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4 ways to make your “enough is enough” work for you
Have you been finding yourself frustrated, huffin and puffin, each time you are heading to the office? And realizing that 1/ you don’t remember the last time you got excited about anything, not even that raise, 2/ you are mentally working 24/7 and getting lip service...
Who Am I? What’s the Cure to BurnOut and How do I Find Purpose? and Other Important Questions–and Answers!!
Who Am I? What's the Cure to BurnOut and How do I Find Purpose? and Other Important Questions--and Answers!! Join me and Melissa Chureau for an uplifting, free-flow conversation - from career identity to how to manage your energy so you can still accomplish what you...
On my to-do for 2023 – learning the art of detachment
Do you feel exhausted? Do you feel that no matter how much you focus on “gratitude”, you are still worrying yourself sick about the “what ifs”, “if only” and “why”s? Recession, downturns, layoffs, epidemics, unexpected, unprecedented and other gloom and doom, true or...
Looking forward to the new year? do this before you turn the page
Over the last few years now, I got myself into the habit of setting some time aside and putting down my thoughts and observations. My way of wrapping up that day, week or month. So it is not surprising that comes December, what started as a humble note jotting would...
3 habits to help you out of meh…
Habits…they can make or break your day, and more importantly, can work either for you or against you should they go rogue. Some of those habits have been around for as long as our first toothbrush - most times they started as a useful tool to help us manage or cope. ...
Is it your time to bid your job adieu?
Recession or not, tight job market or not, how do you know when the time has come to bid your job relationship adieu? First, let me acknowledge that slamming the door is not always possible, even when you have something already aligned. Your financial situation is...
The four pillars that can make you recession-proof
Are you noticing the R word popping out more frequently these days? [R for recession]. That moment in our collective experience when our economies re-start the process of filtering and shrinking. Contraction is rarely a pleasant thought: from the heartbreaking images...
3 questions for a more purposeful life
What does ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ evoke in you? My first thought is that the first two are not really my doing, but pursuing happiness could be something to aspire to, although it feels like a mighty tall order. How do you pursue something as...
Of the importance of being who you want to be…
When was the last time you had this nagging feeling inside of ‘there is more to life than this’? We can have our basic needs covered, and beyond it enjoy relative safety and a comfortable life, yet somehow that doesn’t feel enough. Because we know deep inside that...
That one investment that will always pay off …
… commit to your own growth In a world where you could be anything, what would you like to be? Hint: think not a job but a state of being. On our road to more productivity, efficiency and other philosophies of providing/producing, we may have forgotten that we are...
4 tools to help you be a better communicator, boss, friend, human…
If I was writing the ‘Bible of the Ideal 21st century’s Leader’, I would start it and finish it with one sentence: Leading Starts with Empathy. Modern age corporates, new economy, old established blue chips, everyone would benefit from adding a healthy dose of: ‘I am...
3 mantras to spring clean your brain
‘I am too much this’, ‘I am not enough that’... How many of those ‘I am’ statements do you have in your repertoire? If you are an over-achiever, I bet quite a few - geared toward a negative story around who you are, and how ‘inadequate’ you are. In itself, we all can...
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