In a series of articles for World of Learning, best selling author and international behavioural skills consultant Liggy Webb is going to share tips and techniques to help you survive, revive and thrive.
Modern life can, at times, be quite overwhelming and complicated with more change and pressure than most people can handle. Balancing work and home life, as well as finding time to replenish our own depleting energy reserves can be quite a challenge. The need, therefore, to be able to cope better, through a range of essential life skills, is fundamental for both physical and emotional wellbeing.
This series of top five tips covers relevant and essential skills and has been designed to keep things simple in a world where we can so easily be bombarded with complexity and information overload.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, or the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change
– Charles Darwin
The only future thing of which we can be absolutely certain is that there will be some degree of change in all of our lives. It is inevitable. You can’t stop it! You can’t even slow it down or delay it. What you can do, however, with a little knowledge, skill and effort, is to learn how to deal with it.
Everyone reacts differently and some people thrive on change and see it as stimulating and exciting.
Some people, however, can become very stressed and agitated and see change as something that totally destabilises their existence. Here is some advice that will help you to cope better with change:
Be the change you want the world to be
– Mahatma Ghandi
Read the second article in Liggy’s series for us, here>> Coping With Uncertainty