Is travel a requirement of your job? Whether you are a corporate executive, FIFO worker or working for a global company, air travel is the norm for many. So, how do you stay well on a flight? As a professional speaker and facilitator, I spend a lot of time on planes....
Welcome to my blog
There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise... Which is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
Welcome to my blog
There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise... Which is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
Is it smart to take a smart drug?
Are you smart enough?Keeping up in our frantic world of super busyness can be mentally draining.What if you could ramp up your cognitive prowess to think faster, solve problems more quickly and store more RAM in your memory banks?What difference would that make to...
The top 3 brain discoveries that will impact how we think
We are living at a time of amazing time of discovery. Our new brain science has provided us greater awareness of how the human brain operates. Not only that, we can upskill certain brain functions to provide us a cognitive edge in our daily...
It’s time to stop taking sides, and use whole brain thinking
One of those deeply entrenched myths has been the idea that we are either right brained or left brained depending on our personality traits. Perhaps it’s because we like the idea of it to explain our natural strengths.But the reality is that we are neither and both,...
What is your gut instinct telling you?
Where does your fear sit?Is it in your chest, your gut, your toes?The brain generates the emotion that we know as fear, yet it is often experienced physiologically in areas often far removed from the brain itself.My fear is visceral. It's in my gut: a deep nagging...
The advantage that standing up brought to thinking
Have you ever wondered why humans stand on two legs and what difference that might have made to how our brains evolved?That was the question Mac and Rick Shine asked themselves while watching the youngest Shine, two-year-old Tyler take his first steps. They noted how...