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Taking charge of the mid-life change at 40+

Taking charge of the mid-life change To progress, we have to change. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything“, George Bernard Shaw once said. Change is not always inevitable, not when it is an internal change that is the catalyst for an outward course correction. Change is …

Identifying early signs of Mental Health issues with 40+

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Knowing how to spot the early signs of mental health-related issues can help reduce their severity. Mental health issues can include a wide range of different conditions, which include but are not limited to: Eating disorders Depression Schizophrenia Anxiety Addictive behaviours Identifying these can, in some instances, delay or prevent a larger mental health illness …

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Saving Money with 40+

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7 easy ways to spend less on nosh Make a meal plan Time to get militant about your meals. Sit down on a Sunday and plan your meals for the coming week, then make a shopping list based on those ingredients. Shopping this way means you only buy what you really need, avoids waste and …

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Ready Money with 40+

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Most people aren’t as well off as you might think. According to the Money Advice Service, four out of ten adults in the UK have less than £500 saved away to cover an unexpected bill. By slowly building up a cash cushion in your account, you give yourself the ability to prepare for any nasty …

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Unhelpful Thinking with 40+

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Unhelpful Thinking Habits Over the years, we tend to get into unhelpful thinking habits such as those described below. We might favour some over others, and there might be some that seem far too familiar. Once you can identify your unhelpful thinking styles, you can start to notice them – they very often occur justbefore …

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Unhelpful Thinking Solutions with 40+

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Unhelpful Thinking Solutions @ 40+ (This information was sourced from https://www.getselfhelp.co.uk//unhelpful.htm) Over the years, we tend to get into unhelpful thinking habits such as those described below. We might favour some over others, and there might be some that seem far too familiar. Once you can identify your unhelpful thinking styles, you can start to notice …

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Challenge Your Gender Bias (Part 3)… at 40+

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Challenge Your Gender Bias (Part 3) Gender Bias? Historically, WOMEN have suffered most, As victims of sexism, primarily due to their lower power position, relative to men in business, politics and government, employment etc. Could this be that although women have provided men with “structural” power, men have provided women with Are you aware of the Bystander …

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Diets at 40+, Are They So Difficult?

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Difficult Diets at 40+ Diets. Do you ever try diets, looking for something ideal and then end up baulking at the sheer complexity of calculations put before you? Does simple become hard work when it comes to cutting calories and dropping pounds? There is a simple solution. The formula is X goes in, Y is what …

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Dress Your Age at 40+

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Dress Your Age …at 40+? NO!!! What does that even mean? Who has the right to tell you to dress your age? You do! It’s a three-way relationship between you, your budget and your mirror. How do you feel about yourself, in what you are wearing? Is someone out there telling you to dress your age …

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Challenge Your Gender Bias (Part 2)… at 40+

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Challenge Your Gender Bias (Part 2)… at 40+ Having read Challenge You Gender Bias (Part 1), I’m glad you stuck around for Part 2. Gender bias or inequality is an issue in and around the workplace. Here are a few examples of gender bias that you may have encountered, some obvious, some not so much. …

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Challenge Your Gender Bias (Part 1)… at 40+

Ali ·

Challenge Your Gender Bias at 40+ So, as a sort of continuation of my previous post, Stay At Home Dad, I wanted to ask you, yes YOU, whether you recognise Gender Bias in your own day to day thoughts and behaviours? It would be way too easy to ask if you actively expressed gender bias….I’ve …

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Stay at home Dad … at 40+

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So, instead of Stay at home dad, what I really wanted to write as a heading, was… GENDER DIFFERENCES, FEWER THAN YOU THINK… Why? I hear you ask all at once….. Well, for the last 4 months, May, June, July and August, I’ve been a “stay at home dad”… and, to be honest, it is the single most challenging …

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Prostate Cancer Awareness at 40+

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Prostate Cancer, are you aware? 1 IN 8 MEN IN THE UK WILL GET PROSTATE CANCER Jacamo is proud to support Prostate Cancer UK who are on a mission to tame prostate cancer within the next 10 years. When it comes to making change happen, money talks. We want to help raise much-needed funds to stop prostate cancer in its tracks. We’ve teamed up with Freddie …

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Improving Your Credit with 40+

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Improving your credit with 40+, Take the stress out of money managing… Improving your credit at 40+ aims to help with improving your credit status, so that next time you’re applying for a loan or bank reference, you don’t have to worry about being turned down. So let’s start with answering a few questions… Are …

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Budget Plan with 40+

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Budget plan at 40+ (please stifle your yawns for 5 minutes…) Budget plan at 40+ may sound boring and, yes it is. It’s almost like hard work, but like most kinds of hard work, it is truly rewarding, I mean literally. Pen, paper, calculator, memories of maths at school…STOP. Put all that aside and let’s …

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