You Are Not Your Brain
From Corporate to Calling
Do you wake up each day fully charged and raring to go and contribute in ways you find purposeful, fulfilling and meaningful? Be it at work or play, we all crave the need to make a meaningful contribution and add value along this crazy wild journey called life. In this month’s blog, I’ll show you…
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Change. It’s inevitable. It’s constant. And yet we can all struggle to accept and adapt to change. Why is that? And how do we do it better? In this month’s blog, I’ll explore this with you. So tune in. Hi I’m Josie Thomson. I’m a mindset, resilience and change leadership expert. I’m an international…
Continue ReadingHow to Beat Stress
Two of the very common themes I come across in executive coaching is how to change the relationship with oneself and with stress, AND why do we beat ourselves up? What positive purpose could it possibly serve? In this month’s blog, I’ll explore these scenarios for you. Hi I’m Josie Thomson. I’m a multi-award winning…
Continue ReadingChange your thoughts and your life
Shadows? Some of our biggest problems often only exist in our head. The primary cause of our unhappiness and sense of ‘defeat’ is never the current situation but our thoughts about it. Happiness and success really comes down to two elements: the way we think and the way we act based upon our thoughts.…
Continue ReadingThrive and Shine
If we want to thrive in life, we need to take a good hard look in the mirror and then take small, consistent steps to self-correct if necessary. One trap I often see in my work is believing and insisting that life is simply too hard and too unfair. The truth is, it’s as…
Continue ReadingYou’re more resilient than you think
Over the weekend a friend sent me a link to Delta Goodrem’s new song ‘Dear Life’ – if you haven’t listened to you it, I recommend it to you. She said it reminded her of me. To me it’s like an open letter to life, reflecting on the path and reminding us that there are…
Continue ReadingFree Your Mind With Mindfulness
Are Bad Habits and Unhealthy Thinking Taking Control Of Your Life? Try Mindfulness… Download this article here. Have you ever been on a train that is stationary at the platform and felt as though you were already moving because the train next to you started to pull away? That is how we often experience our thinking.…
Continue ReadingSimple Mindfulness Exercises
Download this article here. Meditation is an exercise in mindfulness. Despite what you may think, it doesn’t need to be hard and won’t require you to fit something else into your already busy schedule. If you can take between 4-16 minutes* each day to sit and meditate or be guided through a relaxing visualisation then I would…
Continue Reading8 Telltale Signs You’re NOT In Control Of Your Brain
Download this article here. Are you living your life on autopilot never pausing to consider who’s in charge of your thoughts? Do you sometimes wonder why you react the way you do to things that happen around or to you? Well the good news is that it’s not you… it’s just your brain! Or more…
Continue ReadingABC Radio: How To Train Your Brain & Change The Way You Think
The way you think, feel and act can be controlled by your brain. So can you change your brain? The actual way your brain works and controls you? According to Josie Thomson and Dr Jeffrey Schwartz, the answer is yes. Dr Jeffrey Schwartz & I were privileged to be interviewed by Steve Austin from ABC…
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