If you see your horoscope in a magazine do you check it out? When I ask this question to clients I mostly get “yeah, but I don’t believe it!”

My response is usually “then why the hell read it?”

Mental wellbeing, Psychology, Resilience, ThrivingMichelle Carlyle5 October 2018anxiety, locus of control

How Miss 5-Year-Old Changed Her Thinking

I love hearing how people have changed their lives after “learning-the-thinking-skills-we-were-never-taught-in-school”.

This one is a bit different.

Mental wellbeing, Psychology, ThrivingMichelle Carlyle19 September 2018thriving, phobia, anxiety, children

How to unlearn social anxiety

I remember going to high school with a girl called Alison. She was born and raised in Australia but her parents were American. Alison had an Aussie/Americano sort of thing going on when she spoke. There were certain words she said that had a twang to them. Kinda cool at the time.

Mental wellbeing, Psychology, ThrivingMichelle Carlyle10 September 2018anxiety, social anxiety, language, beliefs, thinking styles

Manifest your best day, every day.

We know that setting our daily goals is one way to help us achieve them. Writing them down is going to get you even closer to transferring them into the DONE list at the end of the day - by a whopping 42% according to Dr. Gail Matthews, a psychology professor at the Dominican University in California.

Mental wellbeing, PsychologyMichelle Carlyle16 April 2018thinking, growth mindset

How our mindset impacts our behaviours

I teach people how to develop new cognitive and emotional skills. Skills that are helpful. Helpful in leading a life that is happy, resilient, and thriving.

Mental wellbeing, PsychologyMichelle Carlyle27 February 2018beliefs, fixed mindset, growth mindset

How thriving can stop procrastination

I listened to a terrific podcast recently by Dr Christian Jarrett. He interviewed two world experts in the psychology of procrastination - Professor Tim Pychyl at Carleton University and Dr Fuschia Sirois at the University of Sheffield.

Personal leadership, Psychology, ThrivingMichelle Carlyle1 February 2018thriving, procrastination, beliefs

How to reduce stress by setting a daily focus

If you’ve read Barbara Fredrickson’s book titled Positivity, you’ll remember it promptly starts with two versions of her “start to the day”. She refers to these two versions as Take 1 and Take 2.

Mental wellbeing, Psychology, ThrivingMichelle Carlyle29 November 2017thriving, thinking, stress

How control helps us thrive

If you really dislike the feeling of being “out of control”, the chances are you have a high “desire for control”.

Are you chewing the cud too much?

Brooding. It's a bit like a cow chewing cud. You just keep turning that big lump of a thought around in your head over and over and over and over again.

Mental wellbeing, Psychology, ThrivingMichelle Carlyle31 August 2017thinking, habits, obsessive, brooding

Sometimes just a good "sit" is a positive

I went to an event last night and listened to Natalia Cohen speak. Amazing. Loved every word. It began with her painting a visual picture with words of her epic adventure rowing across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Cairns.

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