Healthy Lifestyle Commitment: Your Partnership for Life
The healthy lifestyle commitment is different from a 'getting in shape' promise, or a 'keep fit' vow made post-party. My healthy lifestyle is the result of step-by-step lifestyle changes. These days my body and mind tell me what I need. Do yours? I know what I have to...
New Look: Faster, Stronger and Closer
We’re back with a new look. The GOODista healthy lifestyle blog is faster, stronger and closer to you than ever. Some you can see, and other parts you will experience. Wanna Feel, Be and Do it? You're more than welcome to surf around let us know what you...
Walk The Talk: 100 km for Charity (and Fitness)
Some of us talk about helping those in need. Others act. A few walk the talk - humanitarian aid workers, Good Will Ambassadors and a rare group of slightly mad alternative solution finders. Anna is one of those. Read about how Anna does good - step by step. By walking...
Recipe: Avocado Beetroot Salad
This recipe for avocado beetroot salad will inspire healthy summer food ease. You can enjoy this as a meal on its own. Bring it along when you're invited for a BBQ. Plan a summer menu, and have this as a vegetarian protein booster. It's easy, yummy and healthy....
Cognitive Dissonance: The Belief Change Method (Part 2)
A situation, discussion or thought that is stuck will indicate that you are in the presence of cognitive dissonance. Do you ignore, rationalise and justify your own position without considering new information, evidence and outside influence? Cognitive dissonance can...
Cognitive Dissonance: Trigger For Change
You like your truth, and you hold on to it as if life itself depended on it. The theory of cognitive dissonance explains why we rationalise away, ignore or add new arguments to accommodate the tension we feel when new information threaten our points of view. Your...
Recipe: Beetroot Marinated Salmon
Summer and light dishes go together, and if you add beetroot marinated salmon to your recipe collection you have a winner. The Nordic diet is hailed as one of the healthiest for good reason. It may come as a surprise to you that Nordic food is wholesome and full of...
The Networking Guide to International Jobs
Networking done right can land your international job and is an integral part of a job search strategy. If networking isn't your thing, it becomes a necessary learning curve. Contacts and connections may give you tips on how to find jobs that aren't yet advertised,...
Digital Detox: How to Unplug and Reconnect
Do you need a digital detox? Switching off all devices, laptops, computers, trackers and internal networks can be mind-boggling as a thought. Our world today is built on connectivity, and to voluntarily unplug goes against the grain. Those that have tried a digital...
Alcohol and Your Job: Are You At Risk?
Alcohol and your job go together if you are a pilot, doctor, aid worker or bar tender. You're considered high risk, and employers look at what you do on and off-shift. Why are these professions more prone to heavy drinking? The irregular schedules, stress and...
