Welcome to the Saturday recap. Enjoy!
Personal Development
This week, we continued our focus on occupational wellbeing looking at our career through a number of different perspectives. I hope a few will resonate with you and have you thinking a bit differently about where you are and what’s ahead.
Chasing Dreams. This first post explores how our career dreams align with (or not) our overall life dreams and what we can do to bring more alignment across all areas of wellbeing.
Income Portfolios. We diversify our savings for the future, but rarely think about our income as having the potential for diversification. This post focuses on actions we can take to spread income risk.
Navigating Career Advice. We are the only ones who can know what is a “right” career move. This post reminds us that even those closest to us who mean to support, have their own careers in mind.
Careers as a Play. This post uses a theatre analogy to consider if companies and positions are a right fit for us. Considering the cast, set, props, and more can provide insight on our professional experience.
Career Journey Map. Many have used journey maps to plan customer experiences. What if we applied this tool to our careers and explored what we were thinking, feeling, and doing at different stages?
One Shade Greener
This week, the sustainability post – Secondhand Trends – discusses a chart from Statista that shows the growth of secondhand shopping in 8 countries between 2019 and 2023.
If you are interested in starting or continuing a sustainability journey, One Shade Greener at Home, could be the perfect resource. Full of brands and links to put greener products at your fingertips.
PodList
The PodList this week is an eclectic mix of topics with a loose theme of focus, value, and productivity.
Busyness is a Kind of Debt. 11 minutes. Optimal Living Daily. This podcast talks about getting to zero clutter or inbox zero and how this feels like paying off a credit card debt.
The Weight of Emotional Clutter. 9 minutes. Optimal Living Daily. This episode paired nicely with the first selection focused on removing clutter from our lives to release emotional burdens.
How to be Impactful in Meetings. 7 minutes. Modern Mentor. This episode provides good, quick ideas on how to minimize the number of meetings you have and maximize the value of the ones you attend.
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport. 18 minutes. The Next Big Idea Daily. During this podcast, Cal Newport provides a high level summary of his new book “Slow Productivity”.
Success is About Focusing on One Think at a Time. 8 minutes. Optimal Work Daily. This episode discusses how we overestimate what we can do in a year, but underestimate what is possible in 10 years.