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7 Ways To Improve Your Emotional Intelligence
EQ has been linked to career success and it also contributes to success in many other areas of life.
Here are seven things you can do to improve your Emotional Intelligence.
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8 life lessons from the Stoics
Despite being over 2,000 years old the Stoic philosophy is still highly relevant to our modern lives.
Here are eight important life lessons from the Stoics
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When is Fathers Day celebrated in different countries
For anyone who has lived in a different country to your home country, you may have been caught out by this and found yourself thinking – when is Fathers Day? I know I have. As it turns out, Fathers Day (as with Mothers Day) is celebrated on many different dates around the world. To ensure […]
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Coaches, Mentors and Teachers – what are they and why you should have one
Success in life is rarely achieved alone. Whilst grit, hard work and dedication will get us a long way, to be truly successful we also need to know when to ask for help. And help can come in many forms. From many different sources. When you actually stop and think about who you have to […]
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The Marshmallow Test and delayed gratification
Let’s start with a game! Can you solve this riddle and guess the next three letters? d r m f s _ _ _ If you’d like to know the answer immediately simply click here. However, before you do that, you also have a second option. Instead, you can stick around to read the entire […]
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Don’t trust the golden rule – It probably doesn’t apply to your relationship.
What is the Golden Rule? We’ve all heard about the golden rule, right? If you didn’t hear it directly from your parents’ mouths, then you surely learned about it from a teacher, or a preacher, or perhaps a random old person in the street. The most commonly used version of the golden rule, at least […]
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Tabata: The 4-minute workout for busy dads
Too busy to keep fit? I know. I know…. Being a busy dad means it’s harder to find time to exercise. But that doesn’t mean you have to surrender to the dad body. Instead, you just need to be more efficient with the time that you do have available. And when it comes to exercising, […]
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How to raise children with grit
What is Grit? The concept of ‘grit’ has been popularised by psychologist and author, Angela Duckworth. As part of her research, Duckworth conducted studies of high-achieving individuals in various fields ranging from business to education and the military. She was looking for common characteristics or personality traits that could be used as a predictor of […]
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Sharpen your saw each day with a morning routine
There are few things certain in life, as the saying goes, except death and taxes. Well, I’d also like to add another item to the list of certainties, and that is this… Once you become a dad, you will certainly have less spare time. We all know this. We were aware of it before we […]
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Mindfulness Is Child’s Play: How to live in the moment like a kid
Everyone seems obsessed with mindfulness these days. It’s become a huge industry in its own right, with mobile apps, meditation retreats and hundreds of books being written on the topic. In it’s simplest form, mindfulness represents the ability to be fully present and living in the moment without thinking or being distracted by the past, […]
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Playing the blame game with your partner? Here’s how to break the habit
We’ve all been there, right? Not just as dads, but even before the kids arrived, as boyfriends, partners or husbands we’ve all been in a situation where we find ourselves being blamed ‘unfairly’ for something (or everything) that has gone wrong. Now throw pregnancy, hormones and sleep deprivation into the mix and it only gets […]
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The Power Of Habits – How to teach kids good habits for life
“We are what we repeatedly do” I love this quote. It’s simple and succinct, but it has a profound meaning. And the fact it is often attributed to Aristotle seems to give it even more street cred. But apparently Aristotle never actually said this, at least not as succinctly. It was first written in this […]
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