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 | 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...
by Mayda | Oct 4, 2022 | Burnout, Career, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Personal growth, Stress
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, Featured, Goals, Healthy habits, Personal growth, Stress
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...
by Mayda | Jul 26, 2022 | Featured, Goals, Personal growth, Stress
What does ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ evoke in you? My first thought is that the first two are not really my doing, but pursuing happiness could be something to aspire to, although it feels like a mighty tall order. How do you pursue something as...