Check your Stress Levels.

Check your Stress Levels.

Is stress affecting you? Occasional memory lapses can be caused by stress. If you are feeling stressed and anxious, try this quick test. It will help you decide if you need to moderate your lifestyle or seek further help. For each question, score yourself: Often = 2,...
8 Rules for Your Business Brain

8 Rules for Your Business Brain

You work long hours, right? Even longer sometimes to correct mistakes? Crazy, isn’t it! FACT Working non-stop = mistakes. FACT  Your brain can handle only five to six hours of hard mental work.  After that, deal with routine things like meetings (unless you are...
10 Habits for a Healthy Brain

10 Habits for a Healthy Brain

1. Find out about your brain and you can make the most of your brain powers. Knowing that your brain is a constantly-developing miracle with bil­lions of neu­rons and synapses will encourage you to take important steps to keep it flourishing.   2. Take care of...
How to be ‘mindful’.

How to be ‘mindful’.

Are you TOO busy? Starting to forget things you would usually remember? Feeling stresses and strains And unwell? ‘Mindfulness’ might be the answer for you. When did you last feel really quiet Peaceful Focused? Paying attention to what is happening for you...
Check your Stress Levels.

Six Ways to Manage Stress.

There’s good stress and bad stress. A deadline, for example, can be motivating if you are prepared, have all the research done and you are enjoying writing an article. That’s good. When a deadline is bad for us though is when it is looming, you are short...
Will poor sleep make me fat?

Will poor sleep make me fat?

Is this you? You didn’t sleep well last night. Or the night before. And the one before that. You tossed and turned and watched the clock creep round. And now you are dead beat. Too tired to make a real breakfast. You grab a coffee and a doughnut and race to work…….....