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You’ve got 10 minutes a day spare, right?

You’ve got 10 minutes a day spare, right?

Especially for positive change. Here’s a special challenge just for you! The 10-minute challenge. What is something you keep saying you want to take up? What habit do you say you want to adopt? Well, now you’re going to! For 28 days, you’re going to put just 10 minutes into the habit you choose. Whether it’s exercise, reading, meditation, cooking, yoga… You decide but by the end you’ll feel accomplished and hopefully have a lifelong habit – if you stick with it and have deter

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What are you valuing?

What are you valuing?

What’s stopping you from valuing the things that are important to you? It’s the simple choices – what you’re saying yes to and what you’re saying no to. Are you people pleasing too much? Comparing yourself to everyone around you? Not responsible enough with your time? Do you lack self-discipline? What is it that you need to value? Your work? Fun? Personal development? Happiness? Success? Freedom? Here’s a video about making more time for you: Write down what you need to value

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Habits to break burnout

Habits to break burnout

How do we break the cycle of burnout? To kick off the blog, here’s a quick quiz: On a scale of 1-10 (1 being zero, 10 being perfect), how would you rate the following right now? Sleep Eat Move Connect Play Reflect Unplug Did you know that 74% of UK adults surveyed in 2018 felt overwhelmingly stressed? Yet, stress isn’t considered serious, despite its detrimental effects. So… what is burnout? From a physiological perspective, burnout can show in: fatigue, insomnia, brain fog,

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What is the point?

What is the point?

If this time has taught us one thing… It’s to be and do what makes us HAPPY! It’s simple., simple, simple. What’s the actual point if we’re unhappy? I’m writing this directly to you after a sunny week in Bournemouth, a place that makes me feel alive because I’m by the ocean. I had to go visit again for myself, for my happiness and I had the best week in ages. I also know that Eleni is most content with her daughter Sophie and so she’s committing lots more precious time with h

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Do you have complete rest?

Do you have complete rest?

How often do you take complete rest? From work, chores, workouts, social media? You may quite easily take rest from workouts a few times a week, knowing that your active body needs the rest, you can physically feel it. But your active mind is just as important although we don’t tune into it as much, we almost ignore the signs and carry on, working at much lower productivity levels. This will catch up with us and can cause long-term health issues, mentally and physically. We d

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Some tips for you if you’re in quarantine!

Some tips for you if you’re in quarantine!

We hope you are all well and slowly getting used to life in quarantine! At Kiki Kirby Coaching & Consultancy, we wanted to go through some of our top tips for coping with self-isolation and still being productive in these turbulent times. It’s important to try to keep some normality in the world we’re living in currently, even just to take your mind off what’s worrying you. So here’s our top tips for you: Stick to a routine! This is so crucial right now, and even if it’s not

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Routines in life

Routines in life

Having routine in our lives is crucial to our success day-to-day, but why? To start with, routine can be linked to efficiency as it eliminates the time needed to plan and make decisions. You automatically know what you’re doing when you wake up with routine in your life. Being able to save time is huge in all our busy lives these days! Routine also allows us to prioritise in life. You would know what’s important to complete in the day and if it’s routine you’re more likely to

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Mindful Health

Mindful Health

Be mindful about your health! Your nutrition, your exercise regime, your mental state… Take notice of every bite, every move, every emotion, every thought. When you start to process what you are doing in the moment, you appreciate and enjoy the experience so much more. Let’s take food as an example. It’s so easy to grab some lunch on the go and eat when walking to the next meeting. But when doing this, your brain isn’t processing that you’re eating, leaving you to still feel

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Universal ‘People Problems’ in the Workplace

Universal ‘People Problems’ in the Workplace

After researching typical ‘people problems’ found in a number of organisations, the findings were clear: every workplace has people problems and the majority of them are the same. Learning how to tackle these problems head-on, will, in turn, lead to a happier workforce, higher productivity and increase job satisfaction. The first people problem that was mentioned most frequently was – lack of motivation and engagement. If you have a team who are not motivated to do well and w

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Authenticity is key!

Authenticity is key!

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. ~ Carl Jung Authenticity – where our speech and actions come from our values and belief systems. This is all easy said and done but the amount of people that know themselves on a deep enough level to comprehend their values and beliefs is very rare. It can be a difficult process and one that takes some time and one that actually never stops as there is endless learning on ourselves we can do. But authenticity allows

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