Sticky Learning Lunch #2: How to Overcome Isolation When Cabin Fever is Starting to Take Hold

Understand the 3 stages of isolation and how to overcome them, when cabin fever is starting to take hold. Use your time working from home to become the very best version of yourself.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Amazing. Welcome everybody. I'm just watching the screen on the right hand side here. We've got a few more people coming in. Gonna give it another minute just to let any of those people that have signed up come in and uh, attend and take part in this. So let's make sure you've got kind of 30, 30 to 60 seconds. Let's make sure you've guys got drinks. So you've got your fluids in front of you and I haven't got mine's. Grab mine ringing out the last of that teabag.

Nathan Simmonds:

Let's also make sure what we're doing is let's get ourselves set up for success for the next 20 to 30 minutes. Making sure everyone get the phones out, get your phones on flight mode. He says we're on flight mode. Zero distractions. You've got your drinks in front of you, phones on flight mode. Any of you that don't need to be on your social media right now, if you've got LinkedIn, if you've got Facebook, if you've got WhatsApp, open on anything, let's turn those off.

Working from home comes with its cons

 

Nathan Simmonds:

Let's get maximum attention into where we are right now. I wanna share some ideas with you guys that are gonna really help, quite frankly to keep you sane in these times, especially when you are working from home. Okay, so this is gonna be super important. Zero distractions, absolute focus. Full attention on where we're going. Good. Couple more people come into the room.

Nathan Simmonds:

It's nice. So phones off, drinks in front of you. Next thing notepads. Nice clean sheet. Let's get your notepads in front of you. Pen, paper ready so you can start to take some notes. Any of the ideas that I share today, I want you to make a note of them, doodle it down, put the key words down so that when you read this again afterwards or you've got any questions later, that you can fire this up really quickly, that it sparks a new level of imagination and thinking when you're going back through that, oh yeah, I remember Nathan said that, or I remember someone asked this.

Nathan Simmonds:

Bring that back to your memory. So it's continually helping you to learn more about the content even after the event. Good. Got a good handful of people here. Let's do this. So welcome. This is Sticky Lunches. The sticky learning lunches.

Nathan Simmonds:

It's gonna be 20 minutes of content to help you be the best version of yourself in these times. Okay? Huge amounts of change going on, huge volumes of transition and transformation that are taking place right now. So this is a great time for us to really excel in ourselves. My name's Nathan Simmons and I'm senior leadership coach for the team at NBM. And I'm gonna bring you a series of 20 minute learnings, micro lessons with q and a at the end of it over the next 3, 4, 5, 6 weeks.

Nathan Simmonds:

Whatever's required for you guys to help you do that and help you accomplish and help you succeed in working from home. 'cause we're the home of sticky learning and we wanna make this stuff stick. We wanna make sticky lunches stick. So what we're covering today, the key thing that we're covering today is the eye from the mindset model.

Nathan Simmonds:

I stands for isolation Bonus points. First question to you guys in the chat question box where you wanna go? Name three stories or films that talk about isolation. Three films or three stories that talk about isolation. And the reason I'm doing this, and the reason I'm asking is 'cause these story, these stories and these ideas are gonna help you, absolutely. Gonna help you to focus on because they're teaching you stuff. So when you are watching Castaway, when you are reading Robinson Cruso, yeah,