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Here's to a stress-free Christmas
Breeze through Christmas These Christmassy top tips will train your brain to stop kicking happiness into the long grass. Practise them regularly and you won’t have to wait 365 days for happiness to return. We all know that puppies are forever – not just for Christmas – and it’s the same with happiness. It’s the holiday season which is supposed to mean good-will to everyone, the time to be jolly and enjoy the wonderful Christmassy shenanigans. But what about the other side of Christmas?
What leaders can do to fix a 'zombie organization'
Organizational research from Gallup shows that 50% of employees were disengaged last year. That’s a sizeable chunk who hate coming to work. This means half your workforce is regularly absent, unmotivated, or suffering from persistent, low-level mental health problems; in other words, a zombie organization. Or, they’re stuck in what I call “the curse of mediocrity”: they show up physically but would much rather not be there.
Screentime, social media and anxiety - SecEd
Here’s a big and controversial thought – what if ADHD and anxiety are not individual problems? What if society has got an attention disorder? What if we have accidentally created a world that stresses you out and messes with your head? When historians look back at this era, I think they will recognise that we lived through what they might call the Great Acceleration – an era of warp speed. And it’s not just technology – everything has sped up.
Less sick days, more energy: Why team happiness should be made a priority at work
Most organisations have been restructured to within an inch of their life. Chances are staff numbers have been butchered to the point that there is no slack in the system and everyone is at full throttle. There’s a lot of ‘wellbeing washing’ where leaders talk about the importance of wellbeing, while piling on more pressure. The result? It can feel a lot like Mario Kart. It’s fast and furious, with banana skins aplenty. Ten years down the line, what do you want to be?
School refusal: 4 ways to make your classroom happier
The post-Covid issues with attendance are an ongoing concern for schools: rates of absence are still higher than before the pandemic, and even rising in some demographics, with almost 40 per cent of disadvantaged students persistently absent in the past academic year. I see it all the time when I visit schools. Some kids struggled in the pandemic, fell behind with their learning and now find that everything’s on the decline. They’re languishing, becoming physically, emotionally and mentally unwell.
Build infrastructure for people - not cars
The cost-of-living crisis is now having a profound impact on day-to-day life. As households look to cut costs, uncomfortable and often unaffordable choices are being faced by more than one million people in Scotland are at risk of transport poverty. Transport poverty occurs when people don’t have access to essential services or work because of a lack of affordable transport options.
How to Say No Politely and Get Your Time Back
For some people life post-lockdown means full diaries of events and socialising – but what if it feels like too much? Dr Andy Cope reveals how to say no politely and get some of your time back to yourself If setting boundaries is something you really struggle with, maybe therapy could help – find yours here I’ve gotten myself into a situation and I suspect I’m not the only one.
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Safe walking and cycling infrastructure reduces health inequalities
The recent landmark reports by the Institute of Health Equity (‘The Marmot Review – ten years on’ and ‘The Covid-19 Marmot Review’, both commissioned by the Health Foundation) spell out how walking and cycling can help address both health inequalities and pandemic response. The ‘ten years on’ report spells out how improvements to life expectancy have stalled, and details how the health gap has grown between wealthy and deprived areas.
Now read this: ‘Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots,’ ‘The Teenager’s Guide to Life, the Universe and Being Awesome’
Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! Books recommended by the Hawaii State Library: “Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots” By Michael Rex A group of robots teaches kids about the important distinction between facts and opinions, and reminds us that it’s nice to listen to one another’s opinions, and to also stand up for the facts. This book tackles a serious topic in a fun way.
How does the UK Government’s Gear Change relate to the National Cycle Network?
Walking and cycling has been an important part of the UK’s resilience in weathering the peak of the Covid19 pandemic. The UK Government has recognised this in its recently published Gear Change strategy, packed with measures that Sustrans, together with our partners in the Walking and Cycling Alliance, have long campaigned and worked for.
Happy Parenting | Happy Child | Happy Family | My Baba
If I asked you, ‘what is the ONE thing you want for your children?’, your unequivocal answer would be ‘happiness’. Here are some top tips for being a great parent and raising happy children: Ditch the grumpy parent Be the best parent you can be every night when you get in from work or they get home from school. Often after a busy day when you stumble through the door and are greeted by your family, this is when ‘grumpy parent’ can appear.
The Little Book of Being Brilliant
Dr. Andy Cope’s new book The Little Book of Being Brilliantreveals the secrets of human flourishing - distilling 15 years of research into a single book, crammed with wellbeing solutions, common sense and humour. While the rest of the psychological profession has been studying depression, anxiety and panic attacks, he’s taken the opposite path. The psychological profession has shunned happy people on the grounds of ‘not being ill’, Dr Andy has embraced them for exactly the same reason.
7 Things We Should be Teaching Children
Wellbeing is child’s play. Which is why I reckon we should all take it a bit more seriously. It’s when we start messing around with adulthood that most of the problems seem to occur. If you’ve ever had the slightly-precarious privilege of standing in the middle of a primary school playground, you’ll have witnessed the sheer unadulterated joy of not being an adult. Children are in perpetual motion, laughing, screaming and literally unable to contain their happiness.
How to have a happy, stress-free Christmas
Christmas is a beautiful time of family and giving but it can also be a great source of stress. Here's how to beat the winter blues By Andy Cope My Christmassy top tips will train your brain to stop kicking happiness into the long grass. Practice them regularly and you won’t have to wait 365 days for happiness to return. We all know that puppies are forever—not just for Christmas—and it's the same with happiness.
To combat climate change, we need radical changes in the way we commute
This year the average concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has hit its highest level in 800,000 years. Yet without urgent efforts to reduce emissions, concentrations, and the damage caused by climate change, this concentration will continue to grow. One of the sectors where CO2 emissions continue to rise is transport. Recent analysis of the carbon budget suggests that petrol and diesel car sales will have to end by 2030 in order to counter this trend.
Looking to the future of transport: investing to support mobility
Cycling and walking should be at the heart of future urban mobility strategy. Andy Cope, our Director of Insight, responds to the UK Government’s Future of Mobility call for evidence. The challenges and opportunities of technologies in transport are many. The appeal of electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, new business models and innovation in data use is that they all offer exciting possibilities and real opportunity.
Dr Andy Cope: Leadership – A Crisis of No-Confidence
Look around at the current crop of leaders and you might develop a nervous twitch. The political plate is laden with crises and we have Donald and Teresa, with Boris or Jeremy in the wings. Possibly Mr Rees Mogg (in deference to his Victorian upbringing, I feel compelled to use his surname). I’m not a political animal but I’d say it’s potentially the worst leadership crop in living memory.
How To Escape The Winter Blues
Winter looms. Darkness rules. You can expect lots of storms with names. Look around you and you’ll see windswept skylines and bleak people. It brings to mind the classic line from the movie ‘6th Sense’ in which a young boy confides to Bruce Willis, ‘I see dead people’. And I see them too. Especially, but not exclusively, at this time of year. Hordes of folk who are alive but not really living. Too many people are having what I call a ‘near life experience’.
Cycling and walking the obvious quick-win solution to improving air quality
Air quality is one of the biggest challenges currently facing UK policy makers. The widely reported fact of 40,000 UK deaths being attributable to poor air quality should be a major catalyst for change. At Sustrans we are working to establish what the contribution of walking and cycling to improving air quality can be. We want to produce something that can help to support policy making and provide evidence of benefits of walking and cycling on the environment.
10 Acts of kindness for your partner
13 November 2019 By Andy Cope, happiness expert and author of The Little Book of Emotional Intelligence. The Little Book Of Emotional Intelligence Education has the ‘3 Rs’ and so does the science of happiness; ‘Relationships’, ‘Relationships’ & ‘Relationships’. You can be happy on your own but genuine long-term joy tends to involve shared experiences, with people you love. How do I know? I’ve got qualifications in happiness. Yes really! I’m a happiness researcher, based at Loughborough University.
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