Develop an attitude of Gratitude
In our fast-paced and often stressful world, it’s easy to overlook the small joys and blessings that surround us. Expressing gratitude can help us cultivate appreciation for our lives and help us see the world through clearer eyes. To cultivate gratitude, you can start by setting aside a few moments each day to reflect on and appreciate the people, experiences and things you are grateful for, keeping a gratitude journal, or expressing your gratitude to others through heartfelt gestures or words of appreciation.
Making a real connection with young people
The youth of today – they’re so difficult. And, yet, we’ve all been the ‘youth of today’ in our time. This Youth Day, let’s reach across the divide and truly connect.
Can you blame young people if they act out? They face endless reams of scary news plus constant social media on how to look, act and live. Add to that our country’s heart-wrenching past and the challenge of choosing a career and finding employment.
How to build family bonds that last
If you ever feel like you’re sharing a house with strangers, it’s time to prioritise your family.
On the news, on social media, even on our WhatsApp chats… everywhere we find estranged family members. It’s become so common that people don’t bat an eyelid when discussing it.
Online cooking classes
Remote employees do not have to worry about the temptations of cake in the breakroom or impromptu lunches out. Yet, working from home might still not mean you get to eat nutritious meals. One way to encourage you to eat balanced meals, is to start a healthy cooking club.
In a club, you can swap healthy recipes via a collaborative Google Doc or link collector, upload pictures of finished dishes to a cloud-based photo album and share tips.
Sip your way to happiness with this water tracker.
Plant Nanny is a cute water reminder app that keeps track of how much water you drink, motivating you to drink water daily and solving the low water intake problem that most of us face. Each glass of water you drink helps grow the cute plants in Plant Nanny so you can both thrive!
Stub out smoking before getting hooked
Despite all the health warnings we get about smoking, one in five of us is a smoker. Yet even as new smokers pick up the habit every day, more people are starting to wish they never had.
Did you know that the vast majority of smokers want to quit? When smokers in America were surveyed, almost 70% said they wanted to kick the habit. But simply stopping is not that easy.
Solidarity by candlelight
On the third Sunday of May, light a candle for everyone whose life has been touched by Aids. Just like a single candle can push back the dark, every individual has a role to play in building awareness and acceptance.
It has been 40 years since the first International Aids Candlelight Memorial was held in 1983. Back then, it was the darkest years of the epidemic – the disease was mostly fatal and not fully understood.
Free yourself from work stress
Is stress about work keeping you from living your best life? Then it’s time to tackle it and let go of unproductive worry.
We are fortunate to live in a country that guarantees our freedoms and yet many of us find ourselves trapped by work stress. It shouldn’t be this way. A job already provides a number of freedoms, including the ability to put food on the table or the opportunity to shape your future.
Free your mind
Get the mental break that you deserve in your busy life. Giving yourself time each day to meditate is a beautiful gesture of self-love. It is time to relax, renew and free your mind.
Break the chains of social media
Are we truly free? We would like to think so, but the reality is that our minds are being held captive in the digital world. This Freedom Day, let’s focus on liberating ourselves from our social media addiction.
Walking the talk on Human Rights Day 2023
Recognise the humanity of every person who crosses your path – no matter how different they are to you.
Our country’s Bill of Rights is widely acclaimed as one of the most progressive in the world. In its own words, it is “…a cornerstone of democracy in South Africa. It enshrines the rights of all people in our country and affirms the democratic values of human dignity, equality and freedom.”
Why you owe it to yourself to get a TB test
The single largest infectious killer of humans for centuries is a curable disease – and we have the potential to put an end to unnecessary deaths. It all starts with knowledge.
Do you know what the leading cause of death in South Africa is? It may surprise you to learn that it is a treatable disease. Tuberculosis, commonly called TB, takes far too many lives every year. What’s worse, numbers are still climbing.
