motivation

We all do it: It gets to around ten minutes before you’re due to leave for the gym and you think of an excuse why you can’t go. While it may be easy to talk yourself out of exercise, you can’t talk yourself out of the weight gain that comes…

If you want to improve your corporate wellness, you need to sort out how you manage your time in all parts of your daily routine. This is according to Kumar Raghavan of NMDC, who says that most of the successful people in the world…

When you drive past some young, trim jogger out and about, you can feel guilty for not keeping up with your own fitness regime, but do you think these people always feel motivated? The road to better wellness is a tough one, and everyone…

Fitness is not something that just happens on its own. Nor is it something that, once you become fit, automatically stays with you for life. Fitness has to be constantly worked at and achieved, and taking your foot off the pedal can quite…

If you’re in charge of a team, one of the most important skills you can learn is how to motivate others. With the right motivation, your team will be happier and more effective. Motivation can also help increase productivity and improve…

Written By: Tricia Borren Getting in shape is a goal that most people have, especially in the spring when the weather is getting warmer and swimsuit season is looming ahead. However, finding enough…

Often people know what they need to do and how they need to do it – it’s just getting the motivation that can be the problem. Finding a way to improve your motivation can be highly beneficial for your wellness and wellbeing, however, as the…

According to Cliff Oxford, founder of the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurs, there are two types of happiness in a work culture: Human Resources Happy and High Performance Happy. For Oxford, corporate wellness doesn’t come down to employee…

When the thought occurs to you to lose weight, people rarely take a beat to make a wellness plan before leaping into action. However, according to health and fitness expert Michelle Bridges, the trainer famous all over Australia…

To be on TV all the time, you have to look good. This is why so many of us turn to celebrity fitness DVDs, and scour the magazine pages for the latest celebrity wellness tips. One such stunning celeb is Lucy Mecklenburgh, the star of The…

Sometimes, your big fitness goals and the enjoyment of exercising are all you need to get going with your regime; but there are other times, when your energy is lagging, that you need a little something extra. Luckily, there are many little…

Recently, the city of Charlotte issued a challenge to its employees: log your workouts on a website that tallies points for each department. Amongst City Hall, trash talk ensued. Christina Fath, the city’s wellness administrator, recalls…

Losing weight can be an extremely difficult and often frustrating experience – especially if you are impatient about seeing results. Soon your motivation begins to waver and suddenly you find that you’re back to your old size. However, with…

Whether you want improve your wellness with weight loss, or building your muscle tone, working out requires a lot of discipline sustained over a long period of time. Many people who are motivated initially to eat well and exercise more, but…

Type 2 diabetes requires constant monitoring to ensure your wellbeing, which can cause people to be overwhelmed and in denial when they are newly diagnosed with the disease. As a family member of someone with diabetes, you have an important…

When you’re working out and boredom strikes, what do you do? You don’t want to put your fitness on pause, but maybe you do put it on the back-burner and distract yourself by plugging in your IPod or chatting to your neighbour on the next…

To lose weight, the only way you will turn successful is if you have powerful weight loss motivation.  Just kind of wanting to lose weight doesn't seem to get the job done. We take a look at the three main weight loss motivations: The…

Everyone has a different reason for getting up in the morning and going to work. For many people that reason is simple: to pay the bills. It can be more complex, however, and people’s motivation can be varied and unique. Corporate wellness…

The first thing you need to do when exercising is find your motivation. Do you want to up your fitness levels? Lose weight? Enhance your emotional wellbeing? Whatever your wellness goal, fitness trainer and qualified exercise scientist…