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10th October every year is World Mental Health Day.

This year’s theme is “Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority”.

A huge task, especially given how many negative things are currently affecting our world today.

Despite all the challenges around us, each one of us can help improve both our own mental wellbeing, as well as the mental wellbeing of others.

Small steps taken by many can add up to giant leaps for everybody.

So today and everyday, please think about just one aspect of your life that you are grateful for, no matter how big or small this may be. Be thankful for it, remember the feeling it gives you and carry that feeling with you throughout your day.

Please take the time to do this every day - you’ll be surprised the difference it will make to your life.

And if you’d like to help others to have better mental wellbeing too, please just take the opportunity to say hello to someone, thank someone, or pay someone a compliment - these are small and simple things we can all do pretty easily, but what a huge difference they’d make to our world if we all did them each and every day !

Have a lovely day ! 😀

If you run a business, do you care as much about your staff as you do for your clients ?

How do you show you care for and value them equally ?

What practical things do you do in the areas of customer satisfaction and employee wellbeing which clearly demonstrate you care for both ?

What metrics do you regularly measure for both, to check if what you do is working ?

If you’re now thinking perhaps you don’t value them as equally as you originally thought, perhaps it’s time to do something about that ?

Travelling back home from Aberdeenshire today, after a lovely trip to see the folks here.
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My first visit since the pandemic hit and also my first time seeing our ‘new’ niece in person. She’s completely adorable, as well as being a real cheeky monkey ! 🥰
She certainly knows how to keep her three older brothers in check too !

I’d forgotten just how beautiful Scotland is, especially in the sunshine, which thankfully put in an appearance every day during my visit.☀️

If you’ve never spent any time North of the border, I’d seriously recommend you try it before thinking of going abroad somewhere.

Beautiful scenery, wonderful people and big hairy cows with huge horns - what more could you ask for ?! Well, apart from maybe temperatures in the double figures ! Although when the sun’s out even 9 degrees seems positively tropical with a body warmer on ! (almost ! 🥶).

Being among lots of greenery, seeing the sea and spending time with loved ones really is a tonic ! 🌲🌊👨‍👩‍👧 😀 Far more therapeutic than any pills, potions or visits to the gym (not that I’ve been for a while !)

Can’t wait for the next visit (when double digit temperatures will hopefully put in a regular appearance !)