Category: Money & Work
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Creativity Is The Most Important Goal
…allow students to learn in explorative, creative ways, and focus on promoting the habits of self-learning and independent thinking, and make creative thinking the most important goal. –Hao Jingfang, ‘Education must foster creativity – and fight inequality, 26 Jun 2017′ If we have learned anything of late, it is that we are resilient, creative and…
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Creative Service
I wonder what it would take to inspire an incoming government to creatively serve their people? What would the requirements be? What kind of mindset would the elected officials need to adopt in order to do this kind work? Is the bureaucracy so deeply ingrained that this kind of change is not possible? What is…
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What Stops Your Destiny?
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny. -Aristotle There is so much goodness packed into this statement that I wished to have learned when I was younger! Why didn’t…
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Engaged work driven by 3 needs
“Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.” – Zig Ziglar It is a fascinating thought experiment to boil work engagement down to these 3 questions: Do I find my work interesting? Could also…
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Forget work-life balance, fill your creative cup instead
“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them — work, family, health, friends and spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the…
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Why bother with SMART goals?
It is hard to believe that we have been home from our year of family travel for 2 years now. So much has changed for each of us and for the entire world. Our children are in the process finishing their last stages of maturity into young adults and my husband and I have settled…
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Is saving money sexy?
The reason I ponder the idea of saving money in relation to the social stigma attached to it, is complex. Coming of age in the 1980’s was a confusing time for opposing social messages. On one hand you had, ‘The Wealthy Barber‘ published in 1989 in Canada and just before that in 1987, ‘Greed is…
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Create your own home office rules
This is the time to create your own home office code of conduct. If you think about it, this is a golden opportunity, one that may not come around again. While you also need to uphold all the values and goals of your employer, in your home office – you are in control of your…
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Do we really manage time?
”The trouble is, you think you have time” -Jack Kornfield It is curious when we use the phrase ‘time management’, as if the passage of minutes and hours in a day can be controlled or manipulated. Time passes at the same speed no matter who keeps track of it. There is no difference in…
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Happiness at home, in spite of social distancing
I’m not going to lie. I love being at home. I am a homebody. I have loads of interests and projects which I can only do at home. There is not enough time to get after all I want to do at home. I could have all the necessities of life delivered to our front…