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Rocks and floppy socks
Parenting in a pandemic is quite bizarre. The euphoric joys and the exhausting lows. Sometimes all in the same hour. Currently I’m on day 5 of isolating (covid positive), and my youngest is finding it hard. I am too, but I have decades more experience and a smart phone to connect me with wonderful family…
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Your personal wellbeing strategy
Do you have a personal wellbeing strategy? Or a family/whanau wellbeing strategy? If so, what is it? If not, why not? Bailey&French, a positive psychology consultancy specialising in humanising the world of work, shared their template for creating a wellbeing strategy on LinkedIn (you can access it here). It’s a brilliant, clear, template that anyone…
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Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Recently I finally completed my ‘hard thing’ focus of the past few years, my MSc in Applied Positive Psychology & Coaching Psychology. While I love reading all things people, well-being and business related it had been too long since I had picked up a book of poetry, a guilty pleasure of mine. Even though I…
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Forget work-life balance, I’ll have a cup of work-life blend please.
The ideal of a work-life balance has been on my mind since ages ago (before I finished high school). How does one fit in extra-curricular activities outside the hours of 9-5/8-6/12 hour shifts? What about a social life? How am I meant to save money if the above take up the precious time I could use…
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Who run the world? Girls!
I’ve always been a big believer in and fan of Girl Power. I’ve always been surrounded by strong female role models (and fortunately guys who get how awesome that is) and grew up in a country that is largely a good place to be a woman*. When I was 11 or 12 we had two female Japanese…
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Want to be more awesome? Ditch your inner critic.
In an earlier post I referred to your inner critic and how there are ways to manage it and dissuade it from overpowering your awesome ideas, actions and dreams. What do I mean by your inner critic? I describe it as the doubt that arises when you have the opportunity to put yourself out there. It may be a…
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Mindfulness stressing you out? Don’t worry, be Appy!
Whether you’re curious, cynical or a convert it would be rather difficult to ignore Mindfulness with all the attention (pun intended) it’s getting at the moment. So, partly because Mindfulness is best experienced and partly because I’ve been around the concept and practice of meditation for so long* it’s second nature to me, I decided to test out…
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The first draft of anything is shit…
The first draft of anything is shit. – Ernest Hemingway This is one of my favourite quotes (excuse the profanity). At first it doesn’t really appear inspiring or motivational. You may even take offence as you think to yourself ‘hey I write pretty good first drafts thank you very much’. Maybe you do (well done)… Maybe they’d be even…
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Let’s get physical
Most of us know physical exercise is good for us and I’m a big fan. But that’s not the type of physical I want to talk about today. Today I want to talk about our Physical Environment. Having moved twice in the last three weeks combined with several conversations about how lovely it is to have some proper summer…
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Decisions, decisions… when more is not better.
Last week I saw a tweet… that lead me to article… that lead me to rethink my week… which is not quite as distracted as it sounds. You see my two work-related focuses at the moment are coaching and research. Both involve finding and absorbing knowledge or information and then reflecting on it. I was in the ‘finding’…
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