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By David Werdiger | 1 min read

You don’t need more time. You need more balanced moments within the time you already have. My Power of Pause Toolkit ...

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5 Stages of Grief

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Society is grieving its relationship with social media. And like all grief, it’s moving through stages.   ...

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What Bondi Taught Me About Grief

By David Werdiger | 3 min read

The terrorist attack at Bondi Beach hit us all hard, and along the way taught me an important lesson about the power ...

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Tech Boundaries

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Technology makes life easier, but it rarely gives us our time back. Work follows us home, notifications interrupt res...

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Supersize Me

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Super Size Me showed us the cost of “more.” The same logic now drives endless scroll. More isn’t better.Sometimes the...

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Mindset Shifts

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Reclaiming your time starts with changing how you think about it. The Power of Pause Toolkit isn’t about doing less, ...

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Pressing pause: Why stepping away is the new measure of wealth

By David Werdiger | 9 min read

By Kristen Oliveri In a world that never stops scrolling, pinging, and demanding our attention, the most radical act ...

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Making The Pause Habit Stick

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

We all start the year with good intentions and new habits. But willpower fades and tech is designed to pull us back i...

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Unintended Consequences of Tech

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Everyone talks about Orwell when it comes to tech and control, but Aldous Huxley might’ve been more accurate. What st...

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Productivity culture runs like a hamster wheel. It just keeps running, at the same pace, going nowhere.

Do you manage your time like a hamster wheel or do you put a training program in place and find time to rest?

There's a scene in "Mad Men" where Don Draper is asked what he thought about Hawaii, and instead of talking about beaches, he talks about becoming someone else. Not a version of himself with better tan lines and a Mai Tai. A different person. One who, for a few days, didn't miss

I recently took one of the best holidays of my life, and I never left the resort.

Turns out the destination is beside the point. What you're actually chasing is a change of pace, and if your holiday runs on the same schedule as your working week, you've just moved the treadmill

We have strategies for our careers, our finance, our help.

Pleased to announce a program to help answer an important question: “what’s your strategy for your time?”

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