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Effectively Communicate Using the 4 Cs of Communication from an Institutional Communications MajorHere are some communication strategies used by professionals across all of the industries I have worked in: Insurance, HR Tech, Banking, Consulting, Mental Health Tech, IT Consulting, Consumer Goods, and Transport & Logistics - now you have the 4 Cs explainedBeing an effective communicator require...

Why Being Different Makes You Unstoppable | The Hidden Power of Being Uniquely YouMany of us are still figuring out how to accept ourselves for who we are. If we think about the things that we do, the people that we are connected with, and the ways that we show up, a lot of it is rehearsed, polished, and fuelled by the fear of rejection and abandonment. Rather than fight against the norms, dogmas,...

How to Find Clarity When it Matters the Most | Building a Lifestyle that Helps Feel Decisive & ClearWe each have been at a crossroads, where we had to make a call. If your focus is on making the right choice for you, irrespective if whether it's the popular choice, the resented choice, or the disruptive choice, then finding clarity matters. Equipping ourselves to get clear and tap into cla...

3 Way to Recharge | Why Making Time for Restoration is Critical to Lead a Healthy & Balanced Life ✅Sometimes it is the simplest of acts, that have the most powerful impact. Making restoration a priority is one of those acts. While many people might scoff and reference the million and one things that they need to do that keep them from recharging, these are the same few that are battling with...

Learning to Value Difference | Small Steps You Can Take to Celebrate Your Sense of IndividualityInner alignment and being comfortable with who you are, is uncommon. Many people have anxiety at the thought of someone unmasking them, gripped by their own sense of imposter syndrome. Carefully curating the versions of ourselves that we share in public, while allowing shame to fester around the parts o...

Staying Clear from Ugly Compromises | Differentiating Between Concessions that Help and Hurt 😢 Not all compromises should be made. It isn't always the case that your willingness to compromise makes you the good guy. A lot of times the exact opposite is true. If it feels like you're selling out, you're better off not making the concession and walking away. If no one took the time to te...

3 Easy Ways to Stay Grounded | Learning How to Ground Yourself as a Practice and not a State of MindWhat does feeling grounded bring out in you? Feeling grounded is the first step to feeling creative, capable and finding clarity on how you want to approach the things that matter the most to you. A lot of people recognize the state of feeling grounded when it happens, but few of us recognize that w...

Giving Yourself Permission to Express Yourself, Emotionally | Finding Alignment in Self-ExpressionA large percentage of us were not raised in environments where we felt psychologically safe enough to express ourselves emotionally. For many of us, the only way to survive was to adapt. By adapt I mean to repress and suppress our emotional expression, to accommodate the people around us who, took iss...

Think Before You Act. How Strategic Thinking Helps You to Ask for Forgiveness and not for PermissionMost decisions do not need to be made on the fly. Many of us manufacture the time-sensitivity to our decision-making. Don't believe me? Take into consideration all of the times you had to take your foot out of your mouth, backpedal, or apologize. All of those instances could have been avoided if...

3 Healthy Habits to Help You Manage and Navigate Conflict | Develop the Toolkit to Lead a Happy LifeWhatever your attitudes or beliefs are around conflict - they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Experiencing differences in opinion is a natural part of life, where we are all free to think, speak, and choose as we please. So, it's important to develop the tools to manage the conflicts and day-to-...

Learning to Make the Right Call | Navigating Health & Wellness and Building a Network of ExpertiseThere is not a lot that compares with the intimidation we feel, when we find ourselves confronted with how little we know about our own health. This is especially the case when we have an issue with our health and while we want better and to do better, it's hard to know which experts to lean o...

Learning to Think Critically | Understand the Prerequisites to Thinking Expansively & IndependentlyThinking critically requires a few corresponding characteristics. It would be hard to think critically, if you've limited your decisions to what others have told you, or if your personal set of beliefs limit you. It's equally hard to think critically if you find that you are easily fright...

3 Things that Steal Your Peace | Getting Rid of the Habit of Being Stressed and Feeling Anxious 😌🔆You are going to come across people, places, and things that are simply not going to be worth your time. That, is not something most people would argue or contest. Sometimes the hardest things to detect are the habits that we ourselves indulge in, that steal away from our sense of peace. It's im...

3 Ways to Protect Your Peace | Making a Habit of Removing Unwanted Stress from our Daily Lives 👀✅Not every bid for your attention deserves your attention. Especially if it's going to cost you your peace. Many of us have normalized the stress that we experience. So much so that we fail to do an inventory of what stressors can go. Not every worry is worth the time and energy it demands. It&#39...

Understanding Self-Advocacy as Communicating a Boundary | Articulating Your Needs & Defending SelfAs we follow-up from our video last week, we pivot and focus on the topic of self-advocacy. Many of us do not understand what it means to advocate for our rights, wants, needs and desires. This is mostly because the trail that was blazed on our behalf was done so well, we never really needed to th...

3 Boundaries You Never Knew You Needed | Subtle Ways to Set the Tone for Respectful Communication 👀While it would be nice to think that baseline respect is a no brainer, for the majority of the conversations we entertain, that's not always the case. Sometimes it is the boundaries that we enforce, that represents the only limit to the amount of disrespect we will tolerate. It's easy to bru...

Learning to Minimize Energy Debt | How to Prioritize Energy Management as a Core Lifestyle Choice ✅Chronic burnout is a thing. Burnout can be easily avoided if you keep your energy management strategy top of mind. There's an art and science that enables equilibrium; between the energy we expend and the energy we get back. Many of us haven't found a happy medium. Here are a few points that...

Taking Radical Responsibility for our Growth | Being Intentional About the Person You are BecomingEvery choice bears its own consequence. While we typically equate consequences to external factors, we often overlook the weight of our decisions on ourselves. We discount the impact that our actions, behaviours, and thoughts have on our evolving sense of self. The impact our agency, or lack thereof,...

3 Conflict Habits to Knock Off | Removing Maladaptive Tools to Lead a Healthy & Happy Life | Part 2Not all conflict styles are created equal. There are ways of expressing our anger and frustration that will ultimately; helps us, as well as hurt us. It's important that we learn to appreciate the difference between the habits that serve us, and the habits that don't. Even when emotions a...

Live Well & Feel Well | The Pathway to Wellness is Paved with Daily Quick Wins that Pack a Punch! 😌When it comes to wellness, there is great impact in the smallest of indulgences. Whether it's enjoying a tea with a friend, going for a jog, doing yoga, or indulging in a sweet treat, there is something to be said about taking the time to feel good. When was the last time you went out of you...

Why You Should Master the Art of Indifference? Learning to Reserve Your Energy for What Serves YouYou care too much. Specifically, about putting your energy into the people, places, and situations that you already know don't serve you. And how do you know? Because you don't particularly like the people, places, or situations in question. Why ruminate and spend time thinking about, or expen...

Developing a Healthy Intolerance to Our Ignorance | Why You Should Challenge Any Uninformed OpinionsI fundamentally believe in freedom of speech. We all have the right, and in some cases, the responsibility to speak up and communicate our perspectives. Whether this be in the social-political arena or in our personal lives, our voice carries weight. It's important to leverage our voices where w...

Valuing Our Non-Shared Experiences | What We Survive Gives Us a Unique & Refreshing Point of ViewMuch of life up until we graduate from school prepares us for similar experiences. There are very few of us competing for the same role, or interested in the same opportunities who bring skills, competencies, and talents that are strikingly different from one another. As they say, "Birds of a...

4 Easy Habits to Start Honouring Yourself | Practical Tips to Live a Happier, Healthier Life 🔆👀How you treat yourself matters. Unfortunately, not many people believe that this is the case, or incorporate behaviours that honour themselves. More often than not, society seems to value self-deprecation and self-loathing in others, and consider acts of self-love and self-respect as indicators of arro...

Confronting Your Fears | Learning that Life is Best Lived On the Other Side of What Scares You 👀🔆✅Fear does not need to be crippling. For many of us it is. I consider myself as being fearful of many things. Many wouldn't be able to tell, because while I acknowledge the fears exist, I refuse to be a slave to anything that scares me. It's important when you have a fear, that you confront...