Vocation: Archaeology, Job: Freelance (retired). Love good music, theatre and art. Passionate about work of @beingbrilliant, @nakedleader, and @tom_peters
Yes, there are challenges, but there are also opportunities – which is exactly why we’ve developed SHIFT HAPPENS.
It’s about facing work (and life) with your eyes wide open and your best foot forward.
📩 Drop us an email to find out more: [email protected]
Wellness porn
Not all clickbait is poisonous. Sure, ragebait lures you in, but so does so-called ‘wellness porn’.
An entire industry now exists to serve up glossy, slowmotion lives: glowing skin, oat-milk serenity, linen trousers, sunrise journalling, and suspiciously empty inboxes.
It looks effortless and fulfilling. Followers are aroused by the portrayal of an aspirational lifestyle. They want that lifestyle.
For the wellness ‘porn star’, it often doubles as a hunt for validation. Likes become applause and the audience becomes proof that the lifestyle works – even when it doesn’t.
Like actual porn, it’s a performance.
From The Art of Focus, due Aug 2026
Know what? The world needs our workshops and keynotes like never before
We’re up there with police, fire and ambulance as an emergency service
THE wellbeing emergency service!
We’re summoned at [email protected]
We see it all the time – organisations offering wellbeing training because people are feeling exhausted and broken
What you should be doing is putting on a series of training sessions from our menu to uplift, inspire and inoculate against exhaustion
Think prevention rather than cure
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#quoteoftheday: We live in deeds, not years: in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs - Philip James Bailey. Echoed by Art of @beingbrilliant
We all have a nagging internal dialogue that tells us how rubbish we are...
Bad news – it’s built into the human operating system
Good news - you can learn to recognise it for what it is, turn the volume down a notch, & live an amazing life