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Their Pain is Real: A Chef Shares Her thoughts on Her Career and Experience with Disability
“Sympathize. Try to understand that sometimes people can’t do as much as they would like to do. Don’t compare your situation with theirs. Be sympathetic to what they’re feeling and what they’re expressing. Be vulnerable enough to acknowledge that their pain is real.”
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Human Beings Have Their Limits: An Educator’s Perspective on Hard Work, Burnout and Rest
“Just because I can, doesn’t mean I should. I saw being involved in a lot of things as part of my identity. I would say yes to too many things. I believed I had more capacity to do things and then was bound by my word to follow through.”
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We Work For Every Penny: A Nurse’s Thoughts on Personal Stories, Gratitude and Being More Aware of Your Time
“Some people get paid millions to bounce a ball, meanwhile, our job is to try and save your Grandma. I personally know nurses who are taking care of other people’s relatives full-time while their own might be sick or dying.”
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Am I a Workaholic? A Content-Editor explores the Purpose of Work and its Power Over Us
“For others, work spearheads change: change in lifestyle, change in our families, change in our local communities, change globally, change in our systems, secular and sacred.”
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The human magic and gift of acknowledgement.
“Acknowledgement is a kind of human magic – a small human connection, a gift from one person to another that translates into a much larger, meaningful outcome. On the positive side, these results also show that we can increase motivation simply by acknowledging the efforts of those working with us.”
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Studying human behaviour and faith don’t have to conflict.
“Throughout this book, I have described experiments that I hoped would be surprising and illuminating. If they were, it was largely because they refuted the common assumption that we are all fundamentally rational…In fact, these examples show that we are not noble in reason, not infinite in faculty, and rather weak in apprehension.”
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On systems.
“If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
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Wear the same thing every day.
“If you’re interested in curating your own uniform, or capsule wardrobe as it is affectionately called by many, here’s a few tips:”
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Habit Stacking is saving my legs!
“Earlier this month I read Atomic Habits by James Clear. Hands down, it’s been the best read this month. Why? Lord knows I haven’t done a steady workout in about 2 years. But thanks to habit stacking, burpees, here I come!”
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