“I know there will be better days.” That is a lyric from one of my favourite songs – Better Days by OneRepublic. It also inspired the name of our website. 2021 is coming to a close, shortly we will be at the start of a new year. I am writing this on New Year’s Eve….
Category: january
Sleep and your heart rate
Have you ever wondered how sleep effects your heart rate. A smart watch can give you some insight if you wear one, but for many of us it will remain a mystery. I read a great article on the Harvard Medical School website on the topic. You can check out the full article here. Here…
Get Active Blog: I’m Resting Up
Today I’ve had to take an extra rest day, after weeks of higher intensity training, the muscle soreness has caught up with me… significantly. I am not new to exercise, and therefore I plan workouts carefully to have higher and lower intensity days, whilst maintaining one full rest day per week. But over time it…
Ted Talk: Try something new for 30 days
Is there something you’ve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just … haven’t? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals Check out this link: Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days | TED Talk
2021: Aim smaller?
2020 was a difficult year for many of us. Some of us would say it was the worst year of their lives so far. The impact of the pandemic, at least in the UK, did suddenly seem to effect life from March. We had carried on our lived as normal from New Years day. Those…
Blog: Finding the right tools
Welcome to Monday, I hope you had a great weekend. I’m got a little behind with my wellbeing work over the weekend, basically everything I had planned to do did not happen. I bought and received a new laptop, so my time was spent getting that up and running. Hopefully I’ll be back on track…
Midweek Blog & Round Up 21 January 2021
You know how life is, sometimes things are really busy and you have to take a few minutes out of your day to focus on organising. Well I reached this point yesterday morning, I had a lot on my to do list. That had a potential to make me feel overwhelmed. I applied tools…
Blue Monday
Today (Monday 18 January) is blue Monday. It is the third Monday of the year, and is known by some (or many) to be the most depressing day of the year. This is supposedly due to a combination of bad weather, long nights and the lingering negatives of Christmas (over indulging and financial pressures etc)….
Get Fit for free, with the NHS
Getting started with a new exercise routine is not easy – I get that. If you are also new to exercise it can be even more challenging too. The challenges can be varied: cost, motivation, time. Right now, lockdown in the UK makes it a little harder two. I wanted to share two great links…
How to help your child embrace boredom
If we are always busy, our mind is always occupied, do we really have any time to expand and evolve. Modern day society often portrays boredom as a negative. But times of boredom could be embraced, it can teach us to look for new things to do and try. Being bored may actually mean you…
Better Days Wellbeing 