Stephanie Hardy – Writing from the Heart
Looking for hope, progress and ikigai in an increasingly volatile world
Tag: Ikigai
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The Definition of Success
It’s the end of August and a full year since I set up my blog. It’s felt like there have been a lot of topics to write about over the past month, but no time to write. It left me wondering if this is me ‘failing’ as a writer, particularly given previous posts about the… Read.
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Reflection, Diversity and Digital
“Just look at what a different place you’re in now compared to last year.” This comment last week made me pause and reflect. It came up in response to me working through some concerns right now, and it made me realise that perhaps I was missing the wood for the trees. This time last year,… Read.
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Fear and Failure
Fear can be paralysing, particularly fear of failure if you’re operating in a field where you’re seen to have experience. After a few conversations on this recently, I wanted to reflect on some ideas that will probably be familiar but we sometimes forget. Failing is essential to growth. If you don’t get things wrong, often… Read.
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Can ‘Busy’ be good?
I’ve been thinking recently about “ikigai” and its definition of “the happiness of a busy life”. This concept has been butting up against points articulated in an article by Anne Helen Petersen from January 2019 on “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation” – she reflects on the impact of the requirement to be constantly productive… Read.
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The Power of Writing
We’re in an era of telling our stories at the moment. From “Me too”, to “Black Lives Matters”, to “This is Me” and “It gets better”, we’re all using personal accounts to motivate change for the better. And it works because of how emotive those stories are: we can make the reader or listener feel… Read.
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Tyranny of the Should
2nd October was my dad’s birthday. He’d have been 68 had he lived but he died in 2005. He’d had early onset Alzheimer’s and died from complications. It was in learning about Alzheimer’s, both before and after he died, that I was introduced to the concept of the “Tyranny of the Should”. A quick google… Read.
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Ikigai
Ikigai is the Japanese concept concerned with ‘the happiness of always being busy’. It’s also been likened to ‘a reason for being’. I’m one of the those people who feel that they need a purpose in life. I sit in that camp where people are often accused of ‘living to work’ instead of ‘working to… Read.
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