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Dear Diary of the year 2020… 😬 🙄 🤯 and thank you too!
December! Yay! .... of 2020 ... hmmmmmmmmm! If I were to summarize this year, it would look like this: 1/ Suuurrrpppprrrrisssee! ==> unannounced guest … oh oops! I am in my pajamas … 2/ OK then, 10 minutes tops, and then I will ask them to leave, I have stuff to...
Time to hit that pause button!
Next year, I will do it differently’ Aaannnddd here we are, a year later, looking at the hundreds of daily emails piling up in our inboxes, the over-bloated closet that we mine at 20% tops, our calendar that fills us with anxiety … and it is only 7am this morning....
You + Job = Trouble in Paradise?
🧡 Relationship status: in a (toxic) relationship with my job I have to confess I was in one of those toxic relationships for a long time. Out of fear of change and of losing what I have acquired on the job at a hefty price. Let me start by saying there is nothing...
Is your kryptonite over-rated?
No pain, no gain. How many times have you been repeating this in your head? Working in highly competitive environments? ==> Keeping up more or less. Adapting to the new times, the technologies, the floating desks, the meetings … all of them? ==> Done...
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Ennnnoouuughhh…is that your burnout talking [again]?
Ennnoouuughh…. Is that your burnout calling your name? Ugh, yeah…I am going to answer for you and say yes, it’s highly likely you have gone beyond the point of wanting to be productive and proving yourself…to that place where you keep on plowing and pushing and...
What do you want your ‘new normal’ to be?
Unless you have been living in a world with no social media (does that still exist?), you may have come across loads of chatter about how 2020 will be the year where everything is changing – on the corporate side Pandemic management meant working from home for many. ...
Not sure what to do next for your career? Time to find your professional signature
Times are changing. They needed to. Ahhh! didn't we desperately try to get a grip and gain control of that change! We resisted taking any form of action, we stayed in the 'wait and see' vibe... and now we are feeling stuck, frustrated, and well...something gotta give....
Feeling meh, blah and mighty stuck? … Here is where to start
I don’t know what the future will hold. Does anyone? We can have years of personal development and other goals setting exercises behind us, yet when a crisis hits, our foundations become shaky, and we seem to revert back to our basic survival instincts of panic and...
Beyond crisis management …. focusing on your personal renaissance
Personal contingency system: check Emergency fund: check A month in advance in medication, non-perishable foods, extra batteries: check… And yet, even the most prepared among us might have not seen it coming; ‘it’? the black swan, the unexpected event that makes most...
About to blow a fuse? – do this instead…
When things get crazy and out of control… When was the last time you felt that way? Not so long ago, am I right? Stress, overwhelm, everything needing to be ready for yesterday, ugh….and nothing seems to be going in the right direction, stakes are high, emotions going...
Job hunting? Avoid these 6 pitfalls…
I can think of a thousand ways to have fun… Looking for a new job is not in my top 10. Of course, it’s an experience; of course, the process comes with positives, new connections, new information; It remains that job hunting (what a word, by the way, do you hunt a job...
The best career decision you can ever make….
I want a new life… I remember back in France, the story of our family doctor leaving his family and job to go volunteer with Doctors without Borders. At that time, I found that fascinating, to be moved by idealism; and I thought it might have been very scary for his...
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