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Jay Ashcroft

Feb 83 min read

Burnout. What is it And How Can You Avoid it? (Or accept it)

It’s inevitable. We all get it, none of us want it – but it comes, no matter what. Or does it? Now, as someone who’s gone through burnout...

Jay Ashcroft

Feb 64 min read

The Power of Pushing Through: Overcoming Challenges with Resilience

We all have bad days – sometimes we just wake up and we are not feeling it at all. So what do you do? Do you take the day off? Do you lie...

Jay Ashcroft

Feb 23 min read

The Dunning Kruger Effect: What it is, and How We Can Use It To our Benefit

Everyone is great at that one thing, when they first start. And I mean, great. It’s been measured time and time again across an infinite...

Jay Ashcroft

Jan 294 min read

How To Win Friends and Influence People Explained – The Part About Praise Instead of Criticism

I’m sitting as a passenger in my mentor’s truck – we’re heading to a wedding back in my hometown. He takes a drag off his cigarette and...

Jay Ashcroft

Jan 276 min read

What Should My Career Be? Looking to Your Childhood To Understand What Defines You

A career is a funny thing. What the hell is it? I suppose my definition of a career falls somewhere along the lines of that thing that...

Jay Ashcroft

Jan 235 min read

Is it Healthy to Look Back? Why I Believe it is – And Why it Catapults You Forward: Dissecting a Steve Jobs Quote

I heard a quote the other day, and to be honest I’m really surprised that it’s the first time I’ve heard it. Here it is: “You can’t...

Jay Ashcroft

Jan 137 min read

On Meditation. What is it, and Why Should You do it?

This is, and always has been, a touchy subject. So touchy in fact, that when I do it, I tell my significant other that “I’m going to g...

Jay Ashcroft

Dec 20, 20233 min read

Does Journaling Work? What I Learned From 730 Days of Daily Writing

There aren’t many habits that have been consistently in my life for 2 years – well except maybe smoking cigarettes, a nasty little...

Jay Ashcroft

Dec 8, 20236 min read

What I Learned From Joining The 5am Club - Here’s What it Got Wrong. Calling Out Robin Sharma

Despite the seemingly aggressive title, I would like to state for the record that the 5am Club changed my life. Robin Sharma is a genius,...

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