Mental Fitness Mondays

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Mental Agility

16th February 2026
Mental Fitness Mondays: Mental Agility
The Day I Googled “Expanding Wind Instrument”

Even just reading the words “expanding wind instrument” makes me laugh. You’re probably wondering what planet I’m on, but bear with me, because it illustrates something...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: The Radical Power of Saying No

2nd February 2026
Mental Fitness Mondays: The Radical Power of Saying No
How self-control protects us from burnout in activism, care work, and community life

Self Control as Self Care People are sometimes surprised that Self-Control is part of the Self Care core muscle in our Mental Fitness model. But I...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Emotion Regulation in the Face of Injustice

19th January 2026
Mental Fitness Mondays: Emotion Regulation in the Face of Injustice
How to Stay Calm When You’re Furious at Injustice

You’ve just found out that your employer is making a load of your colleagues redundant, while the CEO has been awarded a £2 million bonus. You’ve...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Motivation Part 2

5th January 2026
Mental Fitness Mondays: Motivation Part 2
The Neuroscience of Motivation

A while back I wrote a post on Motivation (read that here - Mental Fitness Mondays: Motivation part 1 | Blog | Real Clear) In that...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Create your Mental Fitness Exercise Routine

22nd December 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Create your Mental Fitness Exercise Routine
Activities That Give your Mind and Brain A Boost

Creating Your Mental Fitness Exercise Routine Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored what it means to be mentally fit. Today, I want to take that...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Be the Change

8th December 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Be the Change
“I believe in myself Mummy”

I was on holiday in France when I heard my nearly 2-year-old utter those words. Out on a walk, we reached the top of a set...

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Mental Fitness and Arguments

24th November 2025
Mental Fitness and Arguments
How good are you at picking your battles?

“I can’t believe you did that, that’s so unfair.” “I had to do it. You must be an idiot if you can’t see that.” “I’m not...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Making Mentally Fit Decisions

10th November 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Making Mentally Fit Decisions
What should I do?!

In today’s Mental Fitness Monday, I want to talk about decision-making - and how you can use our Mental Fitness model to make better choices. A...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Bringing it all together

27th October 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Bringing it all together
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. What we haven't talked about is...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Authenticity

13th October 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Authenticity
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 of the People Skills muscle group....

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Empathy as a People Skill Muscle

22nd September 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Empathy as a People Skill Muscle
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 I plan any coaching or training...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Build Your Social Confidence

15th September 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Build Your Social Confidence
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 from the last post about social...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: How Good are your Social Skills?

1st September 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: How Good are your Social Skills?
Social Skills Reign Supreme

We all know someone - maybe it’s you - who is socially confident. They seem to have no problem striking up conversations, talking to anyone and...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Goals Galore!

18th August 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Goals Galore!
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 this is my bread and butter;...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Rise to Challenge

4th August 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Rise to Challenge
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 few of us are going to...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Sense of Purpose

21st July 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Sense of Purpose
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 a small rucksack. I’m about to...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Motivation part 1

30th June 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Motivation part 1
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 coaching sessions. Sometimes people arrive to...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Creativity

16th June 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Creativity
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 thought you weren’t at all creative?...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Mental Agility

2nd June 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Mental Agility
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 it out, if you wanted to....

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Mindfulness

12th May 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Mindfulness
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 today’s Mental Fitness Monday I look...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Get Focused!

28th April 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Get Focused!
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 of the ‘Big Four’ elements; Self...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Self Control; where there’s a will there’s a way?

14th April 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Self Control; where there’s a will there’s a way?
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 and I think that's because when...

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I would walk 400 miles…

4th April 2025
I would walk 400 miles…
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 March, I’d have been surprised. At...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Emotion Regulation

31st March 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Emotion Regulation
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 notice that you feel a mix...

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Understanding Self Regard as a way to Self-Care

17th March 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Understanding Self Regard as a way to Self-Care
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 build your reserves of resilience up....

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Mental Fitness Mondays: Building Resilience

3rd March 2025
Mental Fitness Mondays: Building Resilience
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 recent years. With high costs of...

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Mental Fitness: The Big Four

17th February 2025
Mental Fitness: The Big Four
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 take what it really means to...

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Mental Fitness…where did it all begin?

3rd February 2025
Mental Fitness…where did it all begin?
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 share with you a bit of...

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Mental Fitness Monday Launch

20th January 2025
Mental Fitness Monday Launch
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 you that being fit can make...

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