lifestyle

Why Every Working Mum Should Try AI

It’s 9:47pm. The family has settled in their bedrooms, the dishwasher is humming, and I’m staring at my to-do list that somehow grew longer since breakfast. Here’s something that might surprise you: you’ve been getting help from artificial intelligence for years. It’s in the washing machine that adjusts to a heavy load, the spam filter guarding your inbox and the phone camera that recognises your child’s face. All of it is AI, working quietly in the background.

Plane
lifestyle, Wellbeing

The One Degree That Quietly Ruins Everything

When learning to fly, pilots learn the ‘1 in 60’ rule. It states that a 1-degree heading error puts them about 1 mile off course for every 60 miles flown. On a 3,000-mile transatlantic flight, that single degree lands you roughly 50 miles from where you meant to be, which can mean a different country. The surprising part is what speed does to that error: nothing good! Flying twice as fast doesn’t shrink the miss, it just gets you to the wrong place in half the time. Pilots schedule navigation checks by distance flown, not by clock time. The pilot sets the correction interval based on progress, since speed matters only after you align your heading.

Conversations
lifestyle

The Secret isn’t Being Interesting – It’s Being Curious

As a young girl, others frequently spoke over me. Maybe my sentences were too long and people lost patience. I wasn’t sure of the reason but it lowered my self-esteem a lot. I stopped sharing my inputs because I thought they weren’t interesting enough. That thought convinced me I was dumb. I believed I was not an interesting person. I withdrew from conversations, anxious that someone would cut me off. All I wanted to do was interact and participate but i couldn’t because I was suffering from low self-worth.

lifestyle

From Errands to Epiphanies: Transform Your Day with Dream Work

Ever feel like your day is chock full of errands, tasks, and meetings that it’s a waking nightmare? As a working mother who works full time, some problems are too big or complex to solve on the spot or on my own. Sometimes it’s an innermost fear or a mental block or just not something you want to share with others. But it doesn’t warrant seeing a doctor or a therapist about it just yet. What if the antidote to this problem, you’re stuck lies not in your waking life but in sleeping one – in your subconscious and your dreams.

Woman with dark curly hair stands out in a crowd, holding a large bouquet of bright yellow mimosa flowers.
lifestyle

How to Not Let Personal Identity Get Lost in Expectation: A Working Woman’s Truth

It was a rainy Sydney evening, the kind that makes staying in feel justified and stepping out feel like effort. I almost didn’t go.

But something in me insisted.

The roads were freshly wet, reflecting streaks of green and red from the ferry light bunting draped across the facade of the Sydney Town Hall. I walked up the slick steps, slightly hesitant, as volunteers in green t-shirts guided us into the vestibule of that Second Empire-style space.

Inside, it was anything but quiet.

A loud, warm hum filled the room. People gathered in clusters, holding drinks and small bowls of olives, their conversations buzzing with anticipation. Tweed caps, expensive shawls, polished boots; young and old, aspiring and accomplished – all gathered with a shared purpose I couldn’t quite name yet.

And I was alone.

Woman's face split between smiling and crying, representing feeling lonely even when surrounded by people
lifestyle

How to Overcome Loneliness Through Personal Growth

One of the most underexplored paths to overcoming loneliness lies not in our social calendars, but in personal growth- — but I believe it may be the most lasting one. In recent years, loneliness has emerged as a widespread global concern, with major surveys showing that a significant share of people report feeling lonelier, even as modern life becomes more connected on the surface. 2018Our World in Data’ notes that the share of adults living alone has risen in many countries, and in some places it now accounts for nearly half of households. The WHO says loneliness affects around 1 in 6 people worldwide.

Mother sits on a rug with a laptop, while a toddler plays with wooden blocks on a colorful mat by a large window overlooking city buildings.
lifestyle

I Thought Motherhood Set Me Back. I Was Wrong

I thought I had fallen behind.

Not in a dramatic, life-is-over kind of way but quietly. Life looked full from the outside but I realised the world had moved on and I was stationery.

My days were packed. Completely consumed. Feeding, cleaning, planning, worrying. Watching The Wiggles long after the kids had gone to sleep. Learning recipes I never cared about before. Living a life that was busy to the brim and yet, somehow, I felt strangely invisible.

While I was doing all of this, the world outside didn’t pause. It sped up. New ideas, new tools, new conversations. AI became a thing. Entire industries shifted. And I didn’t even see it happen.

I didn’t say it out loud, but I carried this quiet belief with me: I’ve fallen behind because I chose this life. What I couldn’t see then was this: I wasn’t falling behind. I was just measuring growth in a language the world doesn’t value openly.

×

Free Guide Inside 🎁

Best articles directly in your inbox

Scroll to Top