“Find your passion and purpose”

I’m fairly frankly in awe of Dr Alex George. He’s an A&E Physician working in a busy London hospital, the Authorities’s Psychological Well being Ambassador, founding father of bathtub bomb firm Prescrib’d and he’s now launched his e book Dwell Properly On a regular basis: Your Plan for a Completely happy Physique and Thoughts to share his experiences, skilled data and life classes – all to assist others assist themselves.

Talking on our podcast I’m. I’ve, Alex displays upon the previous 12 months in lockdown, the demise of his much-loved brother Llŷr and taking outing to look after his personal psychological well being and wellbeing.

**Alex on… **

Self-care

“Self-care is for everybody,” Alex shares. “And when you’re feeling good, it’s what retains you feeling good. You’ll see on my social media that I typically discuss going out for a stroll, or a stomp, and it’s been superb to see folks tag me on their tales, saying they’re doing the identical.”

Alex explains that it brings him actual pleasure to know that persons are taking care of their wellbeing too. “If I can encourage different folks to take care of themselves then that’s a very optimistic factor for me to do.”

Social media

With an Instagram following of virtually 2 million, Alex is sincere about the truth that managing his on-line world might be powerful typically, on high of his many different roles. “It’s a full time job in itself, there’s plenty of accounts with the identical following which have full time groups, however it’s simply me!

“I get actual positivity from it although,” he continues. “It lifts me and it drives me. That doesn’t imply that I don’t get fed up with social media typically, like all of us do.

He believes that it’s vital to take day without work social media once you really feel you have to. “And that’s related if in case you have 100 followers or 1,000,000 followers. You’ll be able to select to not have interaction with it, not go browsing and keep off your cellphone.

“Have a while off social media as a result of it’s actually highly effective, and you are able to do good with it and create a way of neighborhood however it may well additionally drain folks and make them really feel unhealthy. Being conscious, I suppose, is admittedly vital.”

Ardour and Objective

“Ardour and objective is essential to who we’re and to creating us really feel like we’ve got a spot, a job to play and a narrative to stay,” Alex says, increasing upon one of many main themes in his new e book.

“Objective doesn’t should be about your profession,” he explains. “You might need a separate function that you just do, however your objective may very well be utterly unrelated to what you do for an earnings.

“With the book, I actually wished to assist folks take into consideration that. For them to cease and perhaps even write an inventory about all of the issues they take pleasure in, what makes them tick, what makes them joyful and causes them to smile. I then ask if they’re spending time doing that, and what they may change so as to take action.

“Lots of occasions in life after we lose our objective, it is as a result of we’ve stopped doing the issues we take pleasure in.”

Take heed to Alex’s episode of I am. I have
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