CBT

Last year I attended a course on CBT, (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) through work. I had read a little on CBT prior to that and was interested to find out more.

Now, I have to say the course was free to anyone who was interested as it was being delivered by a CBT student and it was also slightly awkward as it was a group session with teachers from a variety of local schools attending. So, therefore everyone was slightly awkward about talking about anything too personal.

However, there were loads of really useful tools and techniques which I'll cover in more detail in the future. 

For example one I really liked was to imagine you are on your deathbed and your grandson/daughter or niece/nephew has come to see you. What advice would you give them about life?

Don't focus on work too much, spend as much time as possible with your family, make sure you have a job you love, make sure you focus on hobbies and passions like sport as well as work. 

That  was my list in summary.

All well and good then

However, the sting in the tail is that this is actually advice to yourself now.

So give it a try, what advice would you give to a young relative when you are on your last legs?

Then try to measure your own life now against the list of priorities you come up with.

It may give you an interesting insight into your own priorities and allow you to start to focus on what is really important to you.


Cheers