Workplace

Rethinking work-life balance: It’s about injecting life into your work

Work-life balance. That’s the dream, right? We all want to find thatĀ balance, giving us enough time and energy for bothĀ work and everything else in our life. Not only do employees want it,...

Finding Purpose

Where are you going?

Kayaking is fun. I especially love the feeling of being pushed around by the waves. You’reĀ in control, but not fully. You’re safe, but not totally. I took a kayaking course recently, and...

Apologetics

The scandal of a generous God

Ā Maybe you know the parable of the rich young man, in Matthew 19:16-30, who asked Jesus what he needed to do to attain eternal life, and left crestfallen, having been toldĀ to sell everything he...

Mental Health

If I don’t show up

Some nights, before I sleep, I browse through my phone calendar. (Not the best way to deal withĀ insomnia, I’ll admit.) I have little reminders set up for almost every day of the month. They...

Mental Health

Please, help me see

I onceĀ believed that one day I’d change the world in a good, unselfish, non-superficial way. But real life hit me hard. I was overrun byĀ a deep existential crisis. No, not the kind you feel...

Finding Purpose

Why be like everyone else? Just be you

Let’s say you’ve just entered a room. You don’t know anyone there. So you spend a bit of time observing everyone. How they move. When they speak. Where they stop. Their facial...

Culture

Winning the battle against Murphy’s Law

Have you ever had one of those days where everything that canĀ go wrongĀ goes wrong? You wake up 30 minutes late for work. You’re in panic mode; youā€™re out of the house in record speed. You...

Work

Just started work at your first job? How to transition from student to salaried worker

I’d been a student forĀ 16 years, so when it was (finally) time to graduate, I threw my mortarboard into the air with glee.Ā It was freedom at last, no more assignments, presentations, late...

Family

What a mother would give up for you

When I graduated from medical school in 2007, the plan at that time was to become a general practitioner. But thenĀ I becameĀ pregnant with our first child, Josiah ā€“ and I struggledĀ with whether I...