HALT

Are you:

– Hungry?

– Angry?

– Late?

– Tired?

If so, you are likely to make poor decisions. This top tip was presented by Dr Mark Stacey in Wales at a resilience workshop and developed into this picture.

I think what was so useful at the time was the concept of pragmatism. We might want to never be stressed , we might strive always to be ‘perfect’ ( whatever that is!) , but in real life, it rarely happens, so rather than beat ourselves up about it, we need to be mindful that any of those 4 states will mean that our decision making ability is less than optimal… so we need to stop and think before we do or say something which will cause avoidable harm or distress.