Handing difficult people at work is never easy - particularly if you don’t even know where to begin. But rather than having to just put up with it - which makes you grind your teeth at night - there is a way to deal with it. And our Selina Brown is here with four practical strategies to help you. Mood hoovers...
Is work leaving you stressed? Wondering how on earth you can lower the levels of overwhelm and release some of the strain? Here’s some advice from our Head of Happiness, Stephanie Davies, to help you hack stress in the workplace and start viewing it in a completely different way. The stress epidemic A recent trip to the dentist confirmed that months...
How easy do you find it to form new habits? Do you manage to keep them up no matter what? Or are you someone who starts a new habit as if you’re Usain Bolt in his 100m heydey, only to finish a little like Derek Redmond, limping across the finish line? If you’re fed up with struggling to start and maintain...
Does a 4-day working week appeal to you? Wondering if there really are benefits or if it’s just an excuse for people to put their feet up? In this post, Laura Drury explores how the 4-day week might improve equality and mental health. Let’s start with the benefits and pitfalls of a 4-day working week There are many important awareness days...
Back in the day, it took me a while to get to grips with the explosion of social media. I’d only just worked out Friends Reunited when suddenly I was faced with a deluge of new and confusing ways to stalk my exes. MySpace, Flickr, Tumblr, and Facebook. I was confused, and for many years invited contacts to connect with me...
Worried about saying the wrong thing for fear of upsetting or offending someone? Our Doug feels the same, so he’s sharing his inner most worries - and a suggestion – and hopes you’ll forgive him if he says the wrong thing. Keeping up with an ever-changing world Like most of you I don’t want to upset or offend anyone. What I...
Who wasn’t worried by the news that Microsoft is so impressed with the latest artificial intelligence gizmo, ChatGPT, that it plans to invest billions in the technology in the coming years? What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is a language AI that writes convincing emails, essays, blogs; you name it. Some experts have already said that it could become such a game-changer that...
If only someone could have given Putin more cuddles when he was younger, taught him how to be human, and showed him how to have a bit of fun, he wouldn’t be exploiting the fear that he might press the nuclear button to mute people. When people feel they can’t say anything for fear of reprisal, views are pushed underground to...
Let them eat cake. Or maybe don’t? That’s the question The Food Standards chairperson posed when she likened cake culture to passive smoking. Now in the UK, we’ve had a bit of a history with cake-eating over the past couple of years, especially if there’s boozing and cake while you’re supposed to be keeping a low profile, eh, Boris… Back in...