Corporate Mental Health & Performance
Motivation is the experience of desire or aversion (you want something, or want to avoid or escape something). As such, motivation has both an objective aspect (a goal or thing you aspire to) and an internal or subjective aspect (it is you that wants the thing or wants it to go away). – Wikipedia
Have you ever participated in a personality development event and felt totally engaged and motivated to change your entire life from that time point? Have you felt like you can move to the mountains? Congratulations! Then you know what it means to be fully energized after hearing a motivational speech. It is a totally normal reaction that happens in the audience if the speech has been structured to inspire the audience to make a change in their life. Do you also want to create a speech with this character?
Persuasion is according to the DEX dictionary “the action, the gift, or the power to convince someone to believe, think, or do something.“ It is a very interesting topic because it fascinates many of us to discover the magic of getting what we want from anyone. But if you still struggle to discover a way … Read more
Writing is not one of my strengths. The first time I have discovered this, I was in primary school when in 3rd grade we had to write an essay for the first time. I discovered that free, creative writing is nothing for me and tried to find my way through structured, informative writing. The years passed and after finishing my studies I started to work on my own and founded this blog, and I have to admit that it was quite a challenge to build the habit of writing consistently over time.
When we think back to school time we remember a lot of funny things we did, what the colleagues said and what remarkable teachers we had. But if we are drawing a line and summarize the things we learned in school, which we actually make use in our daily life we find out that there … Read more
Before holding a presentation we usually make some serious thoughts on how to prepare the topic in a way that makes it informative but also impressive to the audience, so that they still keep at least one main idea in mind when they leave the room. A zen presentation is a form of transmitting your … Read more
Some people seem to get all that they want. They just have to ask for something and it is already theirs. And you may try to figure out, how they make it. Magic? Maybe not at all, they know how to use some manipulation techniques and apply them in daily life.
According to Wikipedia gratitude is defined as “thankfulness, or gratefulness, from the Latin word gratus ‘pleasing, thankful’ and is a feeling of appreciation felt by and/or similar positive response shown by the recipient of kindness, gifts, help, favors, or other types of generosity, towards the giver of such gifts.”
Why are mental habits important in order to be successful? Habits help our brain to work more efficiently.
When we repeat day by day the same kind of actions after a period of 90 days our brain will consider them as habits and will not use supplementary energy when effectuating them. These actions work as habits under autopilot. The brain capacity is open to new challenges.