Mental Resilience: 3 Key Capabilities By Sleiman “Slayman” Abou-Hamdan Speaker, Coach, Facilitator, Psychologist How often have you been at work feeling stressed, and not performing or collaborating at your best? What do you tend to do in those situations? ·         Do you tend to work more and more and then find it hard to relax and unwind? ·         Or do you feel confused, lacking in direction and worried? ·         Or do you tend to feel unmotivated, stuck or flat? These ..read more

Happiness. The elusive goal of waking up in the morning with no worries in the world. You wake up and have your partner, maybe kids, and your home. You are happy. To many, this sounds like happiness. We all have a version of this vision, and we equate that with happiness. Problem: Life has to continue when we achieve happiness  Happiness is a noble goal. Yet given the fact that we are future oriented means that we will always have a vision of happiness to achieve. This means once we have achieved our vision, there will be another vision of happiness to strive for. This means we are perpet ..read more

  The worldwide outbreak of the Coronavirus has clearly caused a lot of change and distress. It is difficult to know where to start with events of this nature. They range from stressful to truly tragic. It can genuinely be hard to know what to do when things like this happen. With things as they are, it can be a truly disorientating experience.    Most of us are still trying to adjust to self-isolation and working from home. It seems from this point that we can adopt one of two (or maybe a mix of two) strategies in the coming months at home.&nb ..read more

Your Personality: Mapping out the 5 parts of you Your personality traits are influenced by a broad range of factors. These traits are generally stable over time and are determined in part by your biology, in part by your environment, and by the interaction of the two.  Let’s discuss each one in turn, through the acronym O.C.E.A.N. OPENNESS  Openness is a person’s tendency to think in abstraction, or in complicated ways.  People who are higher in openness are typically creative, adventurous and enjoy intellectual pursuits. For example, people high in openness may like ..read more