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I met with a friend of mine just a few days ago and heard an all-too-familiar story. This friend is at the end of her rope. She’s stressed out, not sleeping right, in poor health and she feels like she has the weight of the world on her shoulders.
As a result, she’s not really taking care of herself the way she knows she should or could.
The solution is simple, right?
Read MoreI’ve read a lot about personal freedom recently on social media.
My conclusion? Despite what marketers try to sell us, personal freedom does not come from having all the right stuff.
If anything, our pursuit of "having it all" ends up costing us years of work and clutters up our living spaces, our garage and even *gasp* a rented storage unit or two.
Read MoreLife has gotten pretty crazy over the last couple of months. Sure, there’s the usual chaos of the Holidays, but I can’t blame the crazyness on that because we all know about it well in advance and usually plan for it fairly well.
The craziness has been brought about by some great projects I’m involved in, including:
All this while running a small business, which I've been doing for years now.
And craziness has its consequences.
Read MoreStress, it seems, is an inevitable reality of modern life. Everything seems to be a trigger: work, school, family, money, urban living (including commuting, incessant noise and overcrowding), even our own dreams and desires can stress us out.
The stress I’m referring to is chronic stress vs the type of acute stress we feel when we do something that takes us momentarily out of our comfort zone, such as doing something physically demanding, asking someone out on a date, delivering a speech, sky diving, or having a near-miss collision while driving home.
Read MoreFinancial bloggers often speak of the downsides associated with keeping up with "The Joneses"; the folks who seem to be living that elusive "good life".
The thoughts go a little something like this:
If only that were the extent of the consequences associated with aspirational spending.
Read MoreWe lead busy lives. We need to go places, get things, leave things, send things, receive things...you get my drift. There are only so many hours in the day that we can devote to getting things done and we try to organize ourselves to work as efficiently as possible, to cram as much as possible into every single day. Many of us feel we'd be lost without our calendar, reminders, task lists, alarms and sticky notes.
What about your "to don't" list? Do you have one of those?
Read MoreI'm tired. Tired of seeing people around me stressed out, frustrated and overloaded with work. This is not the way it has to be. Here's what we can do to change it.
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