Zen Santa

My business email stopped working at the end of yesterday, just before I was about to send out my Christmas message. While the glitch was eventually resolved, I wondered about a potential philosophical meaning of this hair-tearing technical nightmare. And the following notion came to me:
This Christmas, try talking less.
Challenging advice for a blogger to [...]

Posted Under: burnout and society, burnout and stress management
This post was written by Megan on December 23, 2011 Comments (0)

The obvious problem in the workplace

 

In the business section of a newspaper recently was the headline: "Employee overload is bad for business".

The sub-head (just in case you didn't understand the headline): "Overworked staff can strip a company of its competitive edge".
Derek Parker wrote the article in the Weekend Australian (19-20 March 2011, Weekend Professional, Page 1). Not sure if Derek [...]

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This post was written by Megan on April 8, 2011 Comments (1)

The little red engine has a lot to answer for

 
The famous children's story of The Little Red Engine (first published in 1945 by Diana Ross – no, not the singer) saw the protagonist spending an awful lot of time working its way up a hill using the semi-positive affirmation “I think I can”. 
 
Here's how the story starts:
Once upon a time there was a little [...]

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This post was written by Megan on May 18, 2010 Comments (3)

The problem with the slow movement

One of my favourite books is Carl Honore's In Praise of Slow – How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed.
Just to kick-off, you've got to love the term 'Cult of Speed'. How evil does speed sound now?
Before too long (no pun intended), I'm imagining Speed on some isolated farm, asking for obscene [...]

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This post was written by Megan on April 22, 2010 Comments (2)

Are you a snoozy canary?

 
 
'Burnout' officially began in the 1970’s when everything was a blur anyway…

Obviously people were burned out out before then. But the 1970s saw the condition become 'branded'. 
Now the term 'burnout' is thrown into conversation pretty easily these days.  You either have it, or are conscious of being in danger of it, or you know people [...]

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This post was written by Megan on April 17, 2010 Comments (6)

How do you introduce yourself?

 
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 [...]

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This post was written by Megan on February 27, 2010 Comments (0)