Bliss and Mayhem

Crazy

I was going to write a post. ....... ........ ............ ............ Blink, blink,blink. Damn blinking cursor. So, I'll leave this here. Read more →

creating more time

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month." Theodore Roosevelt Some of us just come up with the best sayings, hey? Wise words from a man that died nearly 100 years ago and yet boom, still so relevant. So I ramble on here and on my Facebook page quite a bit about feeling burnt out. Even in my "about" I talk about forever searching for the elusive catch up on sleep that I have seemed to never catch up on since pushing out a couple of kids.... Read more →

Take a step back and see it as "interesting"

The human condition has fascinated me forever. As a past over-thinker, I really enjoyed observing, analysing and forming assessments of that way and the why people behaved and interacted. What makes people tick, made me tick. But with this over-thinking came plenty of anxiety because I would play words, ways things were said or not said, over and over and over again. It would bring on that anxiety of making me question my responses to situations; whether I acted correctly, said too much, not enough and was the entry point into the tailspin of paranoia and anxiety. Observation is beautiful... Read more →

Minus Five things, Add Three.

Many moons ago, I was successful in acquiring a job in management. Looking back now, I can see that my boss at the time was quite instrumental in the way that I learnt how to manage people and teams. In a way, he became a business mentor to me and provided me with priceless knowledge and information that I to this day use in work and life on a daily basis. "Try to do 3 things that is not part your normal scope of work every day" he would say. I managed 2 departments with quite a few staff members... Read more →