Tag: better working environment

Words cannot change reality, but they can alter people's perceptions of reality. Words create filters through which people perceive their surroundings.

Most people feel low sometimes, but if it is affecting your life, there are things you can try that may help. However, a low mood will tend to lift after a few days or weeks.

People may have several skills, some unrelated to each other, and each skill will typically be at one of the stages of competence at a given time.

For each of us, a healthy work-life balance will entail something different. It's more important to make sure you feel pleased and fulfilled in both aspects of your life rather than dividing your time equally between work and pleasure.

Are you always trying to achieve more? Submerged in the everyday agony to accomplish everything in possessions, relationships and career achievements, you try so hard to be perfect, that you forget to embrace the moment. This is why the Japanese philosophy is here with another life lesson: Wabi Sabi.

Have you ever caught yourself constantly postponing that work task from one day to the next? Have you also noticed that this is the one task that stresses you more than the others? This is called workplace procrastination and is a very common issue affecting office employees’ productivity, which has nothing to do with laziness.

Neuroscience, also known as Neural Science, is the study of how the nervous system develops, its structure, and what it does. Neuroscientists are interested in how the brain affects behavior and cognitive processes. The neural networks that cover our brain change in strength based on how frequently we use them. The ones we use frequently develop into powerful "neural highways" that characterize our default emotions, mental patterns, and personalities. The good news is that our neural pathways can be changed; this is called neuroplasticity. Most of the time, we react to a certain external stimulus in order to feel emotions, but it's not always the case. Emotional responses can also be brought on by our thinking. Mammal brain can be stimulated to produce a physical emotional response if our human brain recalls a concept or memory of a period when we felt guilty or angry. These are feelings. Feelings are different from emotions therefore in that they can be rationalized. Feelings are reactions to the environment paired with our thoughts, interpretations, or underlying beliefs about the circumstance, and they occur extremely quickly. Because we have the ability to question our feelings and to reflect our thoughts back to ourselves, our ...

If you have mental health problems, your thinking, mood, and behavior may be affected throughout your life. Many factors contribute to mental health issues, such as: Biological factors, such as genes or brain chemistry; Life experiences, such as trauma or abuse and; Family history of mental health problems.

Environmental and Indigenous groups are in Federal Court, challenging the Minister of Environment and Climate Change’s approval of Bay du Nord, a controversial $12-billion oil and gas project proposed off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. 

The geopolitical uncertainty brought by the Ukrainian war, the continuous disruption post-COVID, and the escalation of climate change effects have pushed business leaders to put a greater focus on their sustainability agendas, according to the 12th UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study.