Whenever I see a post online from someone whose inbox contains 3500 unread emails a little piece inside of me dies. And then when I see a well-meaning person respond with just delete them all, if it’s important that person will email back I am fairly certain a unicorn dies. No. Please don’t delete them all. There might be something really important in there. Once in a lifetime … [Read more...]
It’s a widely accepted fact that human beings are social animals. We crave a sense of belonging and instinctively seek out ‘tribes’ to feed this need. What is a tribe? At the most basic level, it is a group of people with whom we share common ground. It’s a group of people who we feel ‘gets us’ because they have similar interests and speak the same ‘language’ as us. Pretty … [Read more...]
What’s a love job? Generally speaking it's one where you offer your professional services for free. While writing and design are my profession, they are also my hobbies (ie they are both things I like to spend my free time doing). That's why I have always been a huge fan of a love job that uses my particular skills and here's why I reckon everyone in the world should be a fan too: They … [Read more...]
Back in the day (circa 2010) my Mondays to Fridays looked like this: 5am wake up > throw down a coffee while checking emails > high-five my husband as he comes in from his run and I head out for mine > get home and jump in the shower > get ready for work > get child ready for daycare > get in the car > daycare drop-off > get to office > head down bum up for next 7 hours … [Read more...]
If any of you have been perusing the lovely new Coping with Jane site in the last few days you will have seen this wonderful motherhood balance interview Jane did with Kerri Sackville. When asked what advice she would give to mothers trying to balance work and life, Kerri shared this little piece of gold: “Get as much help as you can afford”. Oh. My. Goodness. YES!! This is something I have … [Read more...]
Late last year we did some psychological profiling of our team in the Swish Design office and that profiling revealed some interesting things. First of all it confirmed for me that yes, I am an introvert. Now this is something I’ve known forever, but I always thought ‘introvert’ meant that someone who was shy and unsociable. In actual fact, being an introvert is not about shyness at all, … [Read more...]
Just over a month ago I started to notice some cracks appearing in my husband’s usually affable façade. It had been a stressful couple of months for various reasons and his sense of humour seemed to have abandoned ship. Having experienced a loss of ‘funny’ myself I realised some kind of intervention was in order. I got online and swiftly called in the cavalry in the form of a little … [Read more...]
Last year I came across a super interesting video on YouTube. It was conceived, written, and presented by Dr. Mike Evans, a Canadian physician with an interest in preventative medicine. The video was quite brilliant and was titled 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? Dr Mike spends the early stages of the video talking about a wonder drug he had been … [Read more...]
Have I mentioned before that I hate cleaning? If not, it's worth repeating. I hate cleaning This is of course quite at odds with the fact that I am a complete neat freak. If there is mess around me I pretty much can't do anything. I think this comes from my high school days where I was a huge procrastinator and given there were no twitter and Facebook back then, I procrastinated by cleaning my … [Read more...]
When I was at school, English and English Lit were hands down my very best subjects. I couldn’t quite understand the struggles my peers had with our fair language because as a rule, it all came pretty easily to me: spelling, comprehension, stringing coherent sentences together? Too easy. When I got to uni (logically to study Human Movement - because when your best subject is English, what … [Read more...]
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