The next component of P.E.R.M.A. is Relationships. Over the past two weeks we have covered ‘Positive Emotions’ and ‘Engagement’, the first two vital components that contribute to happiness and wellbeing (Martin Seligman). Every relationship in our lives is important and contributes to whether we thrive or just survive. Whether we like it or not we cannot experience happiness and wellbeing…
Last week we began the exploration of P.E.R.M.A. as coined by Martin Seligman and his team in exploring the vital components that contribute to happiness and wellbeing. These components are Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Today we are looking at the Engagement component and how we can enhance this, grow and develop this with strength and authenticity so…
How about we shift the focus from Mental Illness to ‘What is good and optimistic in life’?! Sounds like a great way to shift individual and organisational thinking patterns to focus on flourishing and thriving instead of being absorbed in what’s wrong, what’s not working, and what people are doing poorly! Creating a shift in focus towards bringing out the…
When people come to us for career development, we tell them the most powerful thing they can do is commit to their own personal growth… and their career will inevitably take care of itself. Let me explain this further! The secret behind advancing your career, is to take responsibility for and commit to your own personal growth. This signifies progressing…
We begin our adventure as emotional beings as soon as we are born. Our experience through the dynamic breadth of feelings is with us until the day we depart the earth. The secret to a life of EMOTIONAL ILL-HEALTH OR A LIFE FULL OF EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING, is directly related to how well we handle the full breadth of our own…
Spirituality is not religiosity, it is not ethnicity, it is not about living in the spiritual realm and ignoring the actual realness of your day-to-day life. Every person has spirituality. It’s the thing that moves you or encourages you to express your inner energy. Every person whether we recognise it or not, expresses their spirituality in their public and private…
One of the reasons why we love working with you is because of the amazing things that we see you doing. The cutting edge technology that you bring to the world, the machines you create to detect cancer in the early stages, the stem cells that regrow parts of our body, the robotics that can substitute for lost limbs, the…
Sitting is the new smoking! Sitting too much will shorten your life span and diminish your quality of life. Sitting will kill you! We all know these facts however the puzzling question is: how is this still happening with today’s technology and ease of access to knowledge? We have a vast majority of the global population still being sedentary and…
How often do you say Yes, when you really want to say No? How often do you do what other people want, rather than following your own desires, values and beliefs? How often do you think something and then not say it because, you are scared you will not be heard or have your idea squashed? Often, we feel we…
Being Authentic is about who you BE, not what you do. What does this mean? For generations, we have been indoctrinated by the importance of status, what job we have, what role or title we have, the level of our income and the type of place we live in. Is this really what matters? Isn’t this more about perception which…