Megan Hills
"my thing-ster"
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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 [...]
It sounds crazy but it's true. Many people with burnout actually have trouble sleeping. It seems like sleep is all our bodies want from us. But when it comes to achieving it, something gets often in the way.
I regularly find that it is a kind of buzzing – mentally, emotionally or physically (or all three [...]
What do you do if you are too tired to work and you don't have a sugar daddy?
It's a damn shame that many those in our society who suffer from chronic illnesses also have the additional worry of "How the hell am I going to pay my bills??" This nagging question seems to raspberry recovery [...]
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 [...]
Some say it's often the simple things that work best. But I say it's often the crazy things that work best.
These are possibly the words of a crazy person, so can you believe them?
I want to tell you about my imaginary friends. That's right. Not just one but many. And, yes, you can be the judge [...]
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 [...]
In the best-selling book Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert called them 'goons'. She was referring to 'Depression' and 'Lonliness'.
The goons arrived to meet her as the sun was setting over the Villa Borghese in Rome. Despite the beautiful situ, Depression took her identity while Lonliness interrogated her about her motives for happiness.
It can [...]
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… [...]
