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Feeling tired or burned out?

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  Feeling tired from work is common and can be caused by many different factors. Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to reduce fatigue and maintain a healthy work-life balance.  Work can wear you out, whether your job requires physical labor or not. There’s more than one way to feel tired, and the daily demands of your job can leave you physically and  emotionally weary , even if you spend your days behind a desk.  Other stressors — such as relationship issues, financial worries, or health concerns — can intensify the strain. And then there’s  COVID-19  which is still around.  If you’re still going in to work, you  might find  that you feel extra-exhausted from the added stress of worrying about potential exposure to the new coronavirus on the job. You definitely not alone many people in New Zealand are facing Covid.  If you now  work from home , you might feel slightly safer — at the cost of greater pressure to blur the boundaries between work and home.   It’s all too co

7 ways to create a vision for the life you want.

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Do you ever feel completely lost when it comes to the future? As I approach my 40’s, I’ve been thinking a lot about what my life might look like in a few years. I don’t have a typical “career”, I’m not married, I don’t have kids, and I don’t know when or if these things might happen (or if they’ll even happen at all). Apart from the fact I have health issues with epilepsy.  I know people who have their entire lives planned around these things, and then there’s me, chillin’ in my own little world. It’s easy to get caught up thinking that I need to have everything figured out because society says I should. There are times when it seems like everyone else knows what to do, yet I’m completely clueless. Though I’ve never had a super detailed plan for my life, I’ve always had a vision of what I want it to look like. From that vision, I’ve tried to make my  goals ,  values , and  habits  align in some way or another. Good old journaling helps to identify what I want for my life. Sometimes all