Monday Musings 30 September: Does adulting feel like a constant car crash?

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Does your life ever feel like one giant, slow-motion car crash? Mine does. Regularly. But it turns out feeling like a totaled Toyota is pretty normal. Even healthy. According to a reel by Dr. Lisa Damour, the wellness industry has been low-key gaslighting us with this whole ‘achieve inner peace through scented candles and meditation’ […]

Monday Musings 10 June: You call it GNU, Belgium calls it spaghetti

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As a Belgian living in South Africa, watching the formation of South Africa’s first coalition is like a ‘Groundhog Day’ of epic proportions. You call it a ‘GNU’, in Belgium we call it a spaghetti government. It’s a tangled mess of policies and power struggles where even seasoned politicians end up with sauce on their […]

Monday Musings 22 April: All I need is 8 minutes… and a pineapple

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Today marks 207 weeks of writing the Monday Musings. That’s 1449 days of navigating the glorious chaos that life has been since the pandemic. How did it all start? As the Big Ambitions team, we wanted to inject some clarity, empathy, and humour in an upside-down world. (We even had a Monday Musing called: “Have […]

Monday Musings 28 August: Are you a hopeless mess? Or brilliantly creative?

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I wouldn’t immediately describe myself as a ‘hopeless mess’, but those who know me would say I can be a little ‘disorganised’ and ‘scatterbrained’. My desk is flooded with scraps of papers. At any given time, I have a thousand tabs open on my computer. And let’s not even start discussing the state of my […]