When you receive feedback, how are you receiving it?

Do you brace yourself and listen? Do you nod along to what the other person is saying, but don’t hear a word or completely ignore it? Do you listen to all of it (sometimes eagerly, sometimes with a wince) and try to find a way to incorporate all of the feedback? Or, do you listen with an open mind, but filter it, using some aspects of the feedback but not all?

This week, we’ll share tips on how to receive feedback.

For the most part, multitasking is considered a “necessary part of work” in most jobs. It seems like a good way to get a lot of tasks done and to be productive, but no matter how much we may take pride in our multitasking skills, we may not be actually as good as we think we are at multitasking.

Further, this week you’ll learn how
“Doing it all gets nothing done.”

-Dave Crenshaw

Some comments or actions we may tend to take personally. It may feel like the other person is attacking, snubbing, dismissing, or disrespecting us. Even if we know it’s a trivial moment, we ruminate and roll the situation around in our head for days on end. In the end, we’ve spent a lot of emotional energy, and we may bottle our hurt and frustration.

This week, we’ll learn how to stop taking things personally, how to detect these situations, and how to regulate ourselves when we’re in the midst of stewing over them.

It’s the new year, and maybe you already have a shiny new list of goals you would like to achieve this year in the different pillars of your life; maybe it’s a recycled list of goals that you weren’t able to get to this past year; or, maybe you haven’t even started your new year’s resolutions list.

Before or as you consider your new year’s resolutions, we offer you to shift your mindset: instead of setting goals, consider setting systems.

The holiday season has begun! But, unfortunately, the holidays can easily become overwhelming, hectic, stressful, and exhausting—both at work and home.

As we plan for the holidays, it’s important to know what our expectations and boundaries are for this time of year. So, in the spirit of taking care of ourselves, this week, we are learning how to set and maintain our boundaries during the holiday season.

Do you prefer your days to be casually spontaneous or structured by routine? Even if you tend to scroll on when you see the word “routine,” we all subject ourselves to a degree of routine without knowing it. We tend to group our habits, such as brushing our teeth, making dinner, driving to work, or visiting family on the weekends, to certain times in our day, week, or year. As helpful as routines are, it can be difficult to create a new routine when you’ve had a routine (no matter how loosely or rigidly structured).

So, whether your days feel rigidly stagnant or hectic with no stability, this week, we’re learning how to build a meaningful routine that we actually enjoy!

So, you’re sitting at your desk, trying to get your work done—you’ve got a long day of work ahead of you and a big pile of tasks to work through. But then your workmates start chattering down the hall, and then the heater finally kicks on and begins humming; you hear the cars as they drive by, the clock is ticking, and…all the noises make it difficult to concentrate on your work.

Or, maybe you find it difficult to fall asleep because it’s either too noisy or completely silent.

One way to combat unwanted noise or silence is to listen to noise colors. This week, we’ll learn about the different colors of sound.

Social media is pervasive and unavoidable. You may use social media not only during your leisure but also for work or school. We may know that we shouldn’t be spending so much time on social media—the countless articles and studies have shown us time and time again how social media can negatively impact our mental health. But still, we get stuck into bad habits, mindless scrolling, comparing ourselves to others, and an unpleasant algorithm.

This week, we’re not talking about how and why social media can be bad for your mental health. Instead, we’ll share how we can create a healthy relationship with social media.

Have you ever established a goal and felt excited to start, but as the days go on, you lost the motivation to continue pursuing your goal? Perhaps life got in the way or you didn’t have enough energy—even though it’s something you still want to achieve. As a result, you dropped the pursuit of your goal, and it now remains as a dream or a far-off distant goal you may or may not achieve one day.

If you’ve experienced this, then let us propose an alternative strategy to achieving your goals: self-discipline.