Thursday 26th June 2025

Walk a mile in their shoes?

I get asked to do interesting work sometimes - the kind where teams have fallen out with each other. Before...

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Monday 15th September 2025

What if people are actually quite nice?

It’s Mental Fitness Monday time again and today I’m looking forward to exploring ‘social confidence’ with you. This follows on...

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Monday 1st September 2025

Social Skills Reign Supreme

We all know someone - maybe it’s you - who is socially confident. They seem to have no problem striking...

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Monday 18th August 2025

Ready to join the 8% club?

Today I want to share with you my thoughts about the mental fitness component of ‘goal achievement’. As a coach...

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Monday 21st July 2025

How’s your mojo?

It’s early January 2015 and it’s not quite freezing. I am wrapping myself up and packing an electrolyte drink into...

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Friday 4th April 2025

858,619… no, that’s not my income (though that would be nice!), it’s the number of steps I took in March

If I’d known at the end of February that I was going to walk or run over 400 miles in...

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Monday 4th August 2025

The Eye of the Tiger, channelling your inner Rocky

September 2014 and I’m sat in a meeting with a charity I’m a coach for. The manager mentions that "a...

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Monday 30th June 2025

How’s your mojo?

Today we’re looking at one of my favourite components of Mental Fitness: motivation. Motivation is a big theme in my...

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Monday 16th June 2025

A misunderstood and often forgotten mental fitness component

Back when you were at school, did you feel like you were a creative person? Or maybe, like me, you...

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Monday 2nd June 2025

Use your brain…. but not too much

What’s 379 multiplied by 74? If you can’t answer that straight away (I definitely can’t) then you’d have to work...

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Monday 12th May 2025

It’s all in your head…

Ahhhh Mindfulness…one of the Mental Fitness components that people tend to score themselves lowest on (based on our questionnaire). In...

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Monday 28th April 2025

Where does your time go?

I’ve spent the last few weeks sharing Mental Fitness Monday posts about Self Care. Now we’re shifting to the next...

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Monday 14th April 2025

Is it time to ‘take back control’… of your mental fitness?

It’s Mental Fitness Monday time and today it’s all about self-control.
This is one of my favourite mental fitness components...

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Monday 31st March 2025

Emotional rollercoaster or calm and collected… how well do you manage emotions?

How in tune with your feelings are you? How are you feeling right now - do you know? You might...

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Monday 17th March 2025

Positive self-regard…finding the Goldilocks amount

Welcome back to Mental Fitness Mondays from Real Clear. Our last post looked at resilience, particularly at how you might...

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Monday 3rd March 2025

When the going gets tough….?

This Mental Fitness Monday focuses on a skillset that is often misunderstood: Resilience.
Resilience has been a hot topic in...

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Monday 17th February 2025

What are the ‘Big Four’ of Mental Fitness?

Today we are going to look at what I call ‘The Big Four’ elements of Mental Fitness. These are our...

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Monday 3rd February 2025

A brief history of Real Clear’s Mental Fitness Journey

A brief history of Real Clear’s Mental Fitness Journey
Welcome to the second Mental Fitness Monday! Today I want to...

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Monday 20th January 2025

Welcome to Mental Fitness Mondays!

In news that will surprise absolutely no-one, physical fitness is important for your health. You don’t need me to tell...

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Tuesday 7th April 2020

(Written by Lisa)
When facing uncertainty and fear on a global scale many of us are having two main responses;...

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