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Life is full of transitions: some unexpected and some inevitable. When your children are small, it feels like they will always need you. Then suddenly, they finish school, are grown adults, and start to leave home. One of ours found her wings sooner than expected, and the second is poised to leave. They’re bittersweet moments...
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Have you ever seen the Facebook posts that start, ‘I was this old when …’ that go on to share some well-known hack the person was oblivious about until they reached an age well past when they should have known? I have my own ‘I was this old when story …’. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a...
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As a child, I had a few favourite books I would regularly re-read. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables would come off the shelf yearly. I loved the curiosity, determination, and sense of adventure of the main characters Jo and Anne. They held up a mirror to my...
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In my teen years, I was steadfast in my desire to avoid working in an office. It’s why I refused to learn to touch type at school. But after University, my path changed, and I ended up working in an office. I didn’t have to type because our Assistant was the only person with a...
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A few years ago, I remember asking my partner why he didn’t ‘Google it’ before deciding to rip out the wall of our internal stairwell, douse it in insect spray and wrap what remained in cling wrap. Why? He had discovered termite damage. It was only when he did ask Google that he discovered he...
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When I was a kid, I read everything I could get my hands on. We stocked up at the library every week. When my parents banned reading books during meals, I read everything on the cereal box at breakfast. My Mum let me read her Catherine Gaskin novels, and my Dad never knew I sneak-read...
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I used to spend the lead-up to Christmas Day focused on prepping and cleaning, doing what I could to ensure my family had a wonderful experience. On Christmas Day, I was the one who was a hot, sweaty mess in the kitchen preparing the Christmas feast while everyone else played with their gifts and lounged...
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The end of 2023 was busy for many people. It was a race to get everything finished while still trying to connect with friends and family across the festive season. By the time you got past all your festive obligations, the last thing you may have felt like doing was reflecting on the year gone...
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Have you ever given someone else advice and then realised you need to take your own medicine? My partner was concerned about how much progress they had made towards their goals this year. He’d made progress, but not as quickly or far as he had hoped. I suggested he show himself the kindness he would...
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Recently, multiple CEO clients have told me they feel guilty when they take time out to recharge. One of these CEOs shared how guilty they felt when, after hitting the wall, they took a couple of hours to do something non-work-related during business hours to recharge. A sentiment often echoed by many of the executives...
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I tried to learn French and German in my first year of high school. It was, at times, a chaotic learning environment. I remember a day when some students barricaded the classroom door with chairs after the teacher was called away, and she could not get back in until after the bell rang. Not surprisingly,...
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In 2017, I stood in a room with a group of other executives. I was stepping backwards and forwards in response to a list of questions. The questions explored different forms of oppression and privilege related to racism, classism, sexism, genderism, heterosexism, militarism, ageism, adultism, ableism, and xenophobia. That experience of exposing points of vulnerability...
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