How to start your day!
Start right! we are going to be productive throughout the day how we start our day is crucial in setting ourselves up with the right frame of mind. Too simple? Well, neuroscience...
Forming our views; Rishi, social workers, and primates.
In the caring professions our experiences are the cornerstone of our practice, setting our moral compass and future decision-making processes (heuristics). Despite each individual experience being important our brains are designed to...
10 things to make 2023 great!
2023 is set to be a great year don’t you think! There are some things that I need to absolutely focus on! There are some things I need to do better and...
On the Shelf
On the Shelf was conceived after a number of conversations where students told Stephen that they would love to get up close to his book shelves and see what was on there!...
7 small steps that could lead to big things
Last week I stumbled across a great Twitter thread by Dr. Nicole LePera (@Theholisticpsychttps) while I was pondering self-care, well-being and reflection… you know the usual stuff I ponder. She is a...
Getting into ‘flow’.
January 24th 1975: The Koln Opera House Keith and Vera stood on the stage just looking at the piano wondering what could possibly be done. It wasn’t the right one and it...
Modern Life is Rubbish
I left the record store clutching the CD in my hands. It was the second instalment from Britpop idols Blur in the form of their latest studio album. They hadn’t yet hit...
Working at home…. with the children!
It always sparks my interest when I’m delivering presentations about productivity and someone asks me a question that causes me to fumble for an ineffective answer! This happened just this week when...
Work harder in the troughs
For all of us I’d imagine, or most of us at least, the amount of work we have to do moment to moment or day to day or week to week fluctuates....