The Mindapples blog has been our outlet for our thoughts, inspirations and company announcements since 2008. It’s actually how Mindapples started, just blogging about mental health and wellbeing, and inviting people to share what they do that’s good for their minds.
Now we use it in two ways: for occasional announcements and updates about what we’re doing, and to post articles about psychology and health research that could help people get to know their minds better. Browse the recent posts below, and get in touch if you find something interesting that you think we should be reading.
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Mindapple-a-day: Write lists
List writing is a very popular thing that people say they do partly for their wellbeing but also for productivity. It’s good to have a list of all the things you need to do, things that you don’t want to forget, to be organised – it can help to feel more in control of things. But also, […]
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Mindapple-a-day: Complete silence
It’s harder than you’d think to get total silence, there’s always a lot of background burble going on, whether it’s the noises of devices, people or even the sounds of nature. There’s lots of things going on that pull our attention away. The advantage of complete silence is that it allows you to completely focus […]
Continue reading → Mindapple-a-day: Turn email off for 5 minutes
Emails are a pressure of the modern world, people are always able to message us quickly and there’s a sense that we need to respond. It’s not just emails, it’s all kinds of devices, things that alert us to another message or another thing we might need to think about. And these can become distractions. They stop […]
Continue reading → Mindapple-a-day: Sit on a bench
The New Economics Foundation are on a mission to increase wellbeing and came up with ‘The 5 Ways to Wellbeing’ – things that we can incorporate into our routine to benefit our mind. One of these ways is to ‘take notice’, so sitting on a bench relaxing and taking time out to notice things around us […]
Continue reading → Mindapples COVID-19 update: back-to-school edition
Hello everyone, Back in March, before the first major lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, I wrote about what Mindapples would be doing to respond to the crisis. We have been supporting our commercial clients and continuing our training and webinar work, and the Mindapples Charity launched a public campaign to give people support during the […]
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Mindapples’ COVID-19 campaign
Hello everyone, I hope you’re safe and well in these difficult times. I wanted to let you know about the next phase of Mindapples’ response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Last month I posted about what our commercial side is doing to keep ourselves and our clients and partners safe during this crisis, and some […]
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How Mindapples is responding to COVID-19
Hello. Like so many other businesses, I wanted to set out a short update on how Mindapples is dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. The situation is changing all the time but we will respond to this changing threat and play our part in overcoming it. Mindapples is a resilient business. Our commercial and charitable operations […]
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Why we make mistakes under stress
Do you find yourself doing things when you’re stressed that you come to regret later? A 2012 study of behaviour under stress suggests that if we make decisions when we are stressed, we tend to focus on the rewards rather than the risks. This is because acute stress affects the way our brains consider pros […]
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One mind, two systems
In his award-winning 2011 book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman has popularised the ‘dual-systems’ theory of cognition, and we’ve found it a very useful concept for helping participants in our workplace training programmes to understand and manage their minds better. The central idea that we have two modes of cognitive thinking, an automatic, fast […]
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The surprising truth about what motivates us
What really motivates us? Employers have long assumed monetary rewards are key to incentivising their workforce, but the reality is more complex. Autonomy, mastery and a sense of purpose are often bigger motivators than simple financial incentives. In this RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA (and his excellent book of the […]
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