Worksheets, ideas and examples of the Positivity Planner in use.
Every year, I make a few September resolutions. For some reason, it makes more sense to me to make resolutions at the start of a new school year than in the depths of winter. Late year, my resolutions were: 1. Continue to get outside every day. I’ve been doing the 1000 Hours Outside challenge for a…
When life seems totally overwhelming, I find that if I can just achieve one thing a day, I feel so much calmer and more positive.
Inspired by a recent episode of Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s excellent podcast, I’ve created a new worksheet, which I’ve called ‘Breathing Bingo’. The aim is to see how many of these different breathing techniques you can tick off in any given week – you can either go for a line or attempt to get a ‘full…
The latest worksheet in my Positivity Toolkit is about calming anxiety through noticing the things around us.
Why practise gratitude? One of the core principles of the Positivity Planner, and a wellbeing tool that is backed up by huge amounts of research, is the concept of gratitude. Simply taking the time to think about what you are grateful for, either once a day, or even just once a week, can have a…
Why ‘3 brilliant things’? I don’t know about you, but often at the end of a long week, when I’m exhausted and counting down the minutes until the weekend, I find it can be all too easy to focus on the negatives. Therefore, every Friday, I make an effort to reflect on the brilliant things…
What are ‘junk values’? I recently listened to the brilliant (if somewhat controversial!) Johann Hari on the Feel Better Live More podcast with Dr Rangan Chatterjee and found one of his ideas particularly interesting… the notion of ‘junk values’. Hari described this concept in an article in the LA Times: “Junk food looks like food,…
I filmed this earlier on a little walk when I was trying to wake myself up and get some motivation. Just to prove I’m not some ridiculously sunny, annoyingly positive person all the time! I have to work on it every day, just like most people, especially when it’s cold and dark outside all the…
I’ve always found the start of the new academic year to be a great time for making resolutions… much more so than January, which in the world of education is in the middle of the year and dark and cold and somehow already feels too late to be making resolutions. However, in September, I’m full…