Loneliness increased 11% during the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered a mass social experiment into working from home. In June 2020, 64% of 3,279 professionals surveyed reported feeling lonely whilst working from home. This represents…
New report shows 73% of suffered burnout during pandemic
Burnout was a big problem even before the pandemic, but recent events have clearly exacerbated its effects. As a collective we are more stressed, unhappy, fearful, frustrated, bored and unhealthy…
Do we focus on what we want or don’t want?
The last couple of weeks have been every changing. Focus is one of my values and I am constantly reminding myself what do I want to focus on. What I…
Bias and paradigms – International Women’s Day
We all have a way of seeing life. We all have our pair of glasses that give us an unconscious bias. My mentor always used to say that you see…
How a standing desk has optimised my life
They say sitting is the new smoking. A study by the American Cancer Society published in 2018 in the American Journal of Epidemiology found a link between long periods of…
Why exercise cannot compensate for a bad diet
Many of us believe that as long as we burn calories through exercise it doesn’t matter what we eat. We might even hold the belief that the food we eat…
Why am I not losing weight?
Why am I not losing weight? This was the dilemma I had about 5-6 years ago. After a few years of indulging in cakes, pasta, frozen curly fries and copious…
How stress is affecting you even when you might not feel it
Stress is something that affects us more than ever. Some of us are keeping a brave front and announce with almost slight arrogance: “I don’t get stressed, I just get…
4 steps to beating fatigue
Feeling constantly tired, exhausted and even overwhelmed has become the new norm. So much so that we started to accept the status quo! I am not the only one when…
How to optimise your brain
Most of us believe that our IQ is possibly the most important characteristic that we poses. So if our brain is the biggest asset we have we should make sure…