The Spirit of Business working from the inside out
BY JILLY GABRIELSON, Wellbeing Mentor, Bright Spark Health. Originally shared on Matters Magazine Over the past couple of years, I’ve mentored hundreds of retail owners and staff on Workplace Wellbeing to support them through the business’s ups and downs. When I stripped away all the bells and whistles, it became clear how we overcomplicate business […]
Being Of Service
Today, at my local breakfast café, the manager took my order and mentioned, “We have a lot of new staff and customers coming in at the moment!” Curiously, I asked, “Why do you feel that is happening?” She replied, “Fewer people want to do simple service jobs anymore. Everyone wants to be someone, focusing […]
Intuition
Intuition, often underutilized in business, can be dissected to mean “IN TU I TION,” suggesting the action of delving inward — an act of sensing beyond what is outwardly visible and palpable. Much of our lives are spent looking outward, forming beliefs based on external cues. For instance, “I’m not smart enough to run my […]
Where Are We?
In a space of nowhere yet definitely somewhere… Excited or tuned into something that can make us tingle at times, like electricity running through our bodies… normally this feeling would relate to action, but maybe some of us can’t seem to act on anything. I sometimes feel paralysed to move a millimetre from […]
Are We Trying To Control Our Nature?
I was sitting by the Noosa River looking at the brown water lapping against the ragged shore line littered with broken branches and fallen trees from the recent storms. A couple next to me were sipping on takeaway lattes as they talked about the restaurant they had gone to the previous night and were […]