Top tips for career fulfilment
Career fulfilment is when you find a career that balances your interests and your skills and combines your passions and your strengths. Having a sense of fulfilment with your career can lead to overall satisfaction and happiness with your job.
Must-read novels this winter season
We’re now facing those months of winter when all we want to do is curl up in front of a cosy fire with a hot drink and a good book.
Three tips for mental toughness
The week I began to write this piece on mental toughness, one of my children became very ill. I hardly had time to finish the first paragraph when things escalated and within days, five of my tiny people were on antibiotics. I might not have felt tough but the situation certainly was.
Podcast #56 | Is Commitment Necessary to Be Happy?
In today's podcast we discuss how making a commitment to something, whether in your personal life or your professional life, is one of the most fundamental activities of success.
#55 | 10 Tips to Develop Self-Mastery
Can you be the master of yourself? Why is self-mastery something we should strive for? It is not something that is controlling or negative. Instead, self-mastery is about cultivating an openness to constant improvement.
3 steps to follow to make better decisions
Decisions – the pain of making them … how well we know it We crave clarity. We know deep down that we do not have all the answers.
#54 | Patience - The Magical Virtue
Do you find yourself rushing through your days ... your life? Perhaps getting impatient with those around you? In this podcast episode, we explore the virtue of patience.
#53 | Carmel Kelly - Where Life Has Brought Me
In this podcast episode, our guest Carmel Kelly, a family doctor, talks to us about her life growing up in Boston, Clare and her working life in the other Boston in Massachusetts. We explore the influence family and upbringing have on us as adults and the impact they have in shaping our core values.
How to slow things down this summer
Maybe some of us are still waiting for summer to come, for those long days of endless sunshine and heat. Why wait? Let’s seize the moment and enjoy our summer right now. Especially as the longest day of the year has recently passed us by. How can we do this?
#52 | Where Do You Find Joy?
Joy is what we are called to as Christians. And yet, so often, we find we are less than joyful!
7 must-read books for summer
It’s that time of year again - long lazy days of sunshine, or days spent under a tree in the garden, or lying on a warm beach. And of course, we all want to escape and spend time in another world that is different from the one we inhabit.
6 podcast episodes worth listening to
There are many great podcasts out there … but sometimes it can be hard to find an episode that you know you’ll really enjoy and doesn’t have you scrolling for the next one. Here is a short list of 6 of them we know you’ll love.
How to future-proof your life and career?
With Covid and all its implications; lockdowns, working from home and everything else, we now all realise that we live and depend on technology and soon this technology is moving onwards towards a more digitalised era. That in itself is enough to force us to future-proof our life, our choices, and indeed our careers.
Podcast #49 | Jennifer Kehoe - How to Have an Organised Home Within Your Budget and Time?
On this podcast episode, Jennifer Kehoe talks about how to get your house clean and welcoming while even enjoying the process, within the time and budget you have.
Podcast #46 | How to Overcome Negative Self-Talk
It’s always good to consider the ways that we need to improve. But there’s a difference between self-reflection and negative self-talk. Negative self-talk isn’t constructive, and it rarely motivates us to make any changes.
A Night In for Ukraine
On Thursday, April 7th @ 7 pm, Glenard Residence are holding a fundraiser for Ukraine called a "Night In for Ukraine".
Podcast #45 | Audrey McMahon - How Volunteering Changed My Life
Audrey is the Chief Operations Officer of Citywise Education. Citywise is a not-for-profit organisation which was set up to run education, sporting and personal development programmes. In this interview, we discuss how Audrey came to know of Citywise and the impact it made on her life.
Podcast #44 | The Importance of Little Things
Our everyday routine is made up of little things: making breakfast, cleaning up, arriving on time for a meeting, parallel parking… In this podcast episode, we talk about the deeper meaning behind all these “little” things.
Podcast #43 | Can Poetry Change You?
Is poetry something that is incomprehensible to you? Our guest on this episode is British poet and writer, Sally Read. Sally didn’t always “get poetry” and yet poetry had a transformative effect on her.
The beauty and pain of loneliness
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank
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