Fun fact. The notion of ‘work life balance’ was first proposed by a renegade called Robert Owen. Can you guess when? 1817. Owen’s famous phrase was “8 hours labour, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest” neatly dividing the day into work time, play time and rest time. While the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) says …
Change can happen in an instant. Oh I’m not talking about my health destiny here, don’t worry the lightbulbs are still flickering. I just thought it may be nice to start the post from a philosophical stance. Nevertheless, a few things have come to my attention; Serendipity. My hot water system blew up. That meant I …
(sarcasm warning) I have a few moments available as I await a plane to take me to another city. Life is busy. I’m smack bang in the middle of what is called the ‘sandwich generation’ – with caring responsibilities at the younger and older ends. I want you to imagine, just for a minute what …
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Dear Nana, I received your letter today, thank you it was so lovely to hear from you. Nana, now my three kids are getting a bit bigger it really makes me wonder how you raised nine children largely by yourself. You must have spent a lot of time ‘counting to ten’ (that’s to stay calm, …
If I’m going to go down fighting (and I plan to) the topic is most certainly not going to be housework. I don’t know if it’s a forty-something thing or if I’ve just simply had my fill. But the thing I do know for sure is that I couldn’t be bothered to have one more …
This morning a most curious conversation started with tween around the breakfast bar. For a while she’s been stressing about being able to afford her medical degree (she is 12). Her new worry is that she won’t be paid the same as her male counterparts. That glass ceiling has never been my personal experience. Did …
Don’t know about you, but as I reach Christmas time thoughts of the year that was tap me on the shoulder and whisper sweet (and not so sweet) nothings in my ear. I think about what I did well, where I failed miserably, where I picked myself up again and what I’ll enhance next year. But …
Any moment now three small people are just about to bust through my front door. The school teachers are done for the day, the bus has made it’s delivery and the complaints department has opened. I’m home. I love Mondays, now I have my fancy schmancy office I no longer have to work at home. …
There’s nothing quite like those first few moments as the plane builds speed down the tarmac and whooshes up into the air. There is no escape. Work trip = locked in. Anything prior to that moment COULD (in theory) be reversed. A last moment call from home with any manner of news COULD mean a …
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A sense of being enormously grateful is very much on my mind this week. It’s a feeling that I often connect with, but even more so in this week as our country mourns the death of a young hero, Phillip Hughes. Like many people in my community of Macksville, NSW I know of his family …