I was talking with a friend recently who has been job hunting on and off for a while now. She’s not hearing any response to her applications and generally pretty disheartened by the whole experience. We can all relate to that feeling. It’s pretty rubbish when you’ve put lots of effort into writing a custom […]
You may have seen the ‘quiet quitting‘ convo happening in the media right now. If you haven’t, ‘quiet quitting‘ is supposedly when employees passively-aggressively refuse to work longer hours or outside of their designated responsibilities. i.e. that doing your job, is some kind of silent rebellion. Madness! I’m not alone in this but what I […]
One of our superpowers as women is our ability to think of ALL the things. Mentally keep track of multiple projects. Brain tabs open on what family members and colleagues are up to. Constant scheduling Tetris. Our brains, our mental capacity for organisation is phenomenal. The challenge with this is its noisy! It’s the lying […]
Self care is such a buzzword. I feel like it’s overused to be almost meaningless. Yet here I am writing an article on the relationship between self care and productivity. Two things that don’t seem like they go together. Which is the point. When did doing things to take care of ourselves and live a […]
Over the years I’ve written a lot about the tactics of habit building. Which is not that surprising considering my first introduction to the idea of self development was Tim Ferriss, the king of personal hacking. Underpinning those strategies is the idea that building habits is hard. You need a game plan because otherwise you’ll […]
The end of 2019 is rapidly approaching and Instagram is flooded with posts about getting ready for the new decade. And while I agree with finishing strongly, this time of year is hectic enough without panicing that a whole decade will be ruined if we don’t prepare properly in the next two weeks. Instead of […]
‘What do you want out of life?’ Ahhhhh… Sounds familiar? That is a loaded question. One of the biggest questions we can ask ourselves. But we don’t really think about it. We go through our day to day lives, reasonably content but with the feeling, things could be better. You’re listening to a podcast or […]
The last time you had a fight with someone, did you stop and ask yourself, what is my role in this? The last time you made a mistake at work, did you ask yourself, what could I have done better or differently? The last time you didn’t get the result you wanted, were you honest […]
Marie Kondo is all the rage for a reason. Clearing out feels really good. But it goes beyond the smug, satisfied feeling of being tidy. Or knowing where everything is. There are some really serious benefits to clearing out. It can help you see where you’re at, surface subconscious beliefs and raise your standards. Unexpected […]
Being abundant is about feeling abundant. Chances are if you’re reading this, you have plenty in your life. An internet connection. Spare time from working, eating, sleeping, surviving. But it’s easy to lose sight of everything that we have, focusing instead on the many, many things we don’t have. This list is a whole lot […]
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