To feel our best we need high quality rest

My High Quality Pause Commitment

This is a simple experiment during May 2019 to help each of us keep the promise to ourselves of protecting one moment per day for a ‘High Quality Pause’.

To Help Our Brain Find A Moment like This…

In a Nutshell:

Post your High Quality Pause Commitment here today - takes 1 minute - live in 24h
The behavioural science shows that by making the commitment we inspire others to do the same - how many people do we know who clearly need a moment for them?
For each commitment made before 20th May 2019 Sam will donate £1 to the suicide prevention charity Papyrus (to a maximum value of £500).

You can search for HQP commitments here or just scroll down

Sam T - my second HQP moment this week will be

May 11, 2019

To sit down and play and a game of Bananagrams with each of my daughters. (All our phones will be in a different room while we play).

Sam T - My HQP this week is:

May 11, 2019

At around 5pm, put my phone on silent, in a drawer and go and sit in the garden for 5 mins. I will take 4 slow, deep, focused breaths while adjusting to being outside and slowing down form the rush of the day.

What key people are saying + Gratitude Facts:

"Expressing gratitude is a profound sign of a relationship, and is often far more deeply appreciated than we can ever realise. It’s a positive, even a healing thing. So Gratitude Week is a wonderful opportunity to make it clear that care and service do indeed make important relationships, and that they work both ways, for giver and receiver. "

Dr Rowan Williams, Master Magdalene College Cambridge University

"My gratitude goes to Cambridge in a wide sense, because of the breadth of transition we are experiencing.In particular, I would like to recognise Dr Jane Osbourn, VP for Research & Development at MedImmune for the remarkable role she has played in making our vision for Cambridge a reality.With our talented team and the support of the Cambridge community, I am convinced we will together make a tremendous and real difference to the lives of patients in Cambridge, in the UK and around the world.”

Gratitude Week quote - Pascal Soriot, Chief Executive Officer, AstraZeneca

"I would like to thank teachers and all those involved in education everywhere for their work in helping children today so that tomorrow can be better. Societies progress by developing the values, skills, knowledge and aspirations of their young people. Schools and colleges are central to this essential task and in bringing the best out of children they enhance the future."

Ed Wiseman, Headmaster, Perse School

"I would like to express my gratitude for the hard work of city council staff whose contributions can often pass by unappreciated. They are all committed to doing their best for the city and our residents and Cambridge is a much better place as a result of their efforts."

Antoinette Jackson, Chief Executive, Cambridge City Council

“In my world of continual performance measures, it is all-too-easy to concentrate on those that require improvement rather than recognise those that continue to excel: So I would like to take this opportunity to offer my personal thanks to our employees for every time that they have “gone the extra mile” and not just delivered satisfaction but delight; thank you.”

Jamie Vindis - Vindis Group