by Helen Kain | Living on Purpose
How am I doing right now? Am I winning? Moving forward, or treading water? Good questions. How do we know? To live life on purpose, instead of by accident, we need to get really clear on what we are striving toward. What ideal looks like. Every one of us is...
by Helen Kain | Living on Purpose, Motivation, Values
We are born to strive. And to thrive. But strive towards what, exactly? Innately gifted to succeed against adversity, we rise to the challenge again and again. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and weigh back in. Our biggest challenge is picking the right...
by Helen Kain | Focus, Home, Mental Fitness, Mind/Body Connection, Self-Control, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries, The Mind, Willpower
Devices. Our beloved Devices. The siren call of an arriving text or email captures our attention even when we know we should be concentrating on the task at hand. We sneak a peek at dangerous or inopportune times, whilst driving, for example, or reading to our...
by Gordon Parry | Career, Home, Mastery
I’m expected to perform at ever-higher levels at work. My spouse is on my case because I’m rarely home, and when I am, I’m not really present. We’re shuffling the kids from one activity to another, meals are taken on the run, and I can’t remember the last time I had...
by Helen Kain | ADHD, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Changing our Minds, Disorders, Home, Mental Fitness, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries, The Mind
When most of us think about mental health, we ascribe its presence or absence largely to luck or having good genes. We vaguely (or actively) dread the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s and cross our fingers it doesn’t happen to us. Well, there is a whole lot of good...
