Skills for Life Archives - Happy Being You

Here’s why you check your emails in bed.

by Ann Brown | Sep 12, 2024 | Self-awareness, Skills for Life

Sometimes I yearn for the days before the internet, when the TV output became a dark fuzzy hum late at night. It stayed that way until the next morning, and no-one complained! If you wanted to be in touch with someone far away, you could telephone them. We used a...

How I reclaimed calm in my life from an unexpected place (and you can too.)

by Ann Brown | Sep 4, 2024 | Self-awareness, Skills for Life

From the outside you’d think my life is pretty calm and stress-free. I live in a beautiful area in rural Scotland. Nature surrounds me. I have woodland trails on my doorstep. There’s open fields and fresh country air filled with birdsong. But I often can’t...

Building assertiveness: How to deal with someone who never does what you want them to do.

by Ann Brown | Feb 9, 2024 | Skills for Life

Wouldn’t it be lovely to live in a world where people treat others with thoughtfulness and respect. Treating everyone with the same kindness and generosity they would hope for themselves. Instead, it often seems as if the people you have to deal with are thoughtless...

5 Reasons why making sense of your difficult emotions matters

by Ann Brown | May 18, 2023 | Self-awareness, Skills for Life

We all experience a wide range of emotions in our daily lives, whether we choose to tune into them or not. We tend to notice when we’re feeling ‘positive’ emotions such as happiness, joy or love. But many of us have a tendency to block out our ‘negative’...

What your unhelpful habits say about you.

by Ann Brown | Mar 23, 2023 | Self-awareness, Skills for Life

We all like to feel that we’re in control of what happens to us and how we behave. But very often there are things we seem to do over and over. Even though we know they’re not helpful, we can’t seem to stop. Once you realise where these unhelpful habits really come...

The biggest lie you need to stop believing to be more confident.

by Ann Brown | Feb 2, 2023 | Self-awareness, Skills for Life

Life would be much easier and more fun if we were blessed with abundant confidence in all areas of our lives. But it seems that life blesses some people with natural confidence and others are left wanting to be more confident. We might look at people who appear...