I’ve developed this story that I’m not the world’s best bag packer. Every holiday, I tend to pack either too much or too little. At the start of the Easter long weekend, I was overwhelmed by the task of packing for a four-day trip. To be fair, other things were on my mind, such as […]
Over 10 years ago, I interviewed a woman who was addicted to her phone. For context, she was a sales manager who used a BlackBerry phone for work (a fancy, expensive device at the time). Every minute of the interview, her phone pinged with a notification or she received an email alert on her laptop. […]
What activities help you get through tough times? Over the years, I’ve experimented with a range of weird and wonderful stress-busting activities, including yoga, pilates, meditation classes, floatation tanks, massages, acupuncture, and sound healings (to name a few). I’ll be the first to admit that cash-grabbing wellness gurus and advertisers have sucked me in. In […]
Do you ever find yourself watching cooking videos instead of cooking? I recently watched a video of Gordan Ramsey cooking a ‘curry in a hurry’ (a butter chicken dish). I was spellbound by the way Ramsey seamlessly cooked this dish. He was in flow and fully focused on the task of cooking the butter chicken. […]
