I used to live with this nagging feeling that I wasn’t quite enough. Not smart enough. Not pretty enough. Not successful enough. This feeling of inadequacy drove me to work in unsustainable and unhealthy ways. I felt desperate to make something of myself in this world. It took doing a PhD to make me realise […]
Do you ever feel like you’re running at full speed down a mountain? This is what my life used to feel like. I was always in a rush. Always cutting it fine. Often running late. I was late for class. Late for dinner at friends’ houses. Late for meetings. In my world, being late was […]
Adult colouring books were all the rage a few years ago. For many people, colouring in is a great way to reduce stress and calm the frenzied mind. But as much as I love coloured pens, pencils and crayons, I’m not keen on colouring in. Instead of decreasing my stress levels, it has the opposite […]
I’ve discovered a way to create more time. Drum roll please . . . Eliminate time confetti from your life. What’s time confetti? In her brilliant book Time Smart researcher Dr Ashley Whillans describes time confetti as the little bits of seconds and minutes that are lost to unproductive multitasking (e.g. texting and checking social […]
