As we enter a New Year, there’s a certain pressure that builds around us to set clear goals for ourselves and become one step closer to fulfilling our life’s purpose. Particularly as we leave 2020 and all its challenges behind, we have heard from more and more people struggling to find meaning and purpose in […]
Recently Nahid spoke at the Forum for Applied Neuroscience and led an interactive discussion sharing practical tools you can use immediately to improve your mental fitness and get better results with less stress. Foundational to this process is the NY Times Bestselling book by Shirzad Chamine called Positive Intelligence. It offers a neuroscience-based personal development […]
In this third installment of the Secrets of Mental Well-Being series, we are exploring the inner sources of stress using four simple insights based on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Based on these insights, we will introduce the “trigger log” to take a closer look into your deep-rooted beliefs and begin to understand how this affects getting your needs met on a daily basis.
As we gain work and life experience, it’s very natural to want to offer guidance and suggestions to others when we see an opportunity for improvement. Yet others may not want our advice – and instead prefer to solve their own problems and create positive outcomes in their work and their lives. If you put yourself in their shoes, you can usually see how well-meaning suggestions can often backfire.