It’s easy to get caught up in stress, whether it be from your job or something more personal. It’s one thing we would all prefer to avoid if we could, right? The first step is identifying the cause of this feeling and then coming up with a plan on how you can combat it. One...
Employee, manager, wife or husband, mother or father, British, catholic or any other description you identify with. These are typical answers we give to the question “Who are you?”. But if we look inside, there comes another, hidden from the outer world layer, which we often call our personality. You might believe you are a...
What would you change in your life if you had a second chance? Recently I watched a movie about a couple who wanted to divorce 20 years into their marriage. They both wished out loud they never married in the first place! And as it happens in the movies, at that moment they magically...
Comparing to other, less fortunate countries, we seem to be lucky. We have everything we need and beyond, yet often feel unhappy. We worry more, fall victims to the negative thinking patterns, and don’t seem to be able to ever stop. Stop wanting to have more, to be more, to be somewhere else… This cycle...
Are you a glass half-full or a glass half-empty type of person? And well… what has it got to do with the stress? You see, our personality defines our default response to different situations. If you are an optimist and something doesn’t go according to your plan, your thinking would go “ok, I...
Imagine adding an extra hour to your day! How many more things would you tick off your list, how many projects would you finish? Wouldn’t it be nice? But would it really make any difference in your life? You see, if you are anything like me, you probably run out of time to finish your...
Do you rely on coffee to boost your energy in the morning or after lunch when you feel like you could use a siesta? I used to think that I wouldn’t survive an afternoon without coffee! But since I started working from home, where I don’t have a coffee machine (deliberately!), I realised there were...
I was good at school, top of my class, with grades well beyond my parents’ expectations. I thought I nailed it. I figured life out and it was going to be this way forever. Until… the harsh reality of the “adult” world hit me and nearly knocked me off my feet. You see, what it...
There are a lot of beliefs about multitasking. One of the most popular ones is that women are better at it than men. Well… maybe there is some truth to this. As the lockdown proved, many women (although some men too) had to combine childcare, work, and house chores, and did so pretty gracefully. I...
How many productivity systems have you tried in the past? Have any of them worked? When it comes to productivity, there is no “one fits all” approach, although having committed to improving it, in time we can figure out what works for us and establish our own system. To do that we need to become...
