Total Wellbeing

“Embrace all life has to offer, for one spends a long time dead.” – Dr. Jonathan Sackier A sabbatical is taking a period of time–usually anywhere from a couple of months to a year–away from your normal routine. It’s a time to immerse yourself in a different environment, try new things, reassess your priorities, and look at your life from a different perspective. You can fulfill your dream of living in Paris for a year, go on an archaeological dig in Malta, write your novel, check items off your bucket list (go parachuting, scuba diving, and run a marathon), or simply reconnect with yourself. ... Read Full Story

Find out some easy ways to manage your family finances with this free Family Budget Checklist - a quickguide to help you take control. In today’s world of escalating prices, job security issues and growing lists of monthly expenses, it can be tough for families to make ends meet. We want to provide the best we can for our children, but sometimes the funds available seem to work against that. By taking the time to understand your financial situation and carefully putting together a family budget, you can help create the financial security your family needs. Click here to download your free guide (PDF) Read Full Story

Food and mood and very tightly bound. Eat junk food and you feel rubbish 10 minutes later; eat healthily and you feel energized and virtuous. So is it any wonder that eating badly when you're in the office can impact on how you feel for the rest of the day and overall? You are only as good as the fuel you run on and this is something a lot of businesses can help out with if they want to get the best performance out of their employees. So what can organisations do to make it easier for employees to stay healthy and fired up ... Read Full Story

It's impossible at the moment to switch on the news without hearing about banks closing, mortgage houses collapsing and doom, doom and more gloom where money and the future is concerned. This is bound to effect the attitude people have to work and employees can start to look around for safer bets. Staff turnover is always higher than any organisation would like but it's costly too. Now is the time to be motivating staff to feel happy and secure where they are and incentivising them to choose to stay put rather than be tempted elsewhere. But how can you do this without throwing more ... Read Full Story

Is it Possible to find a job you enjoy? The reason I ask is because I know more people who don't like what they do than those who do. That will probably come as no surprise to you but I still find it slightly depressing that so many people spend the majority of their lives doing something they don't enjoy. But is that the way it has to be? I don't think so. It is possible to find a job you like the majority of the time, but it requires some effort on your part to get there. Here's how: 1. Don't throw the ... Read Full Story