by Mayda | Jun 28, 2021 | Burnout, Career, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Personal growth
Work/life balance: myth or reality? Possibly a bit of both; everyone has their own idea of what it looks like but, unsurprisingly, somehow not in sync with what the other side of the table has in mind. So where do we take it from there? Forgo the whole concept and go...
by Mayda | Jun 1, 2021 | Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Personal growth, Stress
The brain, our final frontier? Feels like it sometimes. Our mind seems to have a life on its own – it regulates our schedules, our actions, our interactions; and ultimately gets to set the tone for how our days will be like. What a responsibility! An unfair...
by Mayda | May 4, 2021 | Burnout, Featured, Healthy habits, Personal growth, Stress
How do you feel when you have spent time and energy (money!) planning, preparing, hypothesizing and getting ready only to have something unexpected showing up…. ‘What the …’!?! Take it from someone who has been there many times; it’s not a fun place to be – but...
by Mayda | Mar 26, 2021 | Burnout, Featured, Healthy habits, Personal growth, Stress
Do you remember what life looked like when you were a kid? It was all about playing, friendships, inhaling/exhaling the goodness of each moment; and knowing that no matter what, things would get fixed eventually. Naive, sure, careless, highly likely; and mostly...
by Mayda | Mar 1, 2021 | Career, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Personal growth
Follow your passion and all will be well… You’ve heard that before, right? Ask around for a show of hands, how many people actually followed this advice? My guess: very few. For two reasons 1/ no idea what it means; 2/ no idea how to do it. This is the typical...
by Mayda | Jan 29, 2021 | Burnout, Career, Featured, Healthy habits, Personal growth, Stress
Let me start by saying that if you are feeling plenty of meh and blah these days, it’s perfectly normal and you are by far not alone. The middle of the winter has that effect; in fact, this can be applied to the middle of anything. Being halfway, because we don’t...