Career Woman
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‘Busy’ is not a badge of honour – stop the stress
How often do you catch up with a friend, a work colleague, a parent at your children’s school or someone in your family and when you ask them how they are, their response is “I’m so busy!”. It seems...
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Finding forgotten pieces of time
The biggest complaint everyone has is that they do not have enough time. What most people fail to remember is that we all have the same amount of time as each other. There are 24 hours in a day,...
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14 reasons to disconnect at the weekend (according to science)
Work has a horrible habit of following us around, these days – and the most ambitious of us have the equally bad habit of encouraging it. The ubiquity of the smart phone causes many of us to check emails...
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3 top ways and 6 things to stop doing to manage your time better
Exhausted? Tired? Overwhelmed by how much you’ve gotta get done – and that’s just before lunchtime? You’re not alone. Busy has become a status symbol where whoever’s the busiest wins. We wake up in the morning, world rushing at...
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The 9 biggest challenges businesswomen face — and what to do about them
In a normal working week, how many challenges do you think you face? …5? …10? …too many to count?The truth is, you don’t know and you may not be aware of them all,because they are not always clearly task-related....
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Why are female CEOs discriminated against?
The male v female debate For many years now, the debate of unfairness between men and women continue between them in the workplace. All females have ever demanded is equality; the same pay, the same rights and the same...
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4 top reasons for work stress and what to do about them
According to a recent study, approximately 40% of employees experience persistent stress or excessive anxiety on a daily basis in the workplace. That’s a huge proportion, and anybody can see that work stress is damaging to your team – and...
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I will work in this town again, but I will not work with you
Mila Kunis is leading the way when it comes to standing up for yourself against sexism and surviving. Threatened that she “would not work in this town again” (Hollywood, of course) because she wouldn’t pose semi naked on a...
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Why you shouldn’t turn down help
No-one starts out on a journey without some idea of where they want it to end. It’s true that we sometimes change course mid-journey. Sometimes, we discover something incredible while trying to find something else. As history shows, Christopher Columbus...
