How to reduce stress by setting a daily focus

If you’ve read Barbara Fredrickson’s book titled Positivity, you’ll remember it promptly starts with two versions of her “start to the day”. She refers to these two versions as Take 1 and Take 2.

Mental wellbeing, Psychology, ThrivingMichelle Carlyle29 November 2017thriving, thinking, stress

Challenging limiting beliefs one ghost at a time

“Tread the path of haunted souls. As darkness descends over historic buildings, the burial ground and empty pathways … the time comes to encounter the ghosts of our site.”

Mental wellbeing, Resilience, ThrivingMichelle Carlyle31 October 2017thriving, beliefs, locus of control

Why lucky underpants will stop you thriving

Four leaf clovers, lucky underpants, or that special charm bracelet that grandma gave you. Do you really believe they bring you luck? Really?

Mental wellbeing, ThrivingMichelle Carlyle12 October 2017thriving, locus of control

If you're suffering from depression, your brain isn't broken

Most people suffering from depression and related conditions believe exactly as I did for many years; that there’s something fundamentally wrong with them. Some sort of misplaced connection that’s different to everyone else, like a badly-wired plug or a car with an intermittent fault that nobody else can experience or see but you.

Mental wellbeingMichelle Carlyle8 October 2017depression, thriving

How control helps us thrive

If you really dislike the feeling of being “out of control”, the chances are you have a high “desire for control”.

I'm too busy to learn to thrive

It’s not uncommon to hear “I’m so stressed but I’ve no time to do anything about it”. I hear that from new clients, friends, and family. They’d love to but “there aren’t enough hours in the day”. Familiar?

Mental wellbeingMichelle Carlyle13 September 2017thriving, thinking, stress

Are you chewing the cud too much?

Brooding. It's a bit like a cow chewing cud. You just keep turning that big lump of a thought around in your head over and over and over and over again.

Mental wellbeing, Psychology, ThrivingMichelle Carlyle31 August 2017thinking, habits, obsessive, brooding

Habit 12 from the 12 Habits of Resilient + Thriving People

Each week for 12 weeks, I’ll blog about one habit. And if you feel inclined, you can road test it for yourself. Habit 12 is about Enjoying Challenges.

How to overcome any fear. Just think of Alan.

I was beyond frightened. I had to eat something but my body was listening to my brain and my brain was saying “why are you doing this? what if you fail? why don’t you just pull out?” These mantras, fed by fear, were on a continuous loop.

Adult learners. How "in control" are you?

For adult learners, being on top of their studies and feeling like they’re in control of all those juggling balls they’ve got in the air (studies, work, family, health etc.) can feel great.

There’s a small trap though. They can’t control everything.

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