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Your Wellbeing Battery, Emoji, or Number

We start every day with a certain amount of willpower (or energy or vitality), which we can use to make a consistent commitment to our health and wellbeing. We can also use willpower to cultivate safe, helpful, diverse, energizing, reciprocal,…

What Comes After Burnout?

Burnout is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity. Due to factors such as recognition (or lack thereof), workload, and safety, nearly one third of Canadians are…

How to Bounce Back from a Bad Day

We all have bad days at work. Sometimes we fail. Sometimes we have to fire people. And sometimes (hopefully not too often) we get fired or downsized from a job that we love and/or need. To overcome such hardships professionals…

Six Strategies to Support Mental Health and Resilience in the Workplace

Mental health and resilience (both on the job and outside of it) is an increasingly important consideration for anyone. For a long time, I didn’t give it too much consideration. As my responsibilities at work have increased and as I’ve…

How to Be a Better Workaholic

Good for the Career, Bad for the Soul These days working long hours can seem like a necessary evil in order to get ahead. While impressing your boss through workaholism can be exhausting, studies show that the long hours put…