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If you were to choose from three core drivers of success in your organisation right now, which would you choose as your highest priority – Innovation, Agility or Trust?

The latest research pinpoints that one of the most important contributing factors to ageing well, is having trusted and nurturing relationship… not more connections on social media – more ‘real’ relationships.

If you were able to apply a formula to determine your competency, you could add up your skills, plus your knowledge, plus your attributes. But your competency is pretty useless if it’s not being applied in meaningful and intentional ways to make life better for yourself and for others. Just having competency isn’t enough – without intentional action, you’re just competent.

If you want to become a masterful communicator, start with being clear on your intention for the person or people you are about to communicate with by asking yourself “What do I want FOR this person?” This more altruistic approach to relationship building helps move your focus from what might be “What do I want FROM this person?”. 

Clarity about who you need to be and what you need to do to bring more trust into your professional and personal life, might sometimes need you to look through a different lens. 

The latest scientific and behavioural research seems to suggest the often-touted mantra of many motivational speakers and life-success gurus to ‘Find Your Passion’ might not be good advice.

If we’ve lost trust in who we can trust, what impact might this have on our professional and personal life? To help explore this, I’d like you to think for a moment about a scorecard of trust in your life.

In a time where international research suggests that the world is “suffering from stagnant distrust”, gaining a more robust understanding of what it really means to trust is important.

The team at Action For Happiness have come up with a really useful and practical one-page calendar for the month of June with each day providing a different evidence-based strategy to bring more joy in your life, and they’ve cleverly called it Joyful June.

Like many things in life, depending on your perspective, the glass can be half full, or half empty (and every now and then, empty or overflowing).