seems to be so many more things to celebrate. We go to endless friends’ birthday parties. There are special days at school. Sometimes it feels like there’s a celebration every week! However when we reach adulthood,
