Articles
We invite you to explore the library of articles below. We have compiled these resources to support your journey towards sustainable Mental Fitness.
A-Z to GMF
What is your ‘R’ to getting mentally fit? Wow, we’re at the end of Term 3 and hands up if you, your children, family members, or your friends are a little fried. Athletes have long know that recovery is the single most important part of any training or exercise program. R-ecovery allows for improved performance, […]
A-Z to GMF, Program, Wellbeing Hacks
What is your ‘Q’ to getting mentally fit? Is it just me or is silence a rarer commodity these days? Considering the World Health Organization has previously called noise pollution ‘a modern plague’, how seriously do we need to factor in quiet time each day? So, I’m suggesting, this fortnight is a licence for all […]
A-Z to GMF, Mental Fitness, Program
What is your ‘P’ to getting mentally fit? As Southern States enter the toughest conditions of the Pandemic so far, how do we find a silver lining to this situation? A business leader recently shared with me, that his team are feeling involuntarily fatigued. He described their situation as if they were frogs trapped in […]
A-Z to GMF, Mental Toughness, Program
What is your ‘O’ to getting mentally fit? We’re talking about O not a zero this fortnight. Whilst our movement on the East Coast of Oz is tightening up it would be easy to get disconnected and in a funk. However, there has never been a better time for the A-Z community to get innovative […]
A-Z to GMF, Developing Mental Fitness, Program
What is your ‘N’ to getting mentally fit? This fortnight we give the saying ‘talk to the hand’ a fresh spin and support this with evidence-based findings that suggests ‘saying NO’ at the appropriate time is good for our well-being. So…this fortnight we’re going to escape the mask filled urban jungle and head to one […]
Education, Growth Mindset, Mental Toughness
D21: Learning Making Shaping education conference – Dwight School, Seoul Korea What will last to shape successful schools of the future? How can education remain relevant in order to meet the needs of students, teachers and families? We proposed that Mental Fitness will be the game changer for education to meet the needs of 21-century […]
A-Z to GMF, Program, Wellbeing Hacks
WHAT IS YOUR ‘M’ TO GETTING MENTALLY FIT? For the practical activity this fortnight, we are going to create 3 life M-ottos. This activity will not only support us to develop healthy future thinking and behaviours but we will willingly encourage our clients to adopt these same mottos if they are appropriate to them. How […]
A-Z to GMF, Mental Toughness, Program
What is your ‘L’ to getting mentally fit? For the practical activity this fortnight, we are going to L-earn something new so we can enhance our skills of supporting our own and other people’s mental fitness. You could consciously focus on L-earning activities; paddle on a L-ake; play L-asertag; build some L-ego; enjoy some L-eisure […]
A-Z to GMF, Developing Mental Fitness, Program
What is your ‘K’ to getting mentally fit? For the practical activity this fortnight, we’re hoping that everyone will join us as we consciously focus on carrying out acts of K-indness. This could include planting or nurturing a tree; creating a hand made card or bookmark for someone; starting or contributing to a fund raiser; […]
A-Z to GMF, Developing Mental Fitness, Program
What is your ‘J’ to getting mentally fit? Between September last year and January this year we undertook, and completed, a 2000 piece world map J-igsaw. Our motivation for doing this was to spend less time watching television and to spend more time being mindful and improving our cognition. Funny enough, when we finally completed […]
News, Program
Eligible small businesses from across Queensland are able to apply for a $5,000 grant to increase core skills and adopt best practice when the program opens on 31 May 2021. Check your eligibility To be eligible to apply for this grant, the business must: Have fewer than 20 employees (by head count) at the time […]
A-Z to GMF, Habit Forming, Program
What is your ‘I’ to getting mentally fit? Because we enjoyed creating our holiday storyboard so much, the team at Get Mentally Fit are going to create an i-nspiration board for our practical activity relating to ‘I’. Our i-nspiration board will be focused on aligning our values with our medium-term life vision. 5 positive impacts […]
A-Z to GMF, Mental Fitness, Program
What is your ‘H’ to getting mentally fit? For the practical activity relating to ‘H’, the team at Get Mentally Fit are going to focus on planning H-oliday activities for later in the year. It is well documented that holiday recovery periods can significantly decrease stress, strengthen immune function and boost creativity. By dedicated, and […]
A-Z to GMF, Habit Forming, Program
What is your ‘G’ to getting mentally fit? For the practical activity relating to ‘G’, the team at Get Mentally Fit are going to start a G-ratitude journal. Is it just us or has anyone else noticed that a lot of people are a little mentally fatigued after the first quarter of this year? If […]
A-Z to GMF, Habit Forming, Program
What is your ‘F’ to getting mentally fit? For the practical activity relating to ‘F’, the team at Get Mentally Fit are going to attack our F-riday list. What is our Friday list you ask? Read on to find out… Essentially, a Friday list is another practical mental fitness exercise that is ideally designed to […]
A-Z to GMF, Habit Forming, Program
What is your ‘E’ to getting mentally fit? For the practical activity relating to ‘E’, the team at Get Mentally Fit are going to read 1 topic of the children’s E-ncyclopedia Britannica to our daughter Alora nightly. Considering Seligman’s PERMA model, relating to authentic happiness, this activity will support the attainment of all 5 key […]
A-Z to GMF, Character Strengths, Program
What is your ‘D’ to getting mentally fit? For the practical activity relating to ‘D’, the team at Get Mentally Fit are going to tap into our D-avid Attenborough within. This will involve getting amongst the beautiful natural environments surrounding the Gold Coast. The benefits of nature connectedness and allowing yourself thinking time are well […]
Book Summary, Habit Forming
Traction draws you towards what you want in life, distraction pulls you away Distraction, it turns out, is not about the distraction itself; rather, it’s about how we respond to it. Indistractable offers fantastic insights into the mechanisms of distraction and a systematic approach to creating behaviours that can help people avoid distractions and maintain […]
A-Z to GMF, Character Strengths, Program
What is your ‘C’ to getting mentally fit? For the practical activity relating to ‘C’, the team at Get Mentally Fit are going to identify a C-harity, that aligns with our values, who we can effectively support as we grow. Like many other passionate organisations and individuals, we have identified that we are in the […]
A-Z to GMF, Mental Toughness, Program
What is your ‘B’ to getting mentally fit? For the ‘B’ activity, the team at Get Mentally Fit are going to be BOLD. Forming strategic partnerships and increasing awareness of the value of our programs and services are key actions for us in the coming fortnight. For us, we will be knocking on doors and […]
Book Summary, Habit Forming
Control the Day or the Day will control you Being capable of achieving what you set out to do takes life control. People with effective life control are good at planning and time management and when required are comfortable when completing several things simultaneously. An equally important trait, they have the mental toughness to say […]
A-Z to GMF, Growth Mindset, Program
A-Z to getting mentally fit program. A – 20th January – 3rd February What is your ‘A’ to getting mentally fit? For our A activity, the team at Get Mentally Fit are going to try archery. We are sick of driving past the archery centre down the road, saying ‘we really want to try that […]
A-Z to GMF, News, Program
Welcome to the program We’re really excited that you have committed to partaking in our A-Z program. We see the beginning, and our role in this, as like a dandelion being blown and the seeds (you the participants) freely floating to where they will grow. Enjoy the program and we hope that this activity will […]
A-Z to GMF, Program
Our motivation for developing this program… From the knowing – to the doing – to the being Do you sometimes find yourself regretting not making time for an activity that you were really keen to participate in? Would you like to invest a little more of your time, or your whole family’s time, undertaking fun […]
Featured, Growth Mindset
Post-traumatic Growth – profoundly positive for Mental Fitness You may be familiar with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), however are you familiar with Post-traumatic Growth (PTG)? Affording ourselves optimistic licence (Growth Mindset), we can consider ourselves in extremely fertile ground for unexpected positive outcomes as we embark on 2021. It could be easy to blindly think […]
Character Strengths
Rather than just going through the motions, can we effectively employ knowledge relating to our unique character strengths to help us to thrive? Considering the associated research, and our direct experience…YES! Research has shown many positive benefits of using character strengths across physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual domains. These benefits have been especially noted […]
Character Strengths
We are all truly one of a kind Relevant literature, considering philosophies of human virtues, reveals a surprising amount of similarity across cultures and strongly indicates a historical and cross-cultural convergence of six core virtues: Courage, Justice, Humanity, Temperance, Transcendence, and Wisdom. The number of potential character strengths profiles, which are catagorised into the 6 […]
Character Strengths
We all need evidence-based, practical strategies that when employed ensure that we flourish personally and professionally. The VIA Character Strengths Survey is directly linked to the fundamentals of Positive Psychology, which makes it a perfect place to start. Enablers of positive change Researchers have recently identified seven personal factors, which can move us from surviving […]
Developing Mental Fitness
Now that we know the benefits of being mentally tough, as discussed throughout the 8 Factors of Mental Toughness article, let’s look at what we can do to improve our resilience to stress, change and life challenges. Whilst we would love the power of waving a wand that instantly enhances your mental fitness, unfortunately it’s […]
Developing Mental Fitness
The 8 Factors of Mental Toughness you need to know Our introduction to mental toughness looked at how the Four C’s – challenge, confidence, commitment and control – can start to measure a person’s toughness or sensitivity to stressors like high pressure situations or challenges at work or in their private life. The reason Clough, […]
Developing Mental Fitness
Managing Stress, Pressures and Life Challenges No matter your ambitions in life, mental toughness is an extremely valuable quality that can hold massive influence over your level of success and quality of life. This is because, as stated by Clough and Strycharczyk in 2011: “mental toughness has been found to hold a direct influence over […]
Character Strengths, Featured
Can you measure your Superpowers? Undertaking the ‘VIA Character Strengths Survey’ can reliably measure your inherent character strengths, enabling you to start developing an understanding of these characteristics in action. Within positive psychology, personal strengths are defined as our built-in capacities for particular ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving (Linley, 2008). We all possess a […]
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