by Mayda | Mar 24, 2023 | Career Growth, Featured, Goals, Personal growth, Stress Management
[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 Growth, Featured, Goals, Personal growth, Stress Management
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 | Dec 30, 2022 | Career Growth, 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 Growth, 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 4, 2022 | Career Growth, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Leadership Potential, Personal growth, Stress Management
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... 
by Mayda | Aug 22, 2022 | Career Growth, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Personal growth, Stress Management
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...
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