Mindfulness 2.0 – The Future of Mindfulness
My Granny died last month, aged 97. Good knock, Gran. It wasn’t such a sad death really, as the real essence of Granny that we all knew and loved had long disappeared. I wonder how much of our grief...
View ArticleIs Meaningful Success Possible Within an Organisation?
Working in a twenty-first century organisation can feel pretty bleak. Many employees describe feeling increasingly discouraged, disconnected and disengaged. They struggle to feel a sense of meaning or...
View ArticleTraps to Avoid On the Path to Success – Or Why You Can’t Have it All
Do you want to be successful? If you are like me, then your response to that question is, ‘Hmm...It depends‘. It depends on what ‘being successful’ means. We are surrounded by the message that success...
View ArticleAvoiding Stuckness With Values
[This is from a series of posts written by Rob Archer and Rachel Collis in reply to a reader who felt that values were actually keeping him stuck]. Right from the start, the ACT model made sense to me,...
View ArticleEverything is Dysfunctional: Applying Psychological Flexibility to Organisations
“But every organisation is dysfunctional!” I was describing the frustrations of running a small business to a friend who works in venture capital. In my mind I felt like the kind of dysfunction I was...
View ArticleWhat is Meaning in Work?
When I retrained to become a psychologist, my MSc research centred on meaning in work. That’s because my work to date (as a management consultant) had been pretty meaningless, which left me pretty...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Purpose Leads to Meaning in Life?
Steve Jobs once said that Apple’s mission was to ‘dent the universe’. That is, he was driven to affect or make a difference in the world above and beyond profit. Yet many people seem to have far more...
View ArticleA Guide to Lockdown for Other Parents, from a True Parenting Expert
Anyone who knows me or my children will know that I am definitely both a relationship and parenting expert. For example, before I proposed to my wife I felt I need to list all of my imperfections...
View ArticleThe Marginal Gains Handbook – Practical ideas to survive and thrive in the...
We are delighted to release VERSION 2 of this free, practical guide of evidence-based ways to survive and thrive in the age of Coronavirus. DOWNLOAD HERE This version includes improved ideas for...
View ArticleStep 1 for Success: Choose What You Value
If you were completely free to make your life about things that truly matter to you, what would they be? Pause and let that question sink in. Let the words settle within you…. If I was completely free...
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