Category: insights

An exploration of wearables that can positively impact mental health

The International Labour Organization (ILO) dedicates April 28th as World Day for Safety and Health at Work to honor and prevent work-related accidents and illnesses. With the 2023 theme being a Safe and Healthy Working Environment as a Fundamental Principle and Right at Work, organizations can create a cultural revolution by integrating health and safety into their functioning, developing risk management indicators, challenging the attachment of the function, and questioning the profile of their health and safety professionals.

Are you often exhausted when you get home after work? If your answer is yes, you may need a reframe.

The name The Miracle Morning comes originally from the book by the same name written by Hal Elrod. Hal has taken the ‘best practices’—developed over centuries of human consciousness development—and condensed the ‘best of the best’ into a daily morning ritual. A ritual that is now part of my day and thousands of others.

Most people think that resilience is simply the capacity to endure tough times, however it’s much more complex and powerful than that. Traditionally, workplaces attempt to address complex issues with isolated solutions, resulting in an ineffective, fragmented approach.

We sometimes overlook nature’s miracles, as we are so taken by our modern existence. Preoccupied with our agenda, train schedules, telephone, computer, and sales targets, we tend to forget how extraordinary planet Earth is.Excerpt from: “Resilience Quotient” by Alexia Michiels.

A study in Nature Human Behaviour published this week shows promise for mindfulness and positive psychology to improve mental states of wellbeing. As humans confront the changing environments we have created, we are failing to adapt. Despite massive investments, preventable physical, emotion and mental conditions continue to accelerate. We are not solving the challenge of wellbeing.

Antifragile is the ability to improve function or capability in the face of adversity—stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks or failures. For example, we found that resilience ratios increased rapidly just after Covid-19. Post-traumatic growth is expected as a normal response to adversity.

Successful parenting is a long, challenging journey filled with joy and despair. Our children grow into a storm of chaos, deceit and temptation. Unfortunately, evolution did not prepare our genes for this. Take your time to reflect on the following five tensions and see what improvements you can make in your parenting journey.

Of the most successful 10% of people in a sample of 21,000, 96% scored “my purpose in life is clear and meaningful” with ‘very often’ or ‘nearly always’.