The Mindful Leader – How to Be More Mindful
Mindfulness. It’s a bit of a buzz word these days in business and leadership. Build resilience through mindfulness. But what is it exactly? Mindfulness is an ancient Buddhist practice of simply observing one’s thoughts, emotions and actions and bodily sensations as they are happening in the present. Why is this useful and important? Mindfulness based…
The Problem with Vegan Diets
Yep, you saw that right. The problem with vegan diets. Coming from me! A vegan diet is one that abstains from eating any animal products. Meat (including Fish), Milk & other dairy, Eggs, honey (and then usually if you’re vegan you won’t wear leather or use animal tested products). All good stuff in my book.…
Five Favourite Things – August 2016
And so summer is in full swing. And let’s get started with some things I use in my life which help me feel superhuman! 1. Soapnuts Yep, until recently I’d never heard of them either. They are natural ‘nuts’ that you can use to wash your clothes! Why? Because they are kinder on your clothes and…
BOOK OF THE MONTH: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?
This month’s book of the month also details what could be the most important health discovery ever. It’s called Earthing, by Clint Ober. I first read it a couple of years ago and the idea fascinated me. It’s about Earthing (or Grounding, as it’s also known). The idea being that we can get many…
PODCAST INTERVIEW: Health, Leadership & Becoming SUPERHUMAN with Hari Kalymnios
PODCAST INTERVIEW: Health, Leadership & Becoming SUPERHUMAN with Hari Kalymnios Recently I was interviewed on my second ever podcast by host Ben Cattaneo who has the podcast “All Things Risk”. He also works full time and does the podcast as a labour of love. Here’s the episode below. Sign up at http://thethoughtgym.com to start…
JULY Favourite Things to Help you Feel SUPER!
It’s July and this month, like every month, I’m sharing with you a few items that I use to help improve my life in some small way. Let’s crack on with the list. 1) Buttafly Meditation Cushion I bought this a couple of months ago because for some time I had been looking for something…
Favourite / Cool Things for June
This post is – as I have been doing once a month for 2016 – about a few items that will help improve your life in some small way. I’m continually looking for things that are going to make me a better person, leader and performer and so, while some of these things might look…
Leaders Are Readers: June Book of the Month
All leaders are readers. Well, maybe not all. But many of the best ones certainly are in my experience. And this month I want to share with you a book that may have been a little controversial at the time. Or certainly the topic was controversial when the author was first presenting it (many years…
Super Juice for a Super Start to the Day
It seems that juicing is all over the place today. But the thing is, if you buy a store bought juice (especially if it’s made elsewhere – i.e. not fresh on the property) chances are you are doing yourself a big disservice. Those kind of juices are laden with sugars (even if natural!), pasteurised and…
Being Overweight Leads to a Smaller…….
…Brain! That’s according to one leading psychiatrist – Dr Daniel Amen. We all know that being overweight comes with a host of health and physical related issues. Dr Amen suggests, through analysis of 70,000+ brain scans using SPECT technology (which stands for Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography), that as you get more overweight, you tend…
