After the year I had experienced, I needed something to lighten my days and bring a smile to my face. So, we adopted two adorable, 10-week old, black bundles of fur that we quickly referred to as our ‘House Panthers’. Like most things in nature and the animal kingdom, they brought immediate entertainment, love and laughter [...]
It’s become normal – and something of a bragging point – to be able to point at how hard you’re working. It’s like we’ve confused being burnt out with being successful. The second we adopted social media as a staple in our lives, we also adopted a highly visible way of life. We find ourselves enmeshed [...]
So many of us spent so much of 2020 desperately wishing that the 1st of January 2021 would hurry up and be with us. We were hit – and hit hard – but somehow we held onto the hope that 2021 would be better. Now, here we are … already one month of 2021 gone and [...]
Every day is a battle between finding time and getting everything done. Some days it feels like you’re a magician, magicking things out of nowhere, moving through time that doesn’t exist, putting out spot fires, dealing with the demands of staff, customers, suppliers. It never ends. It’s stressful. More stressful than you could ever have imagined. [...]
We’ve been taught for decades that being stressed is normal. There’s a perception that if you’re not stressed, then you’re not working hard enough, and the pressure is piled on for you to ‘lift your game’. If others around you are struggling under the weight of the things they need to deliver, but you’re sailing along [...]
We live our lives lurching from mini-break to mini-break, from this holiday to the next. Life carries such an intensity now. We’re all exhausted, we’re all stressed. We know that it’s not good for us; we know we’re unwell. But we carry on anyway. All around us are messages for us to stop, to slow down. [...]
We’ve all felt it. The external, invisible power that drives us to do things we don’t really want to, just ‘in case we miss out’. All it takes is a blink, and suddenly our lives are full of over stimulation and information overload. We’re bombarded with marketing messages that tell us all the things that are [...]
Do you wish your life was simpler? Here’s what you need to know: Most of us have been taught that we have to push ourselves in order to be able to achieve anything significant. The old saying: ‘No pain – no gain’ has morphed into ‘No stress – no success’. We’re driven to achieve, to succeed [...]
You can escape them too … but without all the hullabaloo. I used to be a corporate executive. I ticked the boxes I was supposed to tick, I climbed the ladder and I reached the pinnacle. I spent every day running around, looking after everyone else and making sure everyone was OK. During the day, I [...]
The world always continues to turn. No matter what is happening, no matter what you do, no matter how integral to a process or system, job or outcome you think you are, it will turn whether you are there or not. That’s not easy to read, I know, but I’ve experienced it first hand. I spent [...]
