Ep7 Embrace your mornings: 5 Steps to Transform your Life

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, our Chief Psychology Officer - Dr Amanda Potter will be talking to Kate Oliver, Chartered Business and Coaching Psychologist and the author of 'Rise and Shine - How to transform your life, morning by morning’. They will look at the evidence showing why it is that mornings matter and discuss how a morning routine can radically boost wellbeing and success, in today’s busy and demanding world. Kate will talk about the S.H.I.N.E. method and share plenty of practical insights, tips and techniques for how you can use this to easily and enjoyably create a morning routine that works for you to create a greater mental focus throughout the working day. In this episode, Kate Oliver is being interviewed by Tim Hepworth and Dr Amanda Potter. The Chief Psychology Officer website is now available https://www.thecpo.co.uk/To contact Amanda and Kate via LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzirconlinkedin.com/in/kate-oliver-a44749bTo contact Amanda via email:[email protected] order a copy of 'Rise and Shine - How to transform your life, morning by morning’, go to:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Shine-transform-your-morning/dp/0349429359/Timestamps Embrace your mornings: 5 Steps to Transform your Life 00:00 – Introduction to Embracing your mornings 00:38 – Introduction to guest: Kate Oliver 00:46 – Career history 01:23 – Rise & Shine 02:31 – Back to Healthy Habits The origins of Rise & S.H.I.N.E. 03:01 – Where did this book come from? 03:23 – A flash of inspiration! 03:52 – Rise & Shine or Rise & Whine? 04:19 – The start to everyone’s day 05:06 – Someone woke up on the X side of the bed… 05:41 – Start off the day negatively, its going to end badly 06:54 – Listen to your body 07:38 – Helping others, not yourself 08:16 – High in confidence, but prone to perfectionism 08:48 – Vicious cycle 09:20 – Losing the drive to work Time to change 10:13 – Change the way I get up… 11:01 – You’ve changed 11:20 – Positive affirmations 11:51 – Structured journaling 12:45 – Results of last Podcast’s experiment! 13:46 – Success! 14:00 – Sibling collaboration 15:17 – Silence, Happiness, Intention, Nourishment & Exercise 15:36 – Separate from the rest of the market… The mornings can be your happy time 16:19 – 30 different items on the menu 17:05 – First 8 hours after sleep 17:18 – Don’t have a fixed time of day 18:16 – Have fun & meaningful 18:52 – My own little (not black) book 19:18 – What is free-writing? 20:12 – Don’t worry, be Happy 20:53 – 4 hugs for survival, 8 for maintenance, 12 for growth 22:47 – Human beings, not Human doings… 23:01 – It’s not what you do, it how you do it What to do to embrace the mornings… 24:03 – Put your phone down! 24:45 – Personal dilemma; Granola or Bacon? 25:50 – Commitment through context 26:29 – Listening to Podcasts to improve this one 27:19 – Exercise 27:26 – Keep in touch with our bodies 29:14 – A pre-lockdown idea 29:53 – Is it a conscious thought? 30:25 – A flexible approach 31:07 – No really! A flexible approach! 31:59 – A very helpful book 33:05 – The end. Episodes are available here https://www.thecpo.co.uk/ To follow Zircon on LinkedIn and to be first to hear about podcasts, publications and news, please like and follow us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betalent-by-zircon/ To access the research white papers mentioned in this and other podcasts, please go to: https://www.betalent.com/research For more information about the BeTalent suite of tools and platform please contact: [email protected]