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Hidden ways other people are stealing your work-life balance
Send us a textSupport our Friday Coffee Chats and help us bring you more insightful content! Your support makes a difference. Buy us a virtual coffee here and keep the conversation brewing. Every sip counts!Regardless of how much we try to maintain our balance, we may feel that sometimes it gets out of our control, when other people, be it colleagues or supervisors, try to steal it from us. And while they may do so unintentionally, it still leaves you feeling like your boundaries were breached and all your efforts to have a balanced life went down the drain. In this coffee chat, we uncover hidden ways your balance might be stolen without you even realizing it. We discuss real-life examples and personal situations and ways to make sure that your balance stays intact, regardless of other people's intrusions. Key takeaways: We often end up realizing that our balance was stolen from us only after it already happened.Others may steal your balance unintentionally, but it is up to you to communicate your needs.Other people's bad balance habits are not a good enough reason to guilt-trip you into believing that your boundaries are worthless. If your work is taking over your life and you struggle to unplug in the evening or even the weekend, we'd love to help you create a work-life balance that works for you!Support the showLove,Tina & Eleni Youtube | Instagram: @thehappy9to5 | TikTok: @thehappy9to5
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The way you think about your personality is holding you back in life
Send us a textSupport our Friday Coffee Chats and help us bring you more insightful content! Your support makes a difference. Buy us a virtual coffee here and keep the conversation brewing. Every sip counts!No matter who you are, we all have one thing in common: a complete and utter fascination with personality. After all, there is a reason why there are so many personality tests and personality types marketed to us everywhere. But what if our fascination with personality and our efforts to understand and make sense of our own personality is actually keeping us from reaching our full potential?In this coffee chat, we discuss the myths that surround personality, the limiting beliefs that emerge from those myths, and how you can understand yourself and others while reaching your full potential. Key take-aways: Your personality does not dictate what you can and cannot do. Your personality can change across time. Your personality is a strong tendency - it is not set in stone. If you'd like to know more about your personality, you can find a validated and reliable test here.If your work is taking over your life and you struggle to unplug in the evening or even the weekend, we'd love to help you create a work-life balance that works for you!Support the showLove,Tina & Eleni Youtube | Instagram: @thehappy9to5 | TikTok: @thehappy9to5
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How to process and learn from your negative emotions (sadness, anger, worry, envy and guilt)
Send us a textSupport our Friday Coffee Chats and help us bring you more insightful content! Your support makes a difference. Buy us a virtual coffee here and keep the conversation brewing. Every sip counts!We are so used to putting aside our negative emotions, suppressing them, or hiding them. But they are actually there for a reason. In this episode, we dive deep into the 5 biggest negative emotions and discuss how they can be powerful tools for personal growth and emotional maturity. Rather than avoiding these feelings, we explore how understanding and processing them can lead to better self-awareness and self-regulation.Key takeaways:Identifying your negative emotions through physical and mental signals is the first step to letting them goYour negative emotions are there to serve as an emotional compass for your needs, values, and desires. Becoming more emotionally aware is an essential step towards better self-development.If your work is taking over your life and you struggle to unplug in the evening or even the weekend, we'd love to help you create a work-life balance that works for you!Support the showLove,Tina & Eleni Youtube | Instagram: @thehappy9to5 | TikTok: @thehappy9to5
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Breaking free from perfectionism: Daily habits that actually work
Send us a textSupport our Friday Coffee Chats and help us bring you more insightful content! Your support makes a difference. Buy us a virtual coffee here and keep the conversation brewing. Every sip counts!If you are a perfectionist and never feel like anything that you do is good enough, this Friday Coffee Chat is for you! Perfectionism doesn't go away overnight - but there are a few practical things that you can do in your daily life to train yourself to less harsh on yourself and stop setting unrealistic standards for yourself. And this will change your relationship with yourself in the best way possible! Key take-aways: perfectionism is rooted in a deep fear of failuretreat yourself like you would treat a good friendsetting good-enough goals takes off the pressure of trying to achieve unattainable standardsIf your work is taking over your life and you struggle to unplug in the evening or even the weekend, we'd love to help you create a work-life balance that works for you! Support the showLove,Tina & Eleni Youtube | Instagram: @thehappy9to5 | TikTok: @thehappy9to5
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New year, new me - this time for real (or: the ingredients to actually stick to your goals)
Send us a textTurn your new year resolutions into reality this year by using The Balance Formula to create your dream work-life balance daily! Find it here. Are you tired of starting the new year with the best intentions to finally put yourself first, only to realize 3 months in that your old routine has caught up with you and nothing has changed?  It doesn't have to be that way - and in this coffee chat we will spill the tea on how to finally make new year resolutions work for you!Key takeaways: Setting SMART goals will turn your wishes to actionable steps. Create a plan and track your progress.Remind yourself of the WHY when you loose motivation.If you loved this episode and are excited to continue joining our Friday Coffee Chats, subscribe to never miss a chat and recommend the podcast to a friend!Support the showLove,Tina & EleniSupport the showLove,Tina & Eleni Youtube | Instagram: @thehappy9to5 | TikTok: @thehappy9to5
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