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Health and Wellbeing
Mental health awareness, sleep optimization, and holistic approaches
13 posts
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Sleep apnoea, A success story
Interesting article in The Magazine about sleep apnoea experiences. I blogged previously about my own experiences with this disorder - fortunately, my case is less severe than the authors'.
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Overcoming Obstacles
This inspirational talk by Nick White at the Wellington Ignite Conference gives an insight into what its like for an avid public speaker to overcome head and neck cancer and the loss of his voice.
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Depression and getting help
This article was linked by Macdrifter overnight and, as is often the case, Gabe has come up with gem. It's by Rob Delaney a US comedian, reflecting on his depression and the importance of getting help.
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How to accomplish more by doing less
Rings true to my own experience. It's not just the number of hours we sit at a desk in that determines the value we generate. It's the energy we bring to the hours we work.
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Maintaining physical social and mental fitness
Since I subscribed to the Harvard Business Review blog posts I have seen a steady stream of sharply observed and well thought out pieces. Many are aimed at corporate efficiency however a good smattering challenge the existing order and some are just timely good advice like this one.
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The innovators secret weapon
Six practical habits of innovative thinkers — keeping an idea journal, cultivating hobbies, reading widely, taking long walks, volunteering, and helping others create. A timely reminder that innovation grows from a richly lived life, not just focused work.
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The Apple of zen
Few people knew that Steve Jobs had a serious Zen practice, or that his teacher was Kobun Chino Otogawa. A dharma talk by teacher Peg Syverson considers what Jobs' life and death can teach the rest of us about attention, creativity and impermanence.
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This precious life
A luminous passage from Paul Bowles on the finitude of experience — how many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. A quiet call to pay attention to the life you are actually living.
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Top 5 death bed regrets
Palliative nurse Bronnie Ware recorded the most common regrets of the dying — and the most frequent of all was not having had the courage to live a life true to oneself. A sobering and clarifying reminder of what actually matters.
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Putting things off
A pointer to a piece on changing the way we work — slowing down, being more deliberate, and questioning the assumption that constant availability and busyness are virtues worth cultivating.
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Whats lurking under the lid
Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food skewers "nutritionism" and offers simple, memorable rules for eating well. This post takes his thinking further with a closer look at the plasticisers lurking in the PVC seals of glass jar lids — a hidden hazard even in organic products.
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Healing power of chooks
This post has been in my mind since I saw a wonderful program ABC TV. The program 'Rare Chicken Rescue' has two themes, one is depression and the other is about rescuing rare chicken breeds.
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Managing information overload
Saw this great cartoon over at Devon-Technologies which I have been visiting lately as I start to tackle my own information overload.
