by Mayda | Mar 24, 2023 | Career, Featured, Goals, Personal growth
[sigh…] You could have been overpreparing yourself, spent hours of mental work going through “what ifs”, gotten to the point of “ok, I can deal with almost anything” and then boom, your black swan event happens. All that work and planning for nothing. Emotions take... 
by Mayda | Feb 20, 2023 | Career, Featured, Goals, Personal growth, Stress
When I was an investment banker, working from one version of “the world is collapsing, do something about it”, to another “midnight tonight is your deadline”, one of my favorite pastimes was imagining how my life would be if instead of finance, I had chosen... 
by Mayda | Jan 23, 2023 | Burnout, Career, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Stress
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... 
by Mayda | Dec 30, 2022 | Burnout, Career, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Personal growth
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... 
by Mayda | Nov 30, 2022 | Career, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Personal growth
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... 
by Mayda | Oct 19, 2022 | Burnout, Career, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Stress
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...
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