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6 Easy Ways To Stay Calm
Okay, I admit the title of this post may be misleading because whilst these 6 ways to stay calm are easy to understand, they are much harder to adopt as part of your ongoing persona. One of the key characteristics and strengths of mentally tough people is that they...
Why You Need To Be Mentally Tough Today
I have had different conversations with two close friends in the past few weeks. Both had experienced a series of personal and work related setbacks of a roughly similar magnitude. I could personally relate to both situations and also personally relate to their...
How To Turn Your Dreams Into Reality
I’m envious of Henrik Edberg and not just because he lives on the west coast of Sweden. He also writes in a beautifully practical style about simplifying life and making things happen. Here is one article of Henrik’s I really like about adopting routines that can make...
Mental Toughness and its relationship with Fatigue
Often raised as an issue in the workplace and often associated with workload or pressure, tiredness or fatigue is one of the most common complaints that Doctors come across in the surgeries. According to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, at any given time, one in...
Which Is More Important – Courage or Confidence?
Confidence and being confident is such an important and magical quality because it gives you added self-belief in your ability to succeed and make good things happen. If you don’t have it, you want some. If you have lost it, you want it back and if you have it...
What’s Your Mantra? and Why You Need One
I was a shy, spotty, gangly and goofy teenager when I read a quote that changed my life forever. It was one of many by brilliant Irish playwright and poet, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, but this one became my lifetime mantra. “Be yourself, everyone else is...