Life practices approach: Process and outcome Be aware of the difference between process and outcome. All too often we set our sights on a goal and end up settling for being the person who is trying to do something. It is surprisingly easy to get caught up in a process, especially one that takes a … Continue reading Navigating Process vs Outcome for Achieving Goals
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Wellness & Self Care
Our society teaches us much about how to manage material things but not a whole lot about caring for ourselves. Self care involves nurturing your mind and body. In a physical sense, our bodies tell us when something is amiss and we nurse it back to health. It’s not so easy to tell how your … Continue reading Wellness & Self Care
Coping with change: Partnering and Parenting
We go through many changes in life, and those changes affect expectations we place on ourselves, and those placed on us by others. Becoming a… Partner As a single adult we are expected to look after ourselves. When we partner with another person we become part of a couple. Expectations change to include the other … Continue reading Coping with change: Partnering and Parenting
Update to Strategic Post-pandemic Return to Work Model
Fortnightly cycle Based on feedback to a previous blog entry it seems that a fortnightly cycle of alternating one week at the office and one week remote offers a preferred work/life balance approach in terms of logistics, cost and face-to-face interaction. Alternating social interactions and focus time At the office we can meet and integrate … Continue reading Update to Strategic Post-pandemic Return to Work Model
Post-pandemic Return to Work Strategies
Two options for hybrid working Over the past year couple of years, many of us have had to cope with working remote. We have adapted to working from our homes whether it means finding a spare room to call our own, partitioning a room to accommodate more than one remote office or school, or flat … Continue reading Post-pandemic Return to Work Strategies
6 Ways to Recognize and Cope with Online Meeting Fatigue
Over the past year or so, many of us had to adapt to interacting through online video meeting software, which has proven challenging for those who were not the focus of attention at live meetings and in classrooms. As new teachers and managers will tell you, front-of-the-room skills do not always come naturally. It takes … Continue reading 6 Ways to Recognize and Cope with Online Meeting Fatigue
Dream Analysis
Dreams extract relationship from the content of experience. Dreaming about real life encounters provides us with opportunities to make sense of particular events. Dreaming about events is how we understand and learn so we can adjust our expectations and become better equipped emotionally for comparable future interactions. Write it down - Capturing the story provides … Continue reading Dream Analysis
Living in the Human Predicament
Boon – something that is helpful or beneficial. Boonism - a system of boons or practices that help you to understand yourself and others. These practices of knowing and doing are available and part of life strategies. If you are beginning to rethink your purpose and what you truly value in life, there are things … Continue reading Living in the Human Predicament
Context and Perspective: from should to is
The realization that others do not conform to your expectations is a big one. Along with that realization comes the fact that others do not see your world as you do, nor do you see their world as they do. And this affects how we interpret each other’s speech and actions. Context: consider the relationship … Continue reading Context and Perspective: from should to is
Life Practice 4: Know that under stress we regress
Knowing how you behave under stress is empowering because you be able to recognize that you are stressed, and you can invoke some of your own interventions to generate options. As we have seen in previous practices, naming something is the first step towards fixing it. Know how you are when stressed Stress is one … Continue reading Life Practice 4: Know that under stress we regress
Philosophical Consultancy - Philosophy for Life 