The Traveling Introvert

Hello and welcome to the traveling introvert. Today I want to talk about accountability. It’s come up a lot recently with some of the work that I’ve been doing with clients and some of the work I’ve been doing with organizations. And it can come from things such as people saying, no one holds managers accountable. It could be, I need to do this thing, but I have no one to keep track of. Or I have a client working on a project, and I’m the kind of person that doesn’t get stuff done, unless there’s a huge time limit, or a milestone that I need to hit by a certain date. They need that external force, that validation, that accountability. And here’s thing, the way life is set up, we get toward accountability at an early age in school and University and at work, if you work for your if you work for a company, there is external accountability, because you have a manager. But if you work for yourself, or there’s some personal stuff, it’s really kind of not as easy to get accountability. And accountability is really

Hello and welcome to the traveling introvert. Today I want to talk about living by your core values. So, here’s the thing, hopefully, if I ask you, what are your core values? You have an idea of what those might be. Your personal core values are thing that you believe are most important in life. These principles guide and dictate how you live your life and how you make decisions. Developing your personal core values is a really important exercise that can help you clarify what is most important to you. Knowing your personal core values ensures that you commit better decisions, set boundaries and help you live a far more, sort of, authentic feeling in life. And so, if you don’t know what your core values are right now, that’s OKAY. There are ways to kind of, and I’m going to talk about ways to develop and to sort of help you live by your personal core values. And these might change over time. Don’t think that because you’ve OKAY, I’ve, I’ve got core values check, and I should live by them. They may change just

Hello and welcome to the traveling introvert. Today, I’ve talked about Burnout in the past, but today I want to talk about why it is so common, the commonality of burnout, why almost every person that you talk to in a room will have experienced burnout in some way, shape or form, during their lifetime. And right now, more people the most probably experiencing burnout within the past two to three years. According to dictionary.com, burnout is a state of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion. And is categorized by feelings of doubt and disinterest. But most importantly, a decreased sense of accomplishment on achieving your goals. Burnout occurs when you feel like you are unable to meet the demands of your life, and you’re not getting the support that you needed to cope and carry on. And this is a problem that generally is caused by chronic stress.When you are under chronic stress, your body is in a constant fight or flight state. This can lead to physical symptoms such as headaches, insomnia, gastrointestio

Hello and welcome to the travelling introvert. Today I wantto talk about work, working hard. We have a habit of wanting to be always seenas working hard. And there's a difference between being a hard worker andalways working hard.Working hard is often lauded as like the key to success. Youmust work hard, pull yourself up by your bootstrap, struggle through, keepgoing. And the thing is, there is levels and working too hard can actually be verybad for you. And there are a lot of different ways how overworking, more thanworking too hard, is bad for you and can negatively affect your life. If youwant to be happy and balanced and successful, overworking isn't the way to go.You can do it in short sprints, but for long periods of timeit's not the best thing to do because it can lead to burnout. When a person isburnt out, they might feel like they can't keep going, or they're not cut outfor the demands of their job. However, burnout therefore can lead toabsenteeism, lower productivity and increased risk of error. If

What Is Introversion?This is the tendency of turninginward more. Introverts spend most of their time analyzing what happening othem and around them. They are more in touch with their feeling and thefeelings of others. They take time to energize and recharge in their lives.They also need people in their lives unlike what most people think. It is onlythat it is different for them. They just need a balance.Journey into learning oneselfMost introverts at an early age,think something is wrong with them. They tend to be extroverts only because itdoes not work for them.  There is thisone point that people forget, Introverts Think then speak while extrovertsspeak to think. Understanding this will make you understand more about thesetwo people. Introverts will tend not to note their surrounding as most of thetime they are in their heads.Their behaviors come to themnaturally. Most books that are out there, there were written for extrovertsrather than introverts. It's not true to think that introverts generally wan

This is a bonus episode for national introvert dayIntroversion These are the kind of people who are more comfortable aloneor in a room of people who are hardly interacting with each other. As forAngela, she might be an Ambivert which is a person who has a balance of bothintrovert and extrovert. This highly depends on the circumstance or setting. Job RecruitmentHR professionals have more to them than what we see. Theyhave to make decisions for the company and keep the company alive from thesidelines. There is a misconception that HR is just for recruiting and protectingthe company.In a company, the HR manager should be able to makedecisions based on the information got from both the company's side and theworker's side. This is very important since in some cases there are wrongfulterminations.HabitsRegular habits are very important in a person's life. Somehabits are hard to break but others are not even worth breaking. These habitsare the ones that help us in life, may it be meditation, reading, and more.These

Speaker 1 (00:01)Hello and welcome to the traveling introvert. Today I want to talk about burnout. I know I talk about this a lot, but for this particular episode, I want to talk about the fact that burnout is not just about being stressed out. I was having a conversation with a client recently and they we're talking about the end of the year and list of stuff to do and just general stuff to do and having projects in mind and what are you going to do next year? And the usual stuff that happens around this time of year, which happens to be the end of the year, in case you're listening at some other time.Speaker 1 (00:43)And I mentioned that, hey, maybe you don't want to do anything for the next month because you're showing signs of burnout. And the response was like, yeah, but this is the least stressed job I've ever had. How could I possibly be displaying signs of burnout? And so there was a couple of things that were interesting. One, that because they said they were very used to being in very toxic work cul

Speaker 1 (00:01)Hello, and welcome to the travelling introvert. Today I'm gonna talk about work life blending. So I was talking with a client the other day and this this conversation happened where they mentioned that a key executive of the organisation that they work with, they were at a leadership conference conference and this particular executive was like I don't want to talk about work life balance, I want to talk about work life blending. And this particular executive mentioned that even while they're on vacation, they made sure that they took an hour a day to look at their emails this way. They felt that they continued to be in the loop and also didn't feel the stress of having to play catch up when they came back after their vacation.Speaker 1 (00:53)So any organisation that mentions work life blending should be a huge screaming red flag. Work life blending to the point where you are always thinking about work unless you're like you're a founder, I get that, but you're just a director of an organisat

Hello and welcome to the the the Traveling introvert goingto talk about workaholics. And the reason I want to talk about workaholics isbecause so many of us come and live in a workaholic environment. And we mightnot think about it, but you probably grew up or working in a workaholic cultureor maybe a family or even your business that you've almost self imposed onyourself that you are now a workaholic. And what do I mean by a workaholic? Andmy question to you would be when was the last time you left work on time?When was the last time you didn't take your laptop onvacation with you? When was the last time you didn't have your work emails onyour phone and then you were checking every time there was a ping? It is soeasy these days with the expected 24 hours access and people expecting you torespond very quickly, that we become workaholics. And for introverts it's evenworse because part of that workaholic culture means that you do not havedowntime or recharge time or creative brain time or just time to help preve

Hello and welcome to the travelling introvert. I'm going todo a travel episode. It's been a while, there's some less travelling going on,but I want to talk about cruise ships. I have being on one, I'm contemplatinggoing on another and I have many people asking me and I see a lot of videosalso going on about well, the extroverted people will want to do all thepartying and the introverted people, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blahand generally not covering the information that you want about cruises. What Iwill say is that most cruise lines do what is called sort of traditionaldining, where you are sat at the same table every night with random humans.If that is not something that you are into for variousreasons. I recommend NCL because you can eat at any time and anywhere and orvirgin except for the Korean barbecue place because you can go and eat when youwant. Where you want and you are not forced to sit and socialise with completestrangers who you may or may not like for the duration of your cruise. One

Hello and welcome to the not so travelling introvert. TodayI'm going to talk about dealing with difficult people or more to the point, howto tips for dealing with difficult people. No matter where you go in the worldworld you will find difficult people and difficult to you might be what's notdifficult. For me, difficult can mean various things and while we go out in theworld and maybe we socialise and socialising is a beneficial activity that mostpeople look forward to, it can also come with a lot of stress as there are manydifficult people that you have to deal with out there in the world. Just aboutanything you do will require dealing with humans and some of those humans willbe difficult at some point from colleagues at work to the people you cross onthe way.While fulfilling simple everyday errands like groceryshopping. Dealing with difficult people is frustrating, stressful and can bedownright eggsofting, so there are things that you can do to help deal withthem. And so I want to talk about six tips on how

Hello and welcome to the Travelling introvert. So I recentlydid an episode on why inspiration is so important and I got messages asking, soit's important, how do I go about finding inspiration? So here you go. I'mgoing to talk about about ways that might help you find inspiration when youneed it. And the importance, as I said before, of inspiration cannot beunderstated.Inspiration spurs creativity and it is a driving forcebehind any artistic endeavour. Without inspiration, we would not have thebeautiful things we have that fill our lives with joy and happiness. And whilethere are different ways to find inspiration in life, it can be difficult topinpoint exactly what works for you or for the type of inspiration that youneed, because you might find you need different types of inspiration fordifferent things. And that's okay. Because of this, it's really crucial toexperiment with different avenues until you find something that suits yourneeds and helps you with what you need to do.Look for inspiration in your ev

Hello and welcome to the not so travelling Introvert. TodayI want to talk about inspiration. Every now and then I get asked about whoinspires me, why do I do the things that I do? And to be honest, I don't have aspecific, specific person in mind. There's not someone I want to be or someoneI admire per se.And maybe it's because I don't really understand the admirepart. I don't know. But inspiration is different as far as how I findinspiration to do the things that I do, or for new podcast episodes, forexample, or a cross stitch pattern or whatever it might be. Inspiration happensall the time in everyday life. But sometimes we get so bogged down in the grindof stuff and just getting through each day, you know, go to work, eat, comehome, eat, sleep, repeat that we lose the access to avenues for inspiration.And that can be a bad thing. Finding inspiration can be thekey to success in any area of your life. It can help you develop new ideas,overcome challenges and stay motivated. And if you don't have a way of look

Hello and welcome to the Travelling Introvert. Want to talkabout guilt? Guilt comes up a lot in many different ways and one of the thingsI found is it is a real driving force to what people do and why they do it. Andguilt guilt can come up in many ways that can be detrimental but.Also can be helpful. But a lot of it is cultural.And what you've been taught to do. And if you're a peoplepleaser, this is a huge thing. It's not necessarily about pleasing people, it'sthe guilt involved if you don't. So, are you guilty for no reason? Guilt is afeeling that everyone experiences at one time or another and that is fine. Itis an emotion that tells you that you've done something wrong. But while guiltis a normal and healthy emotion, there may be times where you end up feelingguilty for no reason. And this type of guilt is known as irrational guilt andis often the result of irrational thinking. And what this means is that you arethinking about something in a way that's not based on reality. The thoughts youare having are

Hello and welcome to the the Travelling introvert going to talk about self understanding and the reason this has come up is because there's a common thread throughout of the questions that you see online or through things that my clients ask me and a lot of it comes down to self understanding. And so I want to talk about why self understanding is important. Self understanding is the ability to understand who you are, what you want to do and what you need to be able to do that. It's the ability to understand your personality, how your mind works, how your body works and how your personality and how it functions. It's examining understanding and comprehending your own thoughts, feelings and motives along with figuring out how your body best works. And you might think that this is a simple thing but the truth is most people experience a lot of external pressure and outside interference when growing up both at home and in society with families, when you're at school, when you're at university and jobs. And this

Hello and welcome to the Travelling Introvert. Going to talk about quarterly planning. And the reason I'm doing this is because it's come up a lot both on social media plus with clients that I've spoken to. And one thing that I'm hearing resounding against and again is that why is quarterly planning the norm? A lot of people in different organisations find that they do quarterly planning. The quarter starts and then halfway through the quarter they have to start planning the next quarter. And so their mind is never really on what they're supposed to be accomplishing this quarter because they're desperately sort of thinking about what the next goal is rather than concentrating on achieving the first goal that they had set. And that's really interesting along with the fact that. Okay. Financials tend to be quarterly and business tend to be quarterly. But does it have to be a set quarter when people are thinking about. For example. Right now. If you listen to this episode in time. It is Q Four and it's con

Hello and welcome to the the the travelling introvert want to talk about some habits that a lot of introverts might have. And to be honest, most of the time they are misunderstood. Like most things about introverts, there's a lot of misinformation out there or people make assumptions about things. For example, if you work in an office you might want to have lunch by yourself and your coworkers might see you as being unfriendly or not being part of the team because you wish to recharge by having lunch by yourself. Yet I know so many introverts tell me about how they go in their car to eat lunch or go in their car and drive around the corner so people don't come and knock on their window in the car. I myself used to go and sleep in my friend's car to start with. I used to work very close to where I lived so I would walk home, nap and go back to work. I'd even feel better off not eating food because I napped. And then when I worked a little further away, I would actually ask to borrow my friends car keys becau

Hello and welcome to  The Traveling Introvert want to talk about public Speaking speaking skills, presentation skills. So many times I hear people who are introverts say that they don't like public speaking speaking because they're introverts. And it's really interesting to hear that because then it kind of perpetuates the myth that introverts can't do public speaking, which is not the case. What tends to be the case is that there are some levels of anxiety, of fear, of nervousness around public speaking and possibly just not even knowing the right tools that you might need to channel your anxiety or how to calm down or just being confident in what you're saying that makes you think that it's because of your introversion. But as we all know, introversion is about how you channel and use your energy, right? So I want to talk about ways to channel your anxiety, if you do have that, and how to improve your public speaking skills. Now, there is no public speaker in the world that hasn't felt nervous, some

The word introvert has a lot of myths and misconceptions about it. In this episode I talk about the real meaning of the word "introvert" Hello and welcome to the travelling introvert. Today I want to talk about how about the word introvert? Introvert is a word to explain how you manage your energy levels. However, when you go and look at a dictionary, like dictionary.com says a person who prefers calm environments, limits social engagement or embraces a greater than average preference for solitude, that sounds great, but then when you go and look at thesaurus.com, it's synonyms for introverts. It's got observer, okay, homebody, solitary, loner and wallflower. And those aren't necessarily true. In a world that is constantly moving, it can be really easy to forget the importance of taking time for yourself and for us introverts, that is especially true. It doesn't mean that you're shy or antisocial. Of course you can be both. But in the pure sense of the word introvert, it means that you manage your energy

Hello and welcome to the travelling introvert. Today I'm going to talk about the fact that you don't need a mentor, you need a champion. And there is a huge difference. Mentors and champions are two important figures in the professional world. Both offer guidance and support, but there are key differences between the two.   And so many times I hear people saying they need a mentor and expecting that to come for free, which is a whole other conversation. Mentors are typically more experienced professionals who take on a protégé to help them develop their skills and knowledge. That mentor protégé relationship is built on trust and mutual respect and the mentor provides advice and feedback to help their protégé grow. Champions, on the other hand, are advocates for someone or something within an organization. They use their influence to promote their protégé or project within the company.   And they work to ensure that that person has the resources they need to be successful. They already know tha