By Do you know your strengths? Does knowing what you are good at mean you a conceited person? Absolutely not! You need to be aware of your strengths and weaknesses to be a success. I can assure you that asking about greatest strength and greatest weakness is a fairly popular interview question, so you have to …
Ikigai and what you can be paid for
Part 2 in our 4 part series is ‘What you can be paid for’. For me it was easy to say what the world needs (and yes I hear Dionne Warwick singing EVERY TIME – Love, sweet love!). In my opinion, these Ikigai elements become increasingly difficult to delve into as we progress through them. …
Ikigai, What the World needs and Rising up against hunger
In my journey to Mary 2.0 I have been noodling about what I want to do as well as what I don’t want to do with the time I have left on this earth. This isn’t meant to be morbid or a confession of some terminal illness. This is me searching for my “Ikigai”. What …
Setting Boundaries
In the musical Oklahoma’s song “I cain’t say no!”, poor Ado Annie laments about the trouble she gets into because she says yes when she ought to have said no. While her issues are with her beaus’ advances, there is a valuable lesson to be learned here. Saying no can help you, even though you …