Megan Hills
"my thing-ster"
Writer &
Cartoonist
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A powerful realisation came upon me when Jeff – my partner – and I were browsing in a gift store. It wasn't just any gift store. It was the only gift store in town.
The town had recently become our new home, and we were hoping that the move would be, in itself, a kind [...]
In my world of slow, I've been reading a book about fast decisions. The book is called 'Blink' by Malcolm Gladwell (author of the best seller 'The Tipping Point').
The sub-title to 'Blink' is particularly appealing to this foggy-brained burnee: "The power of thinking without thinking". The book is about intuition, essentially.
From reading 'Blink', one [...]
Yesterday I was feeling pretty lousy. You know those days that can officially be called 'The dark end of the street'? But I found myself doing something a little different to turn that feeling right around…
I picked up the phone and called a friend. Doesn't sound unusual, I know. But wait, there's more… [...]
The last Burnout Thing post saw me trying out 7 definitions of burnout.
You would think one definition might be enough, but us 'burnees' have a habit of over doing it.
A thought about dictionaries
I have a theory. Perhaps an official definition of burnout might seem a little cold and irrelevant to someone in the midst [...]
