A brand new year is a glorious opportunity to reset your approach to work. Though it’s easy to list a hundred lofty ambitions on 1st January, we can easily lose track as the year rolls on and our optimistic ambitions sometimes prove tough to realise. By keeping things simple you’ll be far more likely to...Read More

So there I was hurtling along the street trying to catch my daughter’s balloon that the wind had plucked from her hand as she came out of school, when I crashed into the branch of a tree and ended up at the emergency department. Luckily the cut on my forehead looked worse than it was...Read More

Cara de Lange is the founder of Softer Success – How to Change your Mindset to Prevent Burnout and learn to Be more Gentle with Yourself. Helping clients create a more harmonious, peaceful and productive life. She runs workshops and gives talks that focus on relieving stress, overwhelm and how to prevent burnout. She shares...Read More

I’ll admit that it took me a few weeks to put pen to paper and write this article. Ironically, it’s because the last three months have been incredibly jam-packed with lots of exciting and challenging work – the downside, however, is that I’ve been running at full speed without any downtime. So, why I am...Read More

Ask anyone these days and they’ll say they’re busy, crazy-busy. You probably have had to listen to people go on about how busy they are. Ironic that they are so busy but they have time to tell to you about it! Somehow boasting and complaining at the same time. Being busy is not the same...Read More

In the current ‘epidemic of business’ in today’s society, our professional worth is now measured by our visibility in the workplace, and hours spent behind the computer, instead of the results or outcomes we produce. This notion of ‘presenteeism’ (being visible at the desk) is, The Hoxby Collective has found, in fact making workers less...Read More

“Where did that time go, I can’t believe the first quarter has gone already, can you?” “I know I saw you in January and it is already April, how did we get to Easter so fast!” “Is it really 2017 it seems like yesterday when I was saying welcome to 2015” Do these phrases sound...Read More