Fall’s An Opportunity To Rebalance Yourself: The Indoor Epidemic & Workplace Anxiety

Note: If you'd rather listen than read, you can also check out the accompanying The Middle Slice podcast episode for this article. How’s Your Mental Health Hygiene? How have you been taking care of yourself lately? If it feels like work has become your life, it might be time for a rebalance. And perhaps there’s … Continue reading Fall’s An Opportunity To Rebalance Yourself: The Indoor Epidemic & Workplace Anxiety

Running on Empty? 8 Tips to Scale Back, Focus Better, and Protect What Matters Most (Finding A Better Way to Work & Live)

Have you ever stared at your inbox, unable to open the next email—not because you do not care, but because your mind is already exhausted from everything you are carrying? Maybe you have sat in your car before a shift, needing a few extra minutes before walking inside. Or you have looked at your calendar … Continue reading Running on Empty? 8 Tips to Scale Back, Focus Better, and Protect What Matters Most (Finding A Better Way to Work & Live)

Priority Management & The Myth of Time Management: Daily Decisions That Build Us Up

“Time management is a fallacy in the strict sense. Time doesn’t need you to “manage” it; it’s been moving along just fine without you for billions of years. What we can’t manage is time itself. What we can manage is what we do with that time. And yet, the overwhelming evidence is that many professionals and managers … Continue reading Priority Management & The Myth of Time Management: Daily Decisions That Build Us Up

Stop Waiting for the Weekend: The Art of Making the Most of Your Workday and Evenings at Home

There is a quiet habit many of us fall into without noticing. We begin to treat the workweek as something to get through rather than something to live. Days are measured by their distance from Friday. Evenings become recovery time. Life, it seems, resumes later. But most of our lives do not happen on weekends. … Continue reading Stop Waiting for the Weekend: The Art of Making the Most of Your Workday and Evenings at Home

They Left Us Everything: A Memoir (Plum Johnson Book Reading)

“EVERYONE IS INTERESTING, AS LONG AS YOU ASK THEM THE RIGHT QUESTIONS" –PLUM JOHNSON Author Plum Johnson won the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize, for her book They Left Us Everything: A Memoir. As the winner of this annual award, which celebrates excellence in Canadian literary non-fiction, she received $25,000. Since receiving this award, Johnson has … Continue reading They Left Us Everything: A Memoir (Plum Johnson Book Reading)