The calendar is blocked out for the next month and the deadlines are looming. You now have a to-do list for your to-do lists, which keep expanding even though you’re checking items off every day. Deep breath – we’re diving into busy season! If you’re feeling a sense of dread,…
What is burnout? Why does it happen? How do we spot it early so that we can minimize the impact on us? Welcome to Part 1 of the Guide where we’re breaking down burnout! If you’re new to the Guide, start here! The Busy Season Survival Guide is a cumulation…
Struggling with busy season burnout? I feel you, deep in my bones! Let’s see if we can fix that. Welcome to the series that I affectionately call The Busy Season Survival Guide! Named after my annual pre-tax season bullet journal spreads, the Guide is a collection of the theories, lessons,…
It’s May 1st, number crunchers, and for those of us in countries with an April 30th tax deadline – we made it! Another fun-filled tax season in the books. I hope you made it through this tax season intact, and if you had a rager of a tax party last…
Yup – if you’re facing overwhelm, do one more thing. Make it a hobby, preferably something you really love. Something that can get you into “flow”, or something you’re really proud of, or something that has meaning to you. Something that you’d do for free. Keep it low-stakes and low-pressure. …
Holy smokes, what just happened? Come back to early January with me. We’d just come off the holidays, and my work-life balance was feeling on-point. I wrote about it. My husband and I are both public accountants, so we were gearing up for the impending “Busy Season” (that’s February through…
Feeling perpetually tired and overwhelmed? You may need to reclaim your work-life balance. I’ve been there. My day-to-day felt like a life-sized game of whack-a-mole. I was reacting as things arose, addressing them mostly on auto-pilot because I didn’t have the bandwidth to do anything more. I needed a rest!…
It’s no secret that workplace culture is shifting in a major way, and as I’ve been exploring authenticity throughout the first half of this year, I couldn’t help but expand it to the employee experience once again. Here are some perspectives that might help you feel more authentic at work.
We cubicle bumblebees love to idealize work-from-home arrangements. The reclamation of commute time, the quiet space, the sweatpants… But there's a certain joy that's come from returning to the office after three years!
I was struck by inspiration one evening, just as I was setting up my home office to return to work after a creatively expansive year-long maternity leave. It came in the form of this quote: Put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write,…