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,…
I was absolutely a work-from-home advocate pre-pandemic. As it happened, we were actually very close to completing a work-from-home proposal at my office when the pandemic struck! How about that for coincidental timing. With the matter settled, I said goodbye to my “creative cubicle” and set up my little home…
Many of us struggle with trying to enjoy a prolific creative life while holding down a 9-to-5, and so we just... Don't! We resolve that we'll pick up our hobbies again upon retirement, and until then we go on trudging through our day jobs. That can't be right, can it?…
Is it just me who thinks that sometimes authenticity is a bit… Tricky? Maybe it’s my accountant’s mind, but I keep looking for the “rules of authenticity”, and I can’t find them. There may not be a rulebook, but we cover three guiding pillars in: How To Embrace Authenticity In…
There are plenty of barriers to creativity, and you can absolutely blast through them. In order to do that, you need to deal with the first two: finding time, and making space. These will be your springboard as you reconnect with your creativity.