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Mental Fitness Mondays: Bringing it all togetherMonday 27th October 2025
What’s the one thing we all need to consider?
Over the last few months, we've explored the different muscles that at Real Clear, we believe make people mentally fit....
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Mental Fitness Mondays: Authenticity
Monday 13th October 2025
How much do you feel like ‘yourself’ today?
In today’s Mental Fitness Monday I’m covering the last of the muscles that I believe we can develop: Authenticity, part...
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Mental Fitness Mondays: Empathy as a People Skill Muscle
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Build Your Social Confidence
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: How Good are your Social Skills?
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Goals Galore!
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Sense of Purpose
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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I would walk 400 miles…
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Rise to Challenge
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Motivation part 1
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Creativity
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Mental Agility
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Mindfulness
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Get Focused!
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Self Control; where there’s a will there’s a way?
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Emotion Regulation
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Understanding Self Regard as a way to Self-Care
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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Mental Fitness Mondays: Building Resilience
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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Mental Fitness: The Big Four
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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Mental Fitness…where did it all begin?
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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Mental Fitness Monday Launch
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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The Real Clear Guide to Living in the Lockdown
Tuesday 7th April 2020
(Written by Lisa)
When facing uncertainty and fear on a global scale many of us are having two main responses;...
