Category: Well-being, Confidence & Communication at Work

Emotional Intelligence

The Magic of Emotional Intelligence: Your Key to Career Progress and Inner Calm

  15th November 2023

The Magic of Emotional Intelligence: Your Secret Ingredient for Career Growth and Inner Peace Hey there! I want to share with you something that can make such a difference to your career and personal sense of fulfilment: Emotional Intelligence (EI). You’ve likely heard about it, haven’t you? But I’m here to give you some nifty […]

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Meaningful life

Emotional Agility

  24th May 2021

The key to living a fulfilling life – Emotional Agility   How often have you regretted overreacting to a situation or ignoring your gut instinct? Did you stop to ask what your emotions were really telling you? Or did you feel shame for having uncomfortable emotions in the first place, that you should be grateful […]

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CHALLENGE

Challenge 2019

  1st January 2019

New Year Resolutions 2019 Forget about New Year Resolutions and challenge yourself in 2019 instead!  Swap punishing yourself for what you should be giving up and start having fun meeting a daily challenge. It’s all the rage for a reason. You can join in a community of like-minded people to support you to be held […]

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Happiness

3 Tips on the Basics that Underline Happiness

  30th March 2018

Basics of Human Happiness There are times in all of our lives when we feel something is not quite right. Sometimes we can put our finger directly on why we feel down, like when a relationship or career is struggling to meet our expectations. But there are times we are really not sure why our happiness levels are low […]

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Blue Monday

  15th January 2018

  Blue Monday is said to have been created in 2006 as an advertising mechanism to try and get us to treat ourselves to a nice holiday. The third Monday in January was chosen because of low bank balances after Christmas, dark and cold days, a return to the familiar routine of work and outside responsibilities, […]

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One Big Thing

  6th December 2016

I can get so wrapped up in day-to-day activities that long-term goals and life priorities can get put on the back burner. I am great at keeping to do list’s put priorities often shift, and things get put off for way longer than they need to. As quick as a flash, a few months have […]

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ACT

  18th April 2016

While attending a weekend training workshop on Acceptance Commitment Therapy recently in Dublin, I was struck yet again by how effective it can be to honestly examine what it is we value. It sounds obvious in a way, but when do most of us give ourselves the time to closely examine what is important to […]

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The Benefits of Upskilling

  1st June 2014

No job is secure, so it is up to you to ensure that you are marketable, not your employer. Hard hitting fact but true. In todays world each person can be seen as a brand in themselves with their own unique selling points, that can be taken with them no matter where they go. Thankfully […]

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How Self-limiting Beliefs hold us back

  1st March 2014

The nature of any belief is that once you adopt it you will tend to defend it and seek evidence to hold it to be true. If you believe you cannot, then you will make sure that you don’t succeed. You will find plenty of evidence to keep the belief alive. I was recently on […]

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New Years Resolutions

  1st January 2014

New Year’s resolutions, when I hear the word, I get an automatic feeling of guilt. Guilt for all the resolutions I have uttered and then failed miserably to see through. My resolutions have always been the bog standard: give up smoking and lose weight. Each new year, I would verbally punish myself for being in […]

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