38 Degrees North Blog

This morning I just felt a bit ‘bleurgh”. You know the feeling… flat, demotivated, tired. That’s actually pretty rare for me. Then before I jumped into beating myself up mode I forced myself to have a think why that might be. Let’s see, flown out to Ibiza, packed up our lives, said goodbye to the […]

There’s a lot of uncertainty around at the moment, and inevitably that causes anxiety and fear. We’re hard wired to seek certainty, to want to know the outcomes, it’s part of our evolutionary survival mechanism. You see our sub-conscious always seeks to keep us safe, and for the sub-conscious safe equals familiar. This is why

You Might Not Want To Hear This… Sorry to break it to you, but there’s not that much time left for 2020 (although that may be a relief for many of us!). Now, how you view that will actually determine your outcomes for 2021. Let me explain. Some people will look at the three and

We fear failure. It’s a hard wired response. Yet failure ultimately gives us our best opportunities to grow. We all fail. Here’s the thing, failure is only failure if you let it be. If your failure is complete. When we fail, we’ve just learned a way NOT to do something. So try again a different

Most of us aren’t getting enough sleep. Fact. Research shows that an adult needs between 7 to 9 hours every night for adequate cognitive and physical recovery. Even getting by on 6 hours a night impairs your performance over time.I’ll cover the fascinating subject of sleep in another post (and we’ve got a great podcast

Ah the dreaded spare tire. Useful in a flat tire situation, not so useful when it’s slung around your belly. Truth is, a lot of us (me included) are prone to holding onto fat on our abdomen. Why? Well evolutionary wise it was probably as good a place as any to store it… Here are