by Mayda | Nov 30, 2020 | Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Personal growth, Stress
December! Yay! …. of 2020 … hmmmmmmmmm! If I were to summarize this year, it would look like this: 1/ Suuurrrpppprrrrisssee! ==> unannounced guest … oh oops! I am in my pajamas … 2/ OK then, 10 minutes tops, and then I will ask them to leave, I have...
by Mayda | Oct 27, 2020 | Burnout, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Personal growth, Stress
Next year, I will do it differently’ Aaannnddd here we are, a year later, looking at the hundreds of daily emails piling up in our inboxes, the over-bloated closet that we mine at 20% tops, our calendar that fills us with anxiety … and it is only 7am this morning....
by Mayda | Aug 28, 2020 | Career, Personal growth
No pain, no gain. How many times have you been repeating this in your head? Working in highly competitive environments? ==> Keeping up more or less. Adapting to the new times, the technologies, the floating desks, the meetings … all of them? ==> Done...
by Mayda | May 4, 2020 | Burnout, Personal growth, Stress
I don’t know what the future will hold. Does anyone? We can have years of personal development and other goals setting exercises behind us, yet when a crisis hits, our foundations become shaky, and we seem to revert back to our basic survival instincts of panic and...
by Mayda | Apr 1, 2020 | Career, Featured, Personal Branding, Personal growth
Personal contingency system: check Emergency fund: check A month in advance in medication, non-perishable foods, extra batteries: check… And yet, even the most prepared among us might have not seen it coming; ‘it’? the black swan, the unexpected event that makes most...
by Mayda | Dec 26, 2019 | Career, Personal growth
I want a new life… I remember back in France, the story of our family doctor leaving his family and job to go volunteer with Doctors without Borders. At that time, I found that fascinating, to be moved by idealism; and I thought it might have been very scary for his...