Tag: health
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Six Questions for Success Part 3: What makes a job worth doing?
”If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.” This was the quote, printed in large font on a poster, in the class I used to study cookery in as a teenager. Every time I cooked anything (well, attempted to), there it was, staring back at me, hinting that I could probably do…
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Week 16: The ‘Plateau of Progress’ and how to handle it.
I’m not too sure why I put that phrase in some kind of quote marks. It’s not a quote that I know of but it sums up how I feel regarding my ongoing recovery. So let’s say that you’re aiming for something. An end point. An achievement of some kind. Big, small, short term long…
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Week 15: Having a problem reaching your goal? Why refocusing is the key.
What happens when we see danger ahead on the path towards our goal? Generally, we don’t like to feel like we have failed. Or perhaps worse still, feel like others see us as a failure. Goal setting is often used as a way of making us feel we are becoming better, more improved in some…
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Weeks 12, 13 and 14: Christmas Highs, New Year Lows, and how to use goals to recover your physical and mental health.
I’ve been learning how to walk again. This is a lengthy post about my recovery from a lower back/spine problem. I’ve added tips about how I manage recovery mentally and physically. The Christmas and New Year period were for me emotionally tough (first without my mother who passed last year), then very physically challenging. I…