Such thoughts bring with them emotions extending from disappointment to shame, feelings ranging from mild anxiety to fear, and frustrations fluctuating from mild irritation to anger. Some of you may be worried where it will all end. As one friend told me "It's not like when David Bowie died and you were really upset for a few days but got over by listening to
Ashes to Ashes and
Life on Mars. The consequences of Brexit will be with us forever."
Long ago, a group of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers devised an excellent life philosophy - Stoicism - to help them deal with
adversities worse than Brexit. In this post I will describe
5 Stoic strategies to help you handle Brexit.Read the full post here
A few years ago a friend said to me "Tim, you've been working with clients and students for many years, you've been putting together some great ideas from psychology and philosophy, why don't you put down what you've learnt in a way that we can all understand?"
This seemed such a nice idea that I spent the next 18 months doing what he'd suggested, and the result was
Achieve Your Potential with Positive Psychology.A few weeks ago the same friend said to me "Tim, I got your book, I like it, it's great". This was good, but to be honest I didn't write the book just to get compliments, I wrote it to help people. So I asked him "That's lovely to hear, how has it helped you?" "Well", he ventured "I'm not sure exactly, I've done the 3 good things exercise a few times ... I'm sure some of it's helping me by osmosis!".
The thing is, I know from my experience as a coach and therapist that whilst osmosis works great for plants it's not really so effective for humans ..
I've learnt that there are two steps to achieving your potential through positive psychology
To read the full article click
here http://blog.timlebon.com/2016/05/the-2-steps-to-achieving-your-potential.html
