How will this 7 day challenge of 100% positivity make your life better
Develop positivity for productivity, peace of mind, energy and happiness! Start the one week positivity challenge with me today — that is only 7 days, not too long a time to keep to it but it can be the start of a life changing experience.
3 tips for using your strengths for positive change with minimum stress
Changing to bring more of your passions and inner dreams to the fore, creating more fulfilment in your life is fabulous – However, we often stress about the transition to this wonderful state
When a New Door Opens…
Something was in the air – totally unexpected and unplanned!
Most definitely a new door had opened up in front of me… Very scary, very tempting and very much pushing past the comfort zone… What should I do? What would you do?
The link between mind and body
Do you know some of the problems that we can have when our body and mind connection is out of sync? The mind-body connection can be a vicious or a virtuous circle! And, guess what, we can choose how we influence this for the better… Don’t we all want to live a happier, healthier, bouncier life?
Sleep, essential for your Success
I have been suffering from exhaustion recently, I was so tired I was getting dizzy spells – not good for anyone – and definitely not good for me! I know full well the dangers and problems of not getting enough sleep, I coach people on it for goodness sake, so why wasn’t I listening to my own pearls of wisdom?
Balancing Negativity
Bad news people – our brains naturally have a negative bias! BUT the good news, we can change that and balance out our mind and the way the brain thinks. How can we do that? Well….
Dealing with stress and anxiety through wellness
During 2019 79% of workers experienced stress at work resulting in sleeping problems, reduced confidence, low motivation and less time at work. Why does focusing on wellness help us? Because if we approach wellness properly, we achieve physical, mental and emotional balance…
Channel your mind for Success
“When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.”
– Shannon L Alder
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3 tips on How to use Body Energy to Dynamise your Life
“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.”
– Tony Robbins
Working Abroad
The advantages? Cultural, financial, personal satisfaction and vastly enhanced career opportunities
The benefits are numerous: visiting a new country, discovering a new culture, often learning a new language, meeting some truly wonderful people, making lifelong friends and normally giving your career a real boost as well! Not
3 quick tips to stoke up the Success Engine!
You may think this is off point – you want to be the one who has it all… the super hero overflowing with freedom and fulfilment and success in your career and life! Congratulations for your motivation and dynamic vision. But how??
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
For me, its the psychology behind acquiring real ease, fluency, comfort and being at home in another language – not just stepping into their shoes and becoming a native, but feeling so at ease that its like putting your slippers on. I was trained by the great man himself, and really did have the experience of seeing him with several different pairs of slippers, each of which he slipped on with equal ease and comfort!
How Mind-Body Health Increases Success
Do you consider yourself successful? What do you think helps to be a success? Apart from skills, talents and knowledge what is the key to being able to perform and do well, achieve your objectives and have ever better results? The absolute fundamental, can’t-do-without, essential is good mind-body health!
How Nutrition can impact your Success
‘The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.’
— Ann Wigmore
Improving workplace mentality with a more holistic approach
Holistic wellness and success should be every person’s and every company’s main objective and value in this crazy, pressured, but still beautiful, world we live in. BUT what is holistic?
Working Successfully in an International Market
To work successfully in an international market most people think you just need to learn the language and have a better price – WRONG!
What you need is so very different…
Have you the time – 5 ways to fit mindfulness into your daily routine
Often, we think that mindfulness would be interesting and a good idea to start doing but on top of all our current commitments it can sometimes seem like adding to our load rather than helping us become more relaxed and positive. It doesn’t need to be like this!
Language Learning Beliefs
Beliefs, Modelling and Motivation… Do you know what yours are?
Here are some brief insights into thought-provoking exercises and techniques to successfully overcome barriers, facilitate fluency and find your goals and motivations to really gain momentum in language learning
The importance of daily mindfulness
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.” – Jack Kornfield
Everyone bangs on about mindfulness and too much time spent on mobile phones, laptops, electronic gadgets etc but I honestly think that many of you, being younger than me, simply don’t have any concept of life without these
A Reverse Wake-UP Call!
A short piece in a major Sunday newspaper caught my eye with the heading ‘Retail boss blames her insomnia on email’. The item goes on to begin, ‘One of Britain’s leading businesswomen reveals today that she had to seek the help of a psychologist to cure her insomnia’.
More time – less stress… The magic key to your success!
How many of us say I’ll do it tomorrow. Then the next day, Oh I haven’t enough time, it’s too big a project, it’s complicated, I just need to finish this first, and I’ll do it tomorrow. – Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week!
What Have You Done Right?
Do you normally think about what you have done right and pat yourself on the back or beat yourself up for all the ‘wrong’ things that happen?
Does grumpy sometimes become your middle name?
Well….
The Chameleon
I met the ultimate language fluency chameleon in the creator of OPAL – I had the enormous good fortune to study under, and be trained by, the man himself…
Listening to him, watching him, his culture, his attitude, his movement, I swear he is an American, then a Brazilian, then a Frenchman… I am so confused!
Why is success so much better, quicker and higher when it’s 4-dimensional?
How can you achieve the success you are aiming for better, quicker and higher?
Seriously? By focusing on all 4 dimensions… and what are they?
Mindfulness vs Medication
DO THIS: Focus on ‘living in the now’, ‘keeping your thoughts in the present’, focusing on the here and now’, ‘appreciating the present moment’.
STOP THIS: Feeling regret / guilt about the past that can’t be changed – Too late, they have already been and gone! Don’t invent potential disastrous consequences for what might (and extremely probably won’t) happen in the future.
Integration or Repudiation
Who wants to spend time with someone they don’t understand, who refuses to accept their way of life, their beliefs, their taboos, their evaluation of socially correct behaviour, their interests, their traditions, their heritage AND their humour!
Step into their Shoes, Become a Native
Literally “step into the shoes” of a native speaker in order to pick up the relevant verbal and non verbal aspects involved in producing quality output in the language.
Exercise for Success – It really works!
The engine is your body… it is like a piece of machinery, therefore it needs to work well not be corroded and badly maintained. All parts need to be cared for on a regular basis…
How can we Manage Stress and Cope with our Comfort Zones
Some days it can be more difficult to go beyond the stress but that is usually when pushing the comfort zone as well.
We all get uptight and have sleepless nights, worries, doubts and feel destabilised.
How can we best face these situations in life?
Get By, Fluent or Bilingual
Get by, fluent or bilingual? What’s the difference?
Fluency – what does it mean? Is it the language or is it also the culture, values and beliefs?
And what is the key?
