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The Myth of “work” Life Balance

Work-Life balance has been consistently touted as the best way to maintain our well-being. That everything in our life must be in balance. However, this thought causes more anxiety than it reduces, and even leads to us accomplishing less. Instead, lets embrace imbalance.

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You’re Not Getting A Letter To Hogwarts

Most of us sit and wait for our big moment. That we get discovered and our lives suddenly change for the better. We get whisked away to some magical place where we are happy and life is all around better. But that moment wont just happen. And thinking it will only sets us up for disappointment.

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The Hammer in my Toolbox

Most tools have specific purposes. When we use it for those purposes, they are incredibly useful. Once we are done, we put them back. What happens when we don’t do that though? When we just keep trying to use those tools for other reasons? When we have the tool everywhere we go, and think using it in these situations will have some kind of benefit? It doesn’t make much sense and this explores why.

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Q&A: I dont get much from my job

Too much emphasis recently has been on holding a job or career that 100% align to our passions. That our job should be our only source of fulfillment in life and we will get everything we need from it. This can’t be further from the truth, and we answer a very common questions regarding work.

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Effort and Impermanence

Would you spend days, weeks or months working on something that is painstakingly intricate, only to have it be immediately destroyed? Even if that piece of work is incredibly delicate and beautiful? On top of the actual work, it had equal efforts of planning and preparation? Would you do it? You should. And here is why.

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Winter is here.

How to embrace the season, instead of hibernate to wait till it is over.

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Our Identity

How our identities get shaped, and we become who we want to be.

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re-thinking your strengths

Why do we spend so much time working on our weaknesses? Instead, we should be enhancing our strengths.

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Are you happy? Or are you satisfied?

Why “do what makes you happy” might not be the best advice. If we want to have a sense of fulfillment, we need to approach this advice differently.

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