by Mayda | Sep 24, 2021 | Burnout, Career, Featured, Goals, Personal growth
So …. After days/weeks/months of pulling your weight, planning, initiating, you look at your extensive to-do and realize ‘wow! I have checked out every.single.item!’. Feeling achieved, I am… What happened after is what we all dread: the initial feeling of...
by Mayda | Aug 27, 2021 | Career, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Personal growth, Stress
In a world that thrives on ‘no pain, no gain’, end of summer remains my biggest trigger to date. ‘Vacation is over’, ‘Now it’s time to take things seriously’ = more work, more pressure to perform and more opportunities for my personal Imposter Syndrome to show her...
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...