Blogging about personal and professional growth every Monday for 2018.
You can change your life in an hour. I’ve got one in mind: Your lunch-hour. This isn’t a post about upgrading your diet and cutting out that daily bag of crisps. It could be but it isn’t. It is simply about employing your break time a little more thoughtfully and some of the changes I’ve…Continue Reading “#11 Change Your Life Over Lunch”
So You Want To Promote Your Blog On Facebook? You Might Have Come To The Right Place. Here’s My Actionable Guide To Maybe Achieving *Some* Traffic… The Coming Out Post You have penned that first blog post and need some peer approval, attention and reassurance. The go-to next step is posting a link to Facebook. Depending on…Continue Reading “#10 How (Not) To Promote Your Blog On Facebook”
A Masters in Procrastination Most students spend university putting off the future they are hurtling towards one hangover at a time. You couldn’t possibly make it to that career fair because you had a deadline, right? First, you have to get the 2:1 after all. Test-driving a career with a summer internship might have helped,…Continue Reading “#8 A Real-World Masters Degree”
Living with strangers in generation rent It was a Thursday evening, around 10:16pm. I’d just got home from training. I wasn’t going to elaborate on “training” but I will. Korfball training — an obscure Dutch sport that’s a cross between basketball and netball. It’s how I have spent my Thursday evenings for the past 4 years. The…Continue Reading “#7 Living with Strangers and Slugs”
My first side hustle Anyone with “entrepreneur” in their vocabulary, or familiar with Gary Vaynerchuk or Tim Ferriss will have come across the buzzword “side hustle”. If you Google it, you’ll find approximately a ton of results, a lot of which suggest easy business ideas you can start today around your 9–5. A side hustle…Continue Reading “#5 How I Started My First Side Hustle”
Failing your driving test sucks. Failing my driving test twice in one week really sucked. I’ve reflected on it A LOT since and here are the life lessons I’ve learned. Failure comes in different flavours: disappointment, frustration, regret. Sometimes we dwell on the injustice. We make excuses to others — or worse yet — to ourselves. We got unlucky….Continue Reading “#4 The 3 Lessons I Learned Failing My Driving Test Twice (In One Week)”
If I had to describe my mood of late it would be as “on edge”. I’m anxious. Things are fine but I can’t really switch my brain off. Today I got home from work — well almost — I tried to parallel-park my car and failed miserably. This happens a lot. I rode the curb, drove around in a…Continue Reading “#3 The Value of Small Gestures (Like a Bowl of Chips)”
It’s 7:30am. A weekday. My third alarm of the morning goes off. Only it doesn’t. None of them have. I wake instead to my Philips Hue lightbulb silently reaching 75% brightness. If the illumination of my room doesn’t wake me from slumber, it’s her voice. “Go get’em tiger!”, she greets me playfully. She starts to…Continue Reading “#2 My First Week with Alexa”
The 1st of January. Today is something of a landmark occasion. A new beginning and all that. Time for women around the world to take the wrapping off ill-gifted 2018 calendars. Sentenced to look at pictures of bemused cats wearing bow-ties or Michael Bublé for the next 365 days. This unique time of year carries…Continue Reading “#1 In Defence of the New Year’s Resolution”