The TNCo Blog

There are now two worlds that we will identify in our lifetime- BC (Before Corona) and AD- (After the Disease) and I’ve heard talk of calendars almost going back to 1 from April 2020. This may not happen physically, but make no mistake the world as we knew it is over, and we face a new dawn.
 
One of the opportunities of this lockdown time is to consciously re-evaluate our life, Mindfully. The reason why the present is called a gift is that it’s the only moment we have. There are only two unimportant days in your life- one is yesterday and the other is tomorrow. We can’t make any impact in those moments- yet it’s so interesting how much time we spend feeling guilt or regret about past, or constantly worrying about the future, as the present moment is the only moment where we can make an impact.
 
If we don’t pay attention or are constantly on our phones, then we miss that moment. In my presentation, I tell a story about a professor at UCT, who in...

As we go into what will hopefully be the last week of lockdown- how are you feeling?
I feel like its been a roller coaster ride of change- I have some days where I’m astounded at how productive I’ve been. And others, where I can’t concentrate and feel like I go around in circles. I’ve surrendered to that and realised that’s OK, in the middle of what will probably be the biggest shifts and change we see in our lifetimes. There is no one size fits all, in adapting to life during COVID 19.
 
Last week I wrote that Mindfulness- being fully present has been particularly useful for me during this time. This week I’d like to share 4 techniques to practically become more mindful, in the middle of huge change and uncertainty.
 

1. Stop Multi-tasking

No-one can multi-task- not men or women as is often thought, as our brains are a single processing unit. We are designed to do one thing at a time- if we do more than one thing at a time then we just do 2...