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If You Want to Make Better Decisions, Stop Doing This

If You Want to Make Better Decisions, Stop Doing This

If you want to make better decisions, stop viewing them as right or wrong. Now, I’m not talking about ethics or morality, but with the fact that we often fall in love with our preferred choice in a decision that must be made. It becomes the “right” choice which makes everyone else’s preferred choice “wrong”. When someone disagrees with us, we don’t take it as more information or another viewpoint, it’s them telling us that we are wrong, and we don’t like that. It becomes “my

How To Make a Decision When You Don't Know What to Do

How To Make a Decision When You Don't Know What to Do

As a therapist, I commonly see people who are struggling with making big life decisions, especially ones with seemingly important implications for the future. We live in a world of many choices and are faced with countless decision points throughout our day. As our world has become more advanced, we have far more choices presented to us than humans did even a few hundred years ago. But is this vast array of choices actually helpful? While choices certainly increase our agency

Finding Your Path to Purpose Through Fear

Finding Your Path to Purpose Through Fear

I was never that person who knew exactly what I wanted to do in life. I had friends who knew from an early age that they wanted to be a teacher, a nurse, a dentist, or a social worker. That was never me. My ideas of what I wanted to be were always changing because I enjoyed doing many things. I remember wanting to be a marine biologist because I loved dolphins, I wanted to be a veterinarian because I loved animals, and I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher because I enjoyed t

11 Best Career Options to Become a Digital Nomad

11 Best Career Options to Become a Digital Nomad

Thinking about being a Digital Nomad? High schoolers know the standard questions as they approach graduation: what are you going to do or what do you want to do? Don’t worry about how to answer such silly questions. Most of us never really know what we want to be “when we grow up.” Instead, think about the possibilities ahead of you. Perhaps you have been considering some kind of career that allows you to work remotely. The idea of working in your pajamas or while exploring a

How to Find Your Calling

How to Find Your Calling

Are you still figuring out your calling? Wondering what you can do today to get closer to why you're really here? In this interview with Daria Tsvenger, Mindset expert and host of the personal development program “Dream Sprint”, she shares insightful and practical strategies for finding your calling. What are your go-to brainpower strategies for figuring out your calling? IF THEY CAN DO IT - YOU CAN DO IT The first step is to understanding what are you envious of, and what ma

Decision Making - Using A Compass Vs GPS To Find Your True North

Decision Making - Using A Compass Vs GPS To Find Your True North

Are you using a compass or GPS to guide you through all things life? There’s a big difference between the two. Let me explain. A GPS provides a highlighted route and step-by-step directions to arrive at a predetermined destination. You enter the address of where you’re going and it knows where you are currently. It will simply highlight a route to show how to get from point A to point B. Two people who have the same beginning and end locations will take the exact same path. A

How Teens Can Explore Their Life Passions

HOW TO MANAGE ANXIETY - 7 TIPS

HOW TO MANAGE ANXIETY - 7 TIPS

Today, it's common knowledge that we all experience stress. In fact, this is what makes us human. But stressors don't start in adulthood, so it's extremely important that we also include children in these discussions. The statistics show that mental illness has never been so high. On average, 1 in 5 adults have mental health issues and the rate of depression and anxiety in youth is rising. Here are 7 tips you can use to manage the inevitable ups and downs before they spiral o

3 Things You Can Do To Kick Start Your New Year

3 Things You Can Do To Kick Start Your New Year

Does New Years Day feel like just any other day to you? For most of us it does - minus the exhaustion that crashes down on us following the Christmas and New Year's celebrations. We already know we're becoming an increasingly worried and extremely stressed population due to the overload of information thrown at us. What we should do and what we shouldn't do, only to find advice somewhere else that tells us the opposite. But the 1st January takes things to a whole new level. I

Why it’s OK to change your major — even three times

Why it’s OK to change your major — even three times

This is a great article on why it's ok to change our majors at University! Missouri State University share three lessons to ease the anxiety around have to select your course... - - - - - - - - - - - - As of the spring 2018 semester, earning a bachelor’s degree from Missouri State University requires the completion of at least 120 credits. No matter how long it takes for you to reach that number, it’s always centered around one defining characteristic: your major. It’s a labe

My career advice? Simple: follow your passions.

My career advice? Simple: follow your passions.

I was never one of those people who knew exactly what they wanted to ‘be’ from a young age. My professional aspirations see-sawed between journalism and fashion design, to speech pathology and back up dancing (for Janet Jackson, to be specific). Being forced to choose subjects in Year 10, that would narrow down my interests into Year 11 and 12, was torture. I knew what I was good at – English, mainly. But I liked lots of other subjects too – Environmental Science, Photography

5 Things That Matter More Than Getting Into Your Dream Course

5 Things That Matter More Than Getting Into Your Dream Course

Worried you won't get into your dream course? Junkee.com explore the 5 things that are more important than getting into your dream course... The moment you log into your course authority and don’t see your dream course sending you an offer can seem like the end of the world. While you definitely have the right to be upset, it’s also important not to let it be the be all and end all because it isn’t. In fact, there’s a plethora of things that matter way more than what course y

The Finishing School Book- Review From A Graduate

The Finishing School Book- Review From A Graduate

Throughout my schooling years, I felt as though everyone around me knew exactly what they wanted to do after school- study to be a doctor, a dentist or an engineer. To say the least, I felt very very stressed because I had no idea what I wanted to do. How could I? I hadn’t ever experienced any of these jobs so how could I just pick one to do for the rest of my life? I did heaps of online career quizzes, met with career counsellors and spoke to friends and family. Not one of t

A Job Doesn't Have to Be for Life

A Job Doesn't Have to Be for Life

No matter what move you are making, there will always be opportunities to change the direction of your career path if you need to, writes Joseph Barber. Many of you have probably heard the saying “A dog is for life, not just for Christmas.” It is a reminder to parents to tell their children that while they may really want a puppy, they have to realize that they can’t just throw it into the cupboard or leave it lying around on the bedroom floor like their other holiday gifts w

Finding My Path: Podcast Interview

6 Best Podcasts for Finding Your Path

6 Best Podcasts for Finding Your Path

The American author Steve Berry famously said, "Everyday decision making around the world is constantly based on what came before us." Today, podcasts are a great free resource that we can use to help us do just that. As we listen to the words of others - we can learn about the different options out there and consider which path we would like to take next. Below are 6 great podcasts you can listen to when finding your path. 1. The Tim Ferriss Show Tim Ferriss is an American a

5 Resume Tips for Grads

5 Resume Tips for Grads

Your resume is your tool when applying for jobs. It should summarise your experience and outline why you’re the right person for the position. It can be overwhelming when putting together your resume for the first time! To get you started, here are 5 simple tips you can follow to land yourself an interview. 1. Choose a font, style and size that’s easy to read and stick to it throughout your resume You can also use templates available in Microsoft Word. Even easier than workin

Being Young & Making an Impact

Being Young & Making an Impact

Natalie Warne is this week's inspirational pathfinder. At 17 years old, Natalie started working for the 'Invisible Children', a humanitarian aid organization. What was initially a 5-month internship, grew to be a path of passion and impact. Natalie's commitment and urge to make a difference set her off on a journey that is nothing short of inspirational. This story is much more powerful coming from Natalie's mouth, so please watch her share her story below. A story that gives

3 Reasons to Visit Singapore

3 Reasons to Visit Singapore

Before my first Singapore visit in 2013, I'd heard one constant thing about this place, over and over again - "It's a very clean city." Is this something you've heard too? Surely it's impressive if each time you say Singapore you hear "clean". I was so eager to see how clean this place really was. Did the buildings shimmer? How clean were we talking? I remember finally arriving and almost being let down. But sure - it's clean comparative to it's neighboring Asia countries. Ho

Words To Someone Making The Leap After School

Words To Someone Making The Leap After School

These are some of my favorite words written for someone making the leap after school. America's most famous poet today, Billy Collins, shares a poem written for his 17-year-old daughter. While I love the words, I prefer hearing Billy read it out loud. See below - recorded at a TED Conference. To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl: “Do you realize that if you had started building the Parthenon on the day you were born, you would be all done in only one more year? Of c