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Halfway Through the Year, I Realised I Needed a New Vision
The Ideal Day exercise from my 2026 By Design planning guide. We’ve reached the halfway point of the year, and if your year has gone anything like mine, you may be looking back at the goals you set in January and thinking: The version of me who made those plans had no idea what this…
Read MoreI used to think my biggest problem was productivity…
Motherhood Changes the Shape of Work Once upon a time, I genuinely believed my biggest problem in life was productivity. Not unrealistic expectations. Not nervous system exhaustion. Not the fact that I was trying to mother, work, hold a household together, and somehow still feel like a functioning human. Nope. Productivity. I deep-dived productivity books…
Read MoreBuilding Work Around Motherhood
On flexible income, online work, and refusing to build a life entirely around institutions I recently saw a remote job listing aimed specifically at South Africans paying $2 an hour. Two dollars. Less than minimum wage once you convert it and stretch it across a full working day. And we can probably all picture exactly…
Read MoreMinimalist decision making
My note from The Universe today was thus; True life mastery, Christine, is more a function of knowing what to want, that knowing how to get what you want. Incidentally, my word for 2019 is minimalism. “Let’s imagine this new year as a blank slate. It’s like an empty house: what would we like to…
Read MoreOne foot in front of the other
Just keep going. Keep moving forward, one foot in front of the other. I think, that perhaps, this is my philosophy to life? Because eventually you will get there, to your dreams, your goals. It is inevitable, as long as you keep moving towards them, no matter how slow. Again, thinking of the YouTube video…
Read MoreMaybe you should embark on a quest?
Last night I stumbled upon a gem of a YouTube video. It was linked in a post recommended by one of the few newsletters I receive – I am pedantic about my inbox and only sign up to the best newsletters. Anyway, the YouTube video was a talk by Chris Guillebeau at the Google offices…
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