Come January 1st, we are always interested in a New Year’s resolutions to clean up our health, particularly if it has been a VERY festive holiday season. The consumption of relentless alcohol, sugar and Christmas ham not only cause us to gain a few unwanted kilos, but we typically find ourselves addicted to sugar, fatigued and in a state that’s not all productive when it’s time to get back to work.

 

Becoming healthy is one of the most common resolutions, and for a good reason – without vibrant health and well being, how can we really begin to enjoy life to its fullest and achieve our personal goals.

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Another week and our routines stay similar, steady as she goes.
But before you know it the year will be over. You will look back and review what was achieved and what can be done differently for the following year.

The normal assessment will be focused on ‘did we/I really think differently or do anything differently? What would we do differently next year?’
But we can still make changes to effect that, there is still time in this year to change the outcome. We can either act now or wait until it is too late.

It’s interesting, when we actually focus on the future and ask, ‘if I keep doing it the same way what will be my results or needed outcomes actually be?’ This is the reality of our life, we wake up and we begin to think those 80,000 thoughts we have per day. The only problem is that they are usually the same thoughts that we thought yesterday, in reality we are thinking in the past.

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It can be a wonderful time of year, but also the most hectic time of year! The festive and holiday season is near.

It’s a time of year to have fun, to let go and enjoy some downtime from work. It can also be a time of year though when we throw in the towel of our healthy routines and goals.

This festive season, try sticking with your positive routines and health practices to feel restored and energised for the year ahead.

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With the end of any year brings the beginning of so much change in our own lives, however after 2020 the end of this year and the beginning of a new year brings momentous decisions about our health and our futures and how we want to live our lives.

The virus has propelled us and the world into a reality which requires us to look more deeply into everything. Politics, health and freedom of choice are all colliding in a world of confusing messages that is difficult to find the true meaning of it all on the surface of the information.

We are in a world of learning, where information flows and our own openness to it will define our ability to make very informed choices about our futures.

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The beginning of a new year heralds a unique opportunity to transform yourself and step into the next 12 months being whatever and whomever you decide. The gift of a new year brings deep reflection and introspection that amplifies the process of self-inquiry, expanding our emotional awareness.

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Since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in Australia, this disease has had a great impact on every aspect of Australian society. There is no doubt that COVID-19 has changed the way we live and work.

Similar to many other countries worldwide, nationwide measures such as quarantine, lockdown, and physical distancing were launched in response to the rising number of cases and deaths attributed to COVID-19. Although these measures have mitigated the spread COVID-19, they have also negatively affected the economy, employment, and public health.

With worries about future uncertainty, concern has been growing about the mental health sequelae of the COVID-19 crisis. Some experts are calling the hidden 'third wave' as mental illness.

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The Enneagram is a valuable tool to use in a coaching style of leadership. Our coaching style can be adapted to get the best out of the interaction, particularly in managing and developing performance. The following tips will be useful if you are a type 5 personality or if you have a staff member that is type 5. 

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Healthy eating to improve heart health, reduce diabetes, high blood pressure, is common knowledge now, but what about eating to help your mental state?

One of the most unrecognised factors in the development of mental health is the role of nutrition. The link between diet and mental health is growing as the field of Psychology expands.

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The Enneagram is a valuable tool to use in a coaching style of leadership. Our coaching style can be adapted to get the best out of the interaction, particularly in managing and developing performance. The following tips will be useful if you know the Enneagram type of your staff member.

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During this current bushfire and climate emergency, it’s important to look after the holistic health of yourself and loved ones. The images, stories and devastating effects of the bushfires may leave you feeling heavy with emotions ranging from distress to grief to helplessness. All emotions are valid.

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The Enneagram is a valuable tool to use in a coaching style of leadership. Our coaching style can be adapted to get the best out of the interaction, particularly in managing and developing performance. The following tips will be useful if you are a type 3 personality or if you have a staff member that is type 3. 

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There are only a few more days left of 2019 and with those few days comes the opportunity to reflect on the year that has been, and the one that is about to dawn.

Most of us are probably still reeling from the accelerated pace that December invariably brings - working through a variety of to do lists, wrapping up work projects, accommodating the school holidays, getting ready to celebrate Christmas in the style that everyone expects, and desperately trying to make time to catch up with friends and family.

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The Enneagram is a valuable tool to use in a coaching style of leadership. Our coaching style can be adapted to get the best out of the interaction, particularly in managing and developing performance. The following tips will be useful if you are a type 2 personality or if you have a staff member that is type 2.

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It’s getting to that time of year - the end of year busyness. If you are feeling stressed just at the thought of it, here are a few quick reminders and supports to implement in your daily routines to keep you centered, present and balanced.

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The Enneagram is a valuable tool to use in a coaching style of leadership. Our coaching style can be adapted to get the best out of the interaction, particularly in managing and developing performance. The following tips will be useful if you know are a type 1 personality or if you have a staff member that is type 1.

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We have all had those days where we feel everything goes smoothly. We are in the flow. We are meeting the challenges and demands of the day positively. We are solution-minded, creative, productive, happy and vibrant. 

Then we have the opposite - where things seem to go wrong, we are frantically juggling everything on our to-do list, feeling like there isn’t enough time in the day. We are overwhelmed, drained and fatigued. 

The difference in how your day feels has to do with your current state of physiology. It has to do with how resilient you are to life stressors and how well you can adapt to the constant pressures, challenges and the ever-changing environment of life. 

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In our travels and meeting so many people in workshops we are often given great suggestions for podcasts to listen to or good books to read. One of our clients recently recommended a podcast called One Head, Two Brains. I found this absolutely fascinating listening.

In this podcast, Iain McGilchrist (a psychiatrist, writer and former Oxford scholar) is interviewed about his book The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Bran and the Making of the Western World. He has been a neuroimaging researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and uses his research and clinical practice to explore the fraught question about the function of the right and the left hand sides of the brain.

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Have you ever stopped long enough to consider the light of your life?
Not the love of your life, but the light of your life. The spark within that ignites your whole world and fills it with vigor, joy and passion. That is your light.

We all enter this world with our own unique light. Yet as we grow, get busy, have families, and climb the corporate
ladder, juggling an ever-growing mountain of every day responsibilities, many of us become increasingly disconnected from that light. We lose touch with, and sight of, what really lights up our lives, relationships, and careers. Often to the detriment of the very things that form the nexus of what is most important to us.

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Did you know we are actually more non-human than human?! We carry up to 2 kg of microbes and have around 100 trillion of these microorganisms on or inside us. They outnumber our human cells by at least 10 to 1.

Did you know these microbes could be influencing your health?

Accumulating evidence demonstrates that a disturbed microbiota is not only linked with gut health disorders, but can potentially influence conditions like depression, obesity, epilepsy and more.

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As we grow and develop we find ourselves leading - ourselves and others - on a form of autopilot. Basing our motivations and resulting actions on the 'norm', 'best practice', 'leadership style' and any number of other current buzzwords that mandate how we should best go about the act of leading ourselves and others.

Over the course of our careers we can literally spend decades being someone else, conforming to expectations and social guidelines and failing to experience the absolute happiness that comes from the freedom of taking heart led action that is at one with our inner self.

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