If there’s one life skill that everyone needs to get a handle on in this world, it’s money management. Counting our piggy bank pennies was easy but adult finances are quite a bit more complicated! How we earn, spend, save and pay our way through life really is something that’s worth learning how to do well. In this blog post we’re providing some tips, advice and resources to set you on the right path to learn how to manage your money with confidence and ease.
‘Sleep is an investment in the energy you need to be effective tomorrow’ - Tom Rath
The title of this blog post is taken from the name of a very popular TED Talk by brain scientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker. So popular in fact, that at the time of writing it had almost 17 million views! Its popularity - and that of his many other TED Talks on subjects ranging from the relationship between sleep and emotions, sleep and memory, sleep and hunger and many more - is indicative of the wider concerns about and problems with sleep affecting modern-day western society.
Being emotionally intelligent means understanding feelings - both our own, and other people’s.
As much as we like to think we’re rational beings, the reality is that humans are inherently emotional. Our emotions are the lens through which we perceive and interpret the world. We react emotionally to people, places and events instantly, and then recruit our rationality to justify our emotions afterwards.
At some point in our lives, most of us come to the realisation that school hasn’t really prepared us for the outside world. For some, that realisation comes while they’re still in school, leading to disengagement and alienation from the education system. For others, it comes when we’re sitting in our first salary negotiation, or at home, wondering why it’s so much harder to make new friends as an adult.
