by Katherine Mair | Aug 12, 2015 | Mindfulness, Practice Insights, Uncategorized
We all rely on them. In fact we all use them unconsciously every day. Heuristics are mental short cuts that enable us to ease cognitive load and make decisions more quickly. It’s the ‘rule of thumb’ that helps us to deal with whatever comes our way each day...
by Katherine Mair | Aug 5, 2015 | MAD Blather, Work
I’ve just come to a critical juncture in a large piece of work I’ve been involved in. Like any complex project, there have been several teams, lots of people and a large number of moving parts involved. We’re now at the end of the first phase of work. In so many ways...
by Katherine Mair | Aug 2, 2015 | General, Life, MAD Blather
Community is the essence of our existence. Think about it. Whether it’s the team we work with all day, the school our children go to, or the block we live on, the connections and relationships we build over time are bigger than ourselves. And that’s community....
by Katherine Mair | Jul 25, 2015 | General, Life, MAD Blather
We all need a damn good vent now and then. Let’s face it, if we don’t get things off our chest we might literally explode. At the wrong time. With the wrong person. Besides, a good old verbal vomit is cathartic and just feels plain good. But how often do...
by Katherine Mair | Jul 12, 2015 | Breathing Exercises, Mindfulness, Practice Insights
Do you regularly find yourself running from meeting to meeting? Do you feel like you lurch from task to task, request to request, as you toil through yet another manic day? This simple technique can be used anywhere, anytime to re-boot, reset and refocus. It takes...
by Katherine Mair | Jul 3, 2015 | MAD Blather, Work
A colleague of mine recently shared a link to a thought-provoking article by Travis Bradberry looking at How Successful People Work Less and Get More Done. Chock full of useful insights, the one that resonated with me most profoundly was the research he referenced...
by Katherine Mair | Jun 25, 2015 | Mindfulness, Practice Insights
What? A day without the phone! Impossible. This absurd idea occurred to me as I caught myself compulsively checking my phone – as though something new had arrived since the last time I’d checked, oh just a few seconds earlier. It took a week before I could even...
by Katherine Mair | Jun 18, 2015 | Home Practice, Practice Insights
Take 5 minutes at the beginning or end of your day to complete this simple practice. Click this link to Motivate with this simple Mind-Body Connect Sequence.
by Katherine Mair | Jun 11, 2015 | General, MAD Blather
Sex and the City writer Julie Rottenberg recently published an article on LinkedIn about the road she took to her dream job – an interesting story about going from ‘wanting’ to ‘becoming’ what she wanted. What struck me most in her story...
by Katherine Mair | Jun 5, 2015 | Life, MAD Blather
Sleep has never been easy for my daughter. Now that she can communicate, she ardently asserts “I don’t like sleeping mummy. I don’t want to go to sleep. Ever”. She is afraid of sleep. And always has been. Dutifully, I’ve tried to explain the benefits of sleep and the...
