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As we celebrate Labour Day in North America, a new workplace trend called quiet quitting has been making headlines. It’s all about working only the hours you’re paid for—something many productive people were doing long before this trend hit the news. What’s their secret?
This week’s Simple Living Sunday post looks at ways to boost your productivity.
On May 1 of this year, I did something I’ve wanted to do for a few years now. After 40 years of full-time work, I reduced my hours and started working a 4-day work week.
Since then, I’ve heard a lot in the news about 4-day work week trials around the world. Is this just a temporary tactic to address the current war for talent, or will a shortened work week become the norm in the future of work? Let’s take a look.
It’s Mother’s Day in North America. Greetings to all the moms out there! I hope your day is filled with love, joy and laughter. Many of us would describe our moms as wise. As I continue my May Simple Living Sunday tribute to qualities I admire in my mum, today’s post looks at the difference between wisdom and knowledge, and how we can cultivate wisdom in our lives.
For a lot of people, working from home—at least part of the time—has been the new normal since the pandemic. If that’s the case for you, it’s a good idea to revisit your working habits from time to time. With that in mind, today’s post has eight easy tactics I use to stay energized when working from home.
It’s ReFired Not Retired Day—a day dedicated to changing the way we think about how we’ll live the last third of our lives. Today, I’ll look at why the time may have come to retire retirement, and focus instead on creating a plan to make the most of our best years.
November is Financial Literacy Month in Canada. For the rest of the month, I’ll dedicate my Wednesday posts to money issues.
Today, to kick things off, I’m looking at the FIRE movement. If you’re not familiar with FIRE, it stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early. It’s a popular movement, but is it a smart money strategy or a dream that’s beyond the reach of the masses?
Welcome to the second edition of Clutter Tales, a series where we tell the stories of our lives through our clutter.
In the first edition, I travelled back in time to the mid to late 1990s and reminisced about the days when we needed a book to teach us how to use the Internet. Today’s clutter find takes me back even further to high school typing class and shorthand class.
For years, parents and educators have touted university as the only path to “a good life”. Working in the skilled trades is often viewed as a last resort for students who aren’t smart enough for university or college.
Today, I look at why we need to change that view, and why careers in skilled trades are an excellent choice for students of all academic ability. Plus, some ideas on how parents, educators, governments and employers can attract more young people into the trades.
While decluttering my basement, I found a book from 1990 on workplace etiquette. As I thumbed through it, I realized how acceptable workplace behaviour has changed through the years. Some of the passages literally made me laugh out loud. Others made me realize that, although we still have work to do, we have come a long way in terms of gender equity in the workplace.
What is the future of retirement? Despite the popularity of the F.I.R.E. movement, longer lifespans have made it very difficult for most people to save enough to fund a retirement that could last as long as our working lives. Yet, the mere suggestion that retirement as we’ve come to know it will no longer exist is met with a lot of resistance from people of my generation.
