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Why Rising Vibe?

18th December 2017

Lou Banks

feel good at work, feeling better, feeling good, finding relief, growth, transformation, work

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Good question. It’s one I’ve been asked quite a lot by both friends and colleagues. The meaning is very significant and resonates deeply with me. So let me explain. Rising Vibe is ultimately, about FEELING GOOD. We all want to feel good, but quite often we don’t. Why is this? How can we start to…

We all want to feel good, right?

21st November 2017

Lou Banks

Imagine genuinely feeling good every day. For real. No pretending. When people ask how we are and we say ‘fine thanks’, we really are fine. Imagine that?! Well, it’s possible. In my keynote speech at the Spa Life International Conference last week in Birmingham, I talked about how, by controlling our thoughts and managing our…

Set your boundaries and then reinforce them!

26th September 2017

Lou Banks

boundaries, Making it Stick, Self Awareness, self development

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Let’s get one thing straight about setting boundaries. Boundaries are not selfish. Boundaries are self-CARE. Selfish is getting stranded on a desert island with a group of people and eating all the food. Selfish is sailing off into the sunset in a 4-man lifeboat and watching our friends drown. We’re being selfish when we’re concerned…

Discomfort verses Resentment.

7th September 2017

Lou Banks

boundaries, growth, Self Awareness, self development

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I’m just going to come out and say it. I hate going to the park. I just don’t enjoy it. Never have. Never will. This isn’t the time or the place to go into why, but there it is. The park SUCKS. So when the kids were little, where did I spend the vast majority…

Pay attention to your thoughts, because thoughts become things

6th April 2017

Lou Banks

growth, Learning, self development

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In other words, it’s time to get wise to all that chat going on inside our heads, because what we think about can manifest as reality. You’d be amazed how often people talk to me about their fear of presentations. They just hate them because they believe they’re not very good at them. The closer…

Role modelling for real change

30th March 2017

Lou Banks

growth, Learning, self development

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When my daughter Martha was little, like most pre-school kids, she was terrible at sharing. The tantrums at play dates were becoming a problem and I knew it was serious when we weren’t getting invited out as much as we used to. I needed my Mum mates. So for my sanity at least, things had…

Making Learning Stick through Attention Density.

6th February 2017

Lou Banks

Attention Density, change, Making it Stick

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Do you ever find yourself saying things like ‘I have no confidence when it comes to public speaking,’ or ‘I’m really terrible at Maths,’ or even the dreaded ‘I’m not good enough.’ If you’re running negative internal dialogue, you’ll become your own self-fulfilling prophecy. Telling yourself day after day that you have no confidence, guarantees…

Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton. Mindful leaders?

16th November 2016

Lou Banks

leadership, Mindfulness, work

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Ok, ok. Go wipe the coffee from your laptop screen, take a deep breath and hear me out. Donald Trump has said some pretty controversial things. His comments are considered unacceptable to many. But we all know this. And there will be a million blogs out there telling us what we already know. What interests…

Resilience V Endurance.

28th July 2016

Lou Banks

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve been working hard lately. I mean, really hard. Since Easter, I’ve had the tantalising taste of summer in my mouth (gin cocktails anyone?) and a to-do list as long as my arm. So, every day I’ve woken up and given myself a pep talk. ‘You’re nearly there…’ and…

The importance of connection in the workplace

29th April 2016

Lou Banks

connection, social pain, stress, work

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You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family…or your work colleagues. Thrown together through luck and circumstance, we spend at least half of our lives working alongside people, we otherwise might not have met. Every workplace is a rich tapestry of individuals with different ideas, views and morals. So, like every dysfunctional…

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