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What Do You Really Want?

Posted on May 6, 2014June 9, 2017by Vanessa Smith
What do you really want

A comment I just posted over on Emily Hawker’s blog has made me think. Well, the blog post made me think too, obviously, if I commented on it.   What do you really want? Out of life? Out of work? Out of free time?   And how often do you realise that you need to review […]

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Balance

Posted on February 24, 2014June 9, 2017by Vanessa Smith
Balance

I’ve been working hard in the past week on maintaining a balance. It has been hard. Work, applying for jobs, interviews, hot days with high humidity…last week was very long.   I’m happy with the balance I found. But what I was a bit shocked at was the effort it took to maintain the balance. […]

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Meditation

Posted on February 15, 2014June 9, 2017by Vanessa Smith
Meditation

Meditating isn’t something that comes easily to me. And I still hear the word and think it’s a bit wankery. But that touches on other issues that are too complicated to go into here. We had to meditate in a class at school a few times. I think the first time was a once off, in […]

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Work is not a place to be happy

Posted on October 10, 2013November 16, 2017by Vanessa Smith

I’m clawing up the walls. Life is just a bit hard right now and I’m struggling through it. The good news is that I’ve been there before and I know it does get better. I just need to ride out … Continue reading →

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