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Is a mantra we often hear and one that seems to easily roll off the tongue, but what does it mean in practice? For those of use who worked/are working in a corporate environment, this is especially difficult, as controlling the outcome was/is our mandate on a daily basis. For me, the concept of “trusting…

Recently, a new friend asked for my advice, because she thought “I seemed like a person who had made good decisions in my life”. I mulled over the conversation later on, asking myself whether she was correct.  I’ve never been a reckless person, unless it comes to affairs of the heart, I guess. But that’s…

I’m not talking about doing yoga, though it applies to your body as well, if you don’t wish to break your bones, that is! I’m speaking of cognitive flexibility and how essential this becomes when you’re contemplating big life changes, as even the best laid plans can sometimes fall apart. I learned this lesson the…

In late February 2017, I did something fairly momentous and some would say, foolhardy. I “retired early” by quitting my full-time corporate gig at age 46! It is something that I’d been mulling over for the better part  of a decade. In my early musings, I never had a firm expectation of how I would…