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In this podcast, we prioritize personal happiness and health in a world that values endless work that leads to burn-out.

We will explore strategies to achieve equilibrium between career and life.

08/02/2024

TW: Heavy themes - Death, Loss, Grief

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Life update:

Hi everyone. I apologize for the lack of posting.

In late January, my dog Dixie started showing some concerning symptoms, and was diagnosed with a terminal heart disease with 6 months to live. Unfortunately, she declined in a matter of days, and crossed the rainbow bridge on the morning of January 22nd.

Anyone who has ever lost a pup, especially suddenly, knows how agonizing it is. I’ve been feeling incredibly depressed and uninspired as a result of these events, hence the lack of content.

While my hope is to get back in the saddle of regularly-posting sooner rather than later, I need to let my grief ride its natural course (which seems to be an erratic rollercoaster).

In-light of me dealing with this heavy weight, I’m navigating how to balance “real life” as I’m in the throes of it - including performing the daily duties of my full-time job. To say it’s been challenging to balance it all, is an understatement.

While my grief journey is very acute, it is important to highlight the collective grief we ALL feel for what is going on in the world. Yes, people lose individual loved ones everyday, but a lot of us carry the weight of the world; including witnessing wars and genocides, political conflicts, and seeing our Mother Earth slowly fall into a “point of no return” as far as climate change goes. It is HEAVY stuff we’re dealing with on a daily basis, and it’s hard to be fully-present at work with all these going on.

As of the present moment, the only energy I have is to make this announcement of why I have not been as active. Just because I’m curious as to how my experience relates to others, I will eventually be posting some statistics about grief at work, and how it daily affects us as humans, whether the grief is acute or collective. I’ll also be working on some positive affirmations that will be applicable to all grief.

Kiss your loved ones often, and don’t spend your extra time working - spend it enjoying them. Work will always be there, but your loved ones will not. And neither will you.

Namaste, ya’ll. I’ll be around, eventually. 🙏

18/01/2024

40-hour work weeks: How did we get here? 🤔

Believe it or not, work weeks used to be almost 2X as long as they are now, in the Industrial Revolution 😱

Over time, workers became sick of the long days, for several reasons:

🛠️ Many workers suffered life-changing - or life-ending - injuries as a result of fatigue from long hours.
🛠️ Children were forced to be put in harms way to keep up with the boom of productivity.
🛠️ I don’t care who you are - 70+ hours a week is a LONG TIME to work!!!

Eventually, days were shortened to 10 hours. But eventually, businesses made an interesting discovery:

💡 Overall, a worker’s productivity tapped-out at the 8-hour mark.

Henry Ford used this discovery in making his decision to switch his business operations to 8-hour work days.

👏 He was largely praised for this change at the time…
But he also did it so he could split shifts into 3 to make his factories run a full 24-hours. (So, let’s not glorify the guy too much here…He didn’t make this change out of the goodness of his heart in thinking about worker’s health 🤣)

The unemployment of the Great Depression eventually solidified this practice in other businesses.
This is because more shifts were created to help spread the labor out to more people. 👥

It’s been almost 1 century since this change. ⏰
We’ve had another revolution since then as far as technology, when it comes to productivity 📈

Do you think it’s time that we as a society revisits this concept? 🤔

17/01/2024

The way this song has an absolute chokehold on me 😭

15/01/2024

Happy Sunday ☕️

Hope you had some time to unwind and do something you love ❤️

Wishing you a positive start to the new week! 😇

13/01/2024

It’s 2024, and yes, you still have to worry about potentially being shot with an arrow, believe it or not 😳

The Buddha said: ‘In life, we can’t always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. This second arrow is optional.’ 🪷

After experiencing an unfortunate event, many times we let our limbic system get carried away with whatever negative emotion we are feeling, which adds more suffering. 🧠

It is important to recognize the feelings that you are feeling, but to not let them carry you away into causing yourself more suffering.

Let’s say you get laid off from your job. You will probably experience a myriad of emotions - anger, blame, frustration, sadness, anxiety, etc. 😢

Your desire could be to outlash at or blame someone. You can complain to your coworkers or spouse. You can even turn inward and beat yourself up, blaming yourself. 😓

While these emotions are completely normal, they cannot be used to undo the situation you find yourself in.

Personally, I dealt with a difficult situation about a year and half ago. I just left a stressful job that caused me to have a mental breakdown. I was so burnt-out, but decided to push forward in starting an entrepreneurial career. 💼

I had a difficult start to my new career, based on external outcomes I couldn't control (the first arrow). I had to work a bunch of part-time, low-income jobs to make ends meet...barely. Seeing how this wasn't sustainable, I made a plan to apply to full-time jobs, and continue my entrepreneurship on the side.

Unfortunately, the job market was flooded with applicants. I was continually sending out applications and writing cover letters, only to rarely get an initial interview call, and then the hiring manager would ghost me. Soon enough, I would get the dreaded "You have not been selected" email. 📧

"I should have seen this coming and planned for it better." 🤬
"I'm so stupid. I never should have left my previous job as quickly as I did; I should have transitioned into this role gradually." 😫
"Nobody seems to care about my skills and accomplishments. What has my work ethic even gotten me?" 😢
"My friends and family are probably judging the hell out of me right now." 😥
"I'm a failure." 😞

^^These are some examples of thoughts I had on-repeat. I must have shot myself with the second arrow a million times, especially as far as blaming myself. I continually kicked myself when I was already down (the second arrow). 🏹

As hard as the circumstances were that I was experiencing, I could have freed up a lot of energy in carving a path forward and controlling what I COULD control, rather than dwelling on what I couldn't.

While this story is thousands of years old, it's still relevant today. You can acknowledge the pain, but don't bask in it and make it worse. You can bring mindfulness to your current circumstances and emotions to focus on the present and what is within your realm of control. 🤲

08/01/2024

Touché.

07/01/2024

The quote of the day is about questions - Do you view asking questions as a skill, or as a weakness? 🤔

A Harvard Business Review article sums it up perfectly:

“Questioning is a uniquely powerful tool for unlocking value in organizations: It spurs learning and the exchange of ideas, it fuels innovation and performance improvement, it builds rapport and trust among team members. And it can mitigate business risk by uncovering unforeseen pitfalls and hazards.” 💭

“…by asking questions, we naturally improve our emotional intelligence, which in turn makes us better questioners—a virtuous cycle.” ♻️

‘Ability to ask questions and receive feedback to create better understanding and solve problems’ is an example of a soft skill you can put on your resume 📝

^I’d be willing to bet that this is one that hiring managers don’t see very often! 👀

One of my favorite podcasts - Ten Percent Happier by Dan Harris - has Dan (the host) wrapping up his guest interviews with one important question: “Is there anything that I should have asked, but didn’t?” 🎙️

Asking genuine questions, and being willing to admit that you don’t always know the answer, breeds positive interpersonal communication between people 🤝

04/01/2024

Quote of the day from writer, Akiroq Brost 🧘‍♂️

You plan and prep diligently for meetings, presentations, and projects…But do you put that same energy into taking care of yourself? 🤔

Do you:

🔳 Block out future PTO days?
🔲 Plan what time you will clock-out (physically and mentally) for the day?
🔳 Schedule non-work activities that bring you peace or joy?
🔲 Plan what time you need to go to bed to get a full 8 hours of rest?

If not, maybe now is the time to start! ⏰

02/01/2024

ATTN: MY FELLOW MILLENNIALS 🚨

What do you think about these 6 takeaways from Gallup’s poll?
Truth? Or 🐴💩?
Write your opinion in the comments below 👇

There’s an array of articles out there that points the blame at Millennials for a tough job market 👎

🫵 They blame us for a failing economy, saying we aren’t buying houses, getting married, or investing enough as young as previous generations.
🫵 They say we cost companies millions of dollars in hiring, because of our “job-hopping” and “quiet quitting.”
🫵 They say we are lazy and lackluster.

You name the blame, it is all our fault…or they always make it seem 🙄

A Gallup poll in 2016 surveyed 1 million millennial workers and how they feel about work. Only 29% of them said they felt “engaged” in their job 🧑‍💻

The following slides are the general takeaways from what Gallup describes is most important to millennial workers in order to keep them satisfied in the workplace 📈

🤔What exactly do these findings mean?
🤔What does it take to keep a millennial “engaged” in ways that do not necessarily matter to Gen X, or Boomers?
🤔 Do you think these are doable, or impossible, asks of our higher management and leaders?

31/12/2023

As we bid farewell to this year and embrace the new one upon us, let’s take a moment to reflect on the journey of this past year, and be grateful for the opportunities that were presented to us 🤲

Here’s to embracing the new opportunities, overcoming challenges, and writing a new page on the blank canvas of 2024 🌟

29/12/2023

How do you view the aspect of taking care of yourself?

Do you see it as a burden, or as an investment in your well-being?

Consider this example:

Take the instance of needing to take a few hours off of work to go to a doctor’s appointment, in-order to address a health concern you’ve been dealing with 🩺

Using this example, you can view this act of self-care through 2 different lenses:

🔳 As a Burden/Inconvenience: “There’s not enough hours in the day for me to get my work done. Plus, my boss might get annoyed with me for leaving when there is so much to do. I might have to skip my appointment.”

🔲 As an Investment: “I won’t be able to properly focus and perform my best with this concern on my mind. Taking a few hours out of the day to go to the doctor will put my mind at ease.”

Unfortunately, it isn’t always easy to view self-care as an investment. The hustle-and-grind culture says “stop at nothing to increase productivity.” Many leaders take this stance ⛏️

Companies blame self-care as an excuse that folks make to be lazy, which lead to the coining of the “nobody wants to work anymore” guilt-trip, and others like it.

Companies use the concept of self-care as the scapegoat, while they churn-and-burn workers, thinking this process is increasing their profit…or is it actually? 👀

On the contrary, these companies LOSE millions of dollars each year in hiring costs, due to high-turnover. Workers continually quit - voluntarily, to find a new job; or involuntarily, because their health is failing from burnout 💸

If only they properly invested in the longevity in their employees, keeping them happy and healthy, it would be an all around-winning situation:

Happy/healthy people = Happy workers 💪
Happy workers = Increased productivity 📈
Increased productivity = Healthy business 💰

Long story short: Focusing on self-care is not only beneficial for individual well-being, but also for business well-being, and should be a priority for EVERYONE.

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