Author: Anna Stowers

The COMM:PAKT tip of the week: Be the best version of yourself! Watching world events dramatically play out, we often find ourselves trying to guess what's up ahead. Ok, 2 thoughts here: Everyone does it and nobody is very good at it. We visualize, speculate, catastrophize, glorify ... When we see something different, we rework … Continue reading Drama up ahead

The COMM:PAKT tip of the week: In this challenging season of trying to change habits and behaviours, here's a useful tip on how to automatically make better choices with far less effort: Studies show that when we dine at buffets 3/4 of us pick the 1st food item while 2/3 of us go on to … Continue reading Are you struggling with holding on to those New Year resolutions?

The COMM:PAKT advice of the week: Communicate with your body! Did you know that 55 % of what we “say” is expressed by our body language? This means that the biggest part of our communication is transmitted through our gestures, facial expressions, eye gaze, tone of voice, haptics and appearance. This means our body has … Continue reading Nonverbal Communication

The COMM:PAKT story of the week: Have you ever wondered when the „New Year’s Resolution“ started? According to historians, it was the ancient Babylonians who first started making New Year’s Resolutions back in mid-March, 4,000 years ago, when crops were planted. Babylonians kept their word to pay their debts and return any borrowed objects, believing … Continue reading How to Reach YOUR Goals

The COMM:PAKT offer of 2021: Together we came up with our 2021 Twelve Resolutions - one for each month - that together should help you feel more in control, more powerful and more engaged. And, we at comm:pakt have done the hard graft and are now excited and ready to guide you with the tools … Continue reading Our 2021 Twelve Resolutions

The COMM:PAKT tip of the week: Have fun! Pleasure, entertainment, enjoyment, amusement, excitement, gratification, jollification, merrymaking, leisure, relaxation and relief. What do all these words have in common? Right, they are synonyms for fun. And what can we see? Fun can be quite ambiguous: On the one hand it’s about being excited, but then it’s … Continue reading Start the new year with a smile

The COMM:PAKT quote of New Year: Do what you can with what you have where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt What happens when your stomach starts loudly declaring HUNGER, but the supermarkets are closed and the fridge is empty - do you sit in painful, stomach growling hunger? No, resourcefulness kicks in: the back of … Continue reading New Year’s Special

The COMM:PAKT question of the week: What's your plan? 2020 - a year that brought a lot of trouble in almost everyone’s life. Although it was a difficult year and most people don’t really want to celebrate the end of it, I think we can still take something good out of it. I know it’s … Continue reading New Year’s Resolution(s)

The COMM:PAKT quote of the week: Never let a good crisis go to waste! - Winston Churchill While Einstein wisely points out that out of crisis comes opportunity. Let's just consider a real crisis; the Cuban Missile Crisis - we were a hair's breath away from being obliterated, wiped out - gone! A valid crisis raises … Continue reading Change = Opportunity

The COMM:PAKT novelty of the week: Our PHILOSOPHY When recently asked by Nina, our Chief Marketing and PR Officer, what my philosophy to life was, I found I needed a few days to mull it over. Then, during a quiet moment, enjoying a cup of coffee, my thoughts simply rolled out onto this page: Life really … Continue reading Our Philosophy