This is something that can be done under 30 minutes and tastes amazing! It is a penne pasta with portobello mushrooms and bacon in tomato four cheese sauce sprinkled with mozzarella cheese. You can switch it up, add more ingredients or change the kind of sauce you want to use, but this specific combination has…
Getting Energy Back
This year is starting rough. Let’s pretend I am ignorant and not following any news and updates and just hiding at home focusing on my own goals and development regardless of what’s going on outside. Even then it is really hard to stay positive or having energy to do things. People who also feel this…
Chocolate Mousse Desert
Looking for a quick Christmas desert that does not require baking, a lot of work or special ingredients? Look no further! *Drum roll* Meet the Chocolate Mousse! Yes, it is that good that it should be referred to only using capital letters. Light and rich at the same time, it will make any holiday night…
Best hot chocolate recipe
In the time of global pandemic, economic and environmental decline and also horrible November weather a simple cup of hot chocolate is the best way to put the crazy world on pause and enjoy a moment of joy. What you need for one cup: -one cup of milk -two-three table spoons of hot chocolate powder…
Why Baking Bread is Significant
Since COVID-19 hit, most of people in the world were literally forced to stay home for months. Soon social media was hit with one of the key trends of 2020 – baking bread at home. For months I was resistant to participate, first of all, because I am a terrible baker. My husband regularly asks…
How to Stop Dreaming and Start Doing
The answer to this is literally in the second half of the first sentence – just start doing. Where most of us get stuck is changing our daily habits and doing something new that may actually lead us to our goals or dreams. No, I will not focus on creating a new effective routine and…
How to Apply For Jobs and Get Results
Last summer I unexpectedly found myself with the strong need to find a new job. Luckily, I found a new job in two months, which is the shortest time frame for public sector jobs in project management/portfolio management sphere. Below are the steps I took and some lessons learned along the way. So what does…
How to be positive
Positivity is talked about a lot. Recently I was administering a survey for my team to see how they are coping with working from home for several months in light of the virus spread. One of the survey questions asked about stress management, and the most popular answer was “staying positive”. As great as it…
Unexpected good things during self-isolation
Just to give some context: I have been fortune enough to work from home since March 13th and I have not been sick yet (my workplace announced that everyone within our organization to work from home and Ontario to be in a state of emergency on that date). I am aware that my experience may…
Meeting New Year’s Resolutions
I heard on the radio that January 19th is the day when many of us give up on New Year’s resolutions. It is less than 3 weeks! This made me think about my own resolutions and ways of keeping them. To be honest, this year already started kind of rough for me – for the…
Rise and Lead: Personal and Professional Development 