In her book titled Rising Strong, Brené Brown demonstrates how asking for help is a critical part of emotional resilience, an insight she arrived at after interrogating her discomfort with seeing people begging. There are those of us for whom the work that needs to be done is learning to ask for less help andContinue reading “‘Yes, please help me’ – leaning on others to build emotional resilience”
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Meditations on career security
The meditations are intentionally about career security because it is anchored in freedom. Career security is about our ability to create or land and maintain jobs that align with our interests and skillset irrespective of the financial position of an employer or the economic context. In contrast, job security is about not losing a specific/currentContinue reading “Meditations on career security”
Career security: Maslow’s (non)hierarchy of needs
Maslow’s model for motivation is the most popular aspect of his main contribution to society: pioneering a shift away from psychopathology and a focus on what is wrong with people to looking at how human potential can be fulfilled (Maslow, 1943). Two major criticisms of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs have been: 1. it is incompleteContinue reading “Career security: Maslow’s (non)hierarchy of needs”
Monthly affirmation (June): A poem from Upile Chisala
This month we are loving Malawian poet Upile Chisala’s Nectar. Here is an affirming poem to come back to when days are heavy this month. Love yourself with urgency. Today. Today. Today. – Upile Chisala, Nectar (@Beingupile)
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