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24 Words of Wisdom for Working Parents
24) Closed for Human Maintenance.
If there has been one common theme of our advent calendar this year it is that we all need downtime, refresh time, reboot time. This serves our mental and physical health and also makes us smarter...
23) The smallest of actions can lead to the biggest outcomes.
If we want to change something about our life we are much more likely to have success if we start small rather than pledge to make a drastic and unrealistic change. Micro habits are minuscule...
22) Busy is not a badge of honour.
How are you? Person 1: Really busy. Work is crazy, we are redecorating the living room, the kids are full on and I’m learning Chinese in my spare time Person 2: Really good. I have been working...
Thoughts in a 2-Minute Read
Coaching & Nature
Be honest: How much time do you spend staring at a screen each day? Our increasing reliance on technology means many of us are spending ever less time outdoors—even as we have shown this week that...
Digital nature as proxy for real nature
A large body of research exists on the psychological and physiological benefits of interaction with nature. However, getting out in nature isn’t always viable. Digital nature which allows us to...
A solution to virtual meeting fatigue
A new study from Microsoft’s Human Factors Lab explains why back-to-back virtual meetings drain us and how important a short 10 minute break can be to alleviate build-up of stress. The study...
Reading
Professional Troublemaker by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Today we are recommending Professional Troublemaker by Luvvie Ajayi Jones. If you have seen her TedTalk and read her first bestseller, you’ll know that Luvvie Ajayi Jones is a superb speaker and...
More Than A Woman: Caitlin Moran
Humour is so important- it doesn't just lighten your load mentally, it actually induces physical changes in your body. Laughter enhances your intake of oxygen-rich air, stimulates your heart, lungs...
The Time Paradox by John Boyd and Philip Zimbardo
If there is one thing that working parents don't have enough of it is time. Forever chasing the unforgiving minute, needed in more than one place at the same time, multitasking, juggling and so on....
Watching
Esther Perel on work relationships
Relationships at work are critical to our success and happiness. In this clip Esther Perel, one of the worlds foremost experts on relational dynamics, explores relational intelligence at work....
The University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre: Changing Modes After Work.
We are recommending this 4-minute ditty from The University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre called Changing Modes After Work. We often remind our coaching clients that the single most effective...
Optimising the Performance of the Human Mind: Steve Peters at TEDxYouth
You may be familiar with the best selling Chimp Paradox by - get a top up in 13 minutes by watching Dr Steve Peters explain the theory of the Chimp paradox that some of us know as the Inner critic....
Listening
The Psychology Podcast
If you do get an hour to yourself a brilliant podcast to listen to is the Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman. The podcast has great interviews, including a study of greatness,...
Everything Under the Sun Podcast
Children have a unique ability to ask brilliant and often unanswerable questions. On the Everything Under The Sun podcast, Molly Oldfield, question writer on BBC show QI, sets about to answer these...
Life Kit: Parenting: What To Tell Kids When The News Is Scary
This NPR podcast was produced pre pandemic but with so much scary news around right now it has universal advice for talking about scary times. The examples may not be applicable to your family but...
