Boost your performance at work – by getting a good night’s sleep. After a bad night of not enough sleep, we often feel distracted and unable to concentrate. Recent studies have even suggested that to the brain sleep deprivation is ‘like drinking too much.’ Research at UCLA has found that sleep deprivation interferes with brain function at a cellular level, reducing the function and ability of cells to communicate with one another, with the result that compromises our mental performance. Normal everyday tasks are impacted, such as: reading, (and retaining that information) – how many times do you read and […]
Presenting with Confidence – Five Ways to Improve Your Public Speaking
Got a presentation coming up soon? How confident do you feel about it? Maybe you share the fear that so many people have – Glossophobia, or fear of public speaking. This can impact both your personal and professional life if it prevents you from taking risks to speak out and share your ideas. The symptoms of public speaking anxiety can include: Shaking Shortness of breath Dizziness An upset stomach A pounding heart Some people suffer weeks of worry and even loss of sleep, as the date for their presentation draws closer. If these symptoms sound familiar it because they are […]
Resolutions For 2019
Let me ask you a couple of quick questions. What New Year’s Resolutions did you make last year? Did you achieve them? Now if you answered ‘Yes’ to question 2, you probably already know how to successfully make changes in your life. But for many of us it can be a real puzzle. We start off the new year with a whole list (mistake number 1) of things we want to achieve, and then 7 days in we’ve already forgotten half of what we wanted to change (mistake number 2) and so we give up, thinking perhaps we can’t change […]
