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Eight Good Sleep Habits Of Insanely Successful People
Sleep used to be the filler between the waking hours and subject to the lottery of alarm calls, alcohol and infants. Developing good sleep habits was never part of a disciplined routine to help improve my performance or wellbeing. I now have a sleep ritual to develop...
Behavioural Change
4 Ways To Make Instant Changes To Your Behaviour I love the work of Benjamin P Hardy, the headline and first line of his post below resonated because I regularly espouse the benefits of making small incremental changes to your routine. I think the little steps are the...
How to feel more positive and see life clearer when you stop drinking
I met up with an old work colleague this morning after three years absence. As we swapped stories we realised that we had both stopped drinking alcohol several years ago and it has changed our lives. I was a moderately heavy drinker, generally spirits and wine when...
The Mindset Behind Academic Achievement: Mental Toughness
What does the research say? Research using the mental toughness model and the MTQ48 in education is relatively new. St Clair-Thompson, Bugler, Robinson, Clough, McGeown and Perry (2014) carried out three studies examining the relationship between mental toughness and...
Mentally Tough Teachers Cope Better with Challenging Students
Research undertaken in Northern Ireland shows that SEN teachers who score highly on mental toughness cope better with pupils who present challenging behaviour in the classroom. Stress and burnout, as a result of having to deal with challenging behaviour, is one of the...
Why Resolve Is At The Heart Of Mental Toughness
I got on the train to the city one day last week in time to hear two schoolboys, probably 16-17 years old, earnestly discussing an issue one of them was having with a fellow student. I wasn’t really listening but when one of them summarised his situation as “no...