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Mastering the Inbox: 7 Actionable Tips to Beat Email Overload

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Nov 19, 2024

Mastering the Inbox: 7 Actionable Tips to Beat Email Overload

Feel like your inbox is burning a hole in your life? Email overload at work is real, so how can you effectively manage your email inbox to beat anxiety and increase productivity.

Seasonal Slowing: 5 Tips to Embrace Colder Months

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Nov 12, 2024

Seasonal Slowing: 5 Tips to Embrace Colder Months

It can be harder to stay motivated, and SAD can creep in during autumn and winter. But instead of fighting against the season, practicing ‘seasonal slowing’ can help you lean into the seasons and embrace the colder months.

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Are We Missing the Moment? The Impact of Taking So Many Photos

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Nov 5, 2024

Are We Missing the Moment? The Impact of Taking So Many Photos

How many photos do you have on your camera roll? Do you need them all to bank your memories, or is the action of taking photos impairing your memory?

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How to get into the habit of reading more (and scrolling less)

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Oct 29, 2024

How to get into the habit of reading more (and scrolling less)

Our reading habits have changed and tech is partly to blame. Here’s how to ditch the scroll and pick up reading again.

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How to Beat ‘Decision Fatigue’ and High Mental Load

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Oct 22, 2024

How to Beat ‘Decision Fatigue’ and High Mental Load

Feeling exhausted by the number of decisions you have to make a day? You might be suffering from decision fatigue.

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Oct 15, 2024

What is TikTok brain?

Can’t concentrate? Feel an invisible pull to your phone? “TikTok Brain” is a term used to describe how short form videos are ruining our ability to focus.

Digital Detoxing Health and wellbeing

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Oct 8, 2024

Why am I always so busy?

How did we get so busy? Because we’re working more, right? Actually no - we’re working less hours than previous decades, yet we feel constantly overwhelmed with work, plans and leisure. So why do we have this illusion of the ‘busy problem’?

Stress and anxiety Productivity Health and wellbeing

Simple self-care: why you should look after yourself like a child

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Oct 1, 2024

Simple self-care: why you should look after yourself like a child

With endless wellness trends and self-care commodities, it can be overwhelming to know what you should be doing to look after yourself. So take it back to basics and look after yourself like you would a child.

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Sep 24, 2024

How to make your own dopamine menu

Instead of scrolling when you’re bored, creating your own a dopamine menu can help you kick the habit of reaching for your phone.

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Digital Switching: Scrolling and App Hopping is Actually Making You More Bored

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Sep 17, 2024

Digital Switching: Scrolling and App Hopping is Actually Making You More Bored

App hopping and mindlessly scrolling to cure boredom? You might be making yourself more bored.

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Prescribing nature: It works “better than medicine” to boost happiness and wellbeing

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Sep 10, 2024

Prescribing nature: It works “better than medicine” to boost happiness and wellbeing

Study finds that ‘Green Social Prescribing’ works in combatting mental health and overall wellbeing and can be “better than medicine”.

Science Health and wellbeing

50 Afterwork Activities to Replenish Your Energy and Reduce Burnout

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Sep 3, 2024

50 Afterwork Activities to Replenish Your Energy and Reduce Burnout

Don’t wait for the weekend to do things that make you feel good. We’ve shortlisted 50 things you can incorporate into your weekly routine to help with work-life balance.

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Tait Miller: Taking the wilderness by the hand (+ Chicken Recipe)

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Aug 27, 2024

Tait Miller: Taking the wilderness by the hand (+ Chicken Recipe)

Meet Tait Miller, a wild chef that stayed at Olive for our Unplugged Residency.

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September Reset: Why we still feel “back-to-school” energy as adults

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Aug 27, 2024

September Reset: Why we still feel “back-to-school” energy as adults

September is a second ‘New Year’ for wellness and is filled with back-to-school energy. So how can you embrace the September reset and make the most of the last few months of the year?

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“Touch some grass”: 10 surprising benefits of nature

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Aug 20, 2024

“Touch some grass”: 10 surprising benefits of nature

What does that phrase “to touch some grass” actually mean? And 10 reasons why you should definitely do it.

Science Health and wellbeing

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Aug 9, 2024

20 little things that aren’t little

We spend a lot of our lives focusing on the big things, but sometimes it’s the small moments in life really make us happy. Here’s our take on 20 little things, that aren’t actually little.

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