Cadence Approach

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Workplace wellness: four factors that make a happy, healthy and resilient human being

Burnout Prevention, Cadence Approach, Resilience, Wellbeing / By / 3 minutes of reading

In Q&As I’m often asked what makes a happy, healthy and resilient human being, specifically in a work context. By this I mean an office environment or equivalent. It’s an interesting question because it’s where many of us spend most of each week. So you’d think we’d have workplace wellness nailed down by now. But […]

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Small Changes Have A Big Impact Over Time

Burnout Prevention, Cadence Approach, Recovery, Resilience, Sleep, Stress, Wellbeing / By / 4 minutes of reading

About a year ago, I received an alert from Apple Fitness. It told me I was burning on average 31 fewer calories per day than the same time a year ago. Initially I thought little of it. What’s 31 calories? It’s nothing. Then it struck me that this adds up. These seemingly small changes might

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VALUE: How to Create a Culture of Wellbeing in Your Organisation

Burnout Prevention, Cadence Approach, Stress, Wellbeing / By / 3 minutes of reading

After I deliver my keynote, I’m often asked by the HR / People teams for suggestions on embedding the notion of cadence into the culture. Whilst we do more structured work on this with some of our clients, there is a basic framework that anyone who’s heard my content can adopt. It’s called VALUE, and

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Diversity Promotes Resilience: the Power of Social Connectedness

Cadence Approach, Nature, Resilience, Wellbeing / By / 3 minutes of reading

Many of you will have read or heard me tell stories of my time at Lynbreck Croft. If you haven’t, you can find out more about it here. It’s an 150-acre regenerative farm in the Cairngorms, Scotland, run by our friends, Lynn and Sandra. During our most recent visit, we accompanied them to a local

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The Benefits of Daily Non-Negotiables for ‘Staying Ready’

Burnout Prevention, Cadence Approach, Recovery, Resilience / By / 2 minutes of reading

How can we prepare for the unpredictable? In this blog post, I want to talk about the benefits of daily non-negotiables for staying ready. The Cadence Approach is my methodology for beating burnout and performing in life and work. It teaches you to take ownership of your health and wellbeing, and is  inspired by athletes

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Cycling Through Deep Snow: A Metaphor For Dealing With Overwhelm

Cadence Approach, Resilience, Wellbeing / By / 5 minutes of reading

In 2019, my partner Antonia and I took part in the world’s toughest ski race. To find out what we did, watch this video and listen to this podcast. Last month, we went on another Arctic adventure, which provided a valuable metaphor for overwhelm that I want to share with you. This one, called the

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My Origin Story & Creating the Cadence Approach

Cadence Approach, Recovery, Stress, Wellbeing / By / 5 minutes of reading

I’m frequently asked about my ‘origin story’; how I got into wellbeing and then went on to create the Cadence Approach. So here’s a summary, taken from my bestselling book, Cadence – a finalist in this year’s Business Book Awards! How it started To explain how the Cadence Approach came about, I must first go

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Why book a professional speaker for your event?

Burnout Prevention, Cadence Approach, Wellbeing / By / 4 minutes of reading

To the great delight of both companies and speakers, the last 12 months has seen the return of live, in-person events. I do know a few people who enjoyed virtual speaking, and believe there are many upsides. However, as a professional speaker myself, I can say most of us thrive best in a live environment,

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What to do if every day feels like a big event

Burnout Prevention, Cadence Approach, Recovery, Resilience, Wellbeing / By / 3 minutes of reading

The Cadence Approach is about managing energy. There are four steps; identify the big (predictable) events coming up in your professional and personal life; prepare by making small improvements in sleep, nervous system management and energy; perform, but respect your red flags (don’t go too fast) and then recover by prioritising slivers of recovery into

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Baby Steps: getting started with the Cadence Approach™

Cadence Approach, Wellbeing / By / 3 minutes of reading

It’s easy to overestimate what you can achieve in a short period of time, and underestimate what you can achieve in the long term. We can also trip ourselves up by overcomplicating things; Google anything to do with health and wellbeing and you’ll get thousands of results. It can be bewildering and can lead to

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