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Globe and Mail
12 hours ago
- General
- Globe and Mail
Your daily horoscope: June 20, 2025
You will achieve much more over the coming year if you resist the urge to be imperious and take a more democratic approach to decision-making both at home and at work. You know a lot but you cannot possibly know everything, so listen to advice. Set your own goals today and don't let anyone talk you into lowering them to a level that is too easy for you. As an Aries you like to be challenged because it allows you to show what you can do – and prove you are better than your rivals. A new cycle is about to begin and the good news is it will be one in which you get the chance to expand your outlook on life and reach for objectives you previously believed were beyond you. Set your sights high, then keep going higher. The stresses and strains of everyday living have taken their toll in recent weeks, so promise yourself that you won't do anything too challenging today and over the weekend. Even a livewire Gemini needs to slow things down once in a while. You found it hard to get your own way in recent weeks but as the sun is about to move into your sign opposition to your plans will fade and friends and colleagues will actually be supportive for a change. You have much to look forward to. You may think you have to work harder than ever to earn the respect of partners and colleagues but that isn't true at all. Most of them already think you are wonderful, so sit back and enjoy the well-deserved adulation. The sun's change of signs tomorrow means you will find it remarkably easy to win others round to your way of thinking and acting. With Jupiter and Mars on your side as well you are going to be doing great things over the next few weeks. When dealing with official matters of any kind today you must check the small print carefully, because if you miss something important others won't be inclined to give you a second bite at the cherry. Aim to get it right the first time. A wonderful new phase is about to begin, so strap yourself in and get ready for the ride of your life! With the sun, Mars and Jupiter all on your side there really is no limit to what you can accomplish. Love is in the air as well. By all means aim high today and over the weekend but don't set yourself the kind of targets that even a Sagittarius might struggle to reach. If you fail to remind yourself that you are human now an unexpected event will remind you later on. With so much cosmic activity taking place in the opposite half of your chart you have to accept that in most situations you won't be calling the shots. The good news is you don't have to as those making the decisions are very much on your side. If you find yourself at odds with someone you live or work with today don't turn it into a battle of wills or the sort of winner-takes-all situation that inevitably leaves one side feeling unhappy. Focus on areas where you still mainly agree. With the sun about to move into the most dynamic and creative area of your chart all your senses will be on alert and all your dreams will start to come true. Once you realize you can do no wrong you will want to do everything. Discover more about yourself at
BBC News
a day ago
- Sport
- BBC News
'I accidently headbutted my nan celebrating' - The Devils Advocate 🎧
This week on the Devils' Advocate podcast from BBC Radio Manchester, Gaz Drinkwater and Joe McGrath discuss the greatest goals they have ever seen at Old Trafford."In terms of a goal that means a lot to me, when they opened Old Trafford after Covid for the first time and there was 30,000 people there, I went with my nan," said Gaz."Cavani scored a goal from the halfway line and put it over the goalkeeper. That always has a special part in my heart just because I was there."Another one involving my gran really, was Scott McTominay against Manchester City [in the final game before Covid]. I accidentally headbutted my nan whilst celebrating."Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds
Forbes
2 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Resilience Is Not A Birthright
Getty - Resilience I don't know about you, but I tend to believe that the term "resilience" has become misplaced. It's tossed around as though it's an innate trait, something leaders are either born with or somehow earn through adversity. But author Mandy Gill disagrees. In her new book, Reset with Resilience: A Guide to Greatness When Your Goals Go Sideways, she makes it plain: resilience is not a birthright. It is learned, and for most people—especially in the modern workplace—it has gone untrained for too long. Gill isn't theorizing from the sidelines. She's built her credibility the hard way: as a broadcaster, wellness tech entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and ultra-endurance athlete. Over the last three years alone, she has run over 6,000 miles and climbed nearly one million feet of elevation. But it's not her stamina that matters. For Gill, it's her strategic honesty about what derails progress, both personally and professionally. In most workplaces, goals are sacrosanct. There are annual performance objectives, quarterly KPIs, and stretch targets, and a good portion of the time, they are all dressed up as inspiration. But the hidden truth is that almost no one is trained to navigate what happens when things fall apart. Gill deliberately avoided writing a book that celebrates goal setting. Instead, she wrote a book about what happens when goals go sideways. 'When things start to go sideways, we don't talk about it,' Gill told me. 'If I had quit everything that went off track in my life, I wouldn't be here today. But there are ways to get back on course, and sometimes, it's not the original course, but it's somewhere close, or even better.' That pragmatism is what defines her framework. The book unfolds in three parts: It's refreshingly devoid of cliché. There are no hollow calls to bounce back. Instead, there is an insistence on planning, structure, and situational awareness. She frames this as 'resistance,' which is the moment you feel something is off but plow ahead anyway. For Gill, resilience begins when you acknowledge that resistance instead of muscling through it. Gill's thinking on resilience is rooted in practice. Her company's wellness app, Hooked on Healthy Habits, gave her access to one of the largest private data sets on human behavioral triggers. Among the most important findings was the role of distraction in sabotaging progress. She distilled her coaching into a deceptively simple model: Catch it. Check it. Change it. 'It sounds basic,' she admitted, 'but that three-step idea changed more lives than I ever expected. Because people could actually do it. They caught themselves in the act of veering off track. And they learned to check the pattern and then make a conscious choice.' In her survey of over 1,000 users, 74% admitted that at least one distraction derailed their progress daily for a month. That aligns with BetterUp's findings: employees with higher resilience are 31% more productive and experience far lower burnout compared to less resilient counterparts. Gill's point isn't just about noise, it's about agency. Resilience does not require superhuman focus. It doesn't mean you have to walk through fire. It requires self-awareness, a structured plan, and the discipline to follow through when motivation evaporates. 'Proper planning beats poor performance,' she said, invoking the mantra she uses with teams. Her ultramarathon training follows the same principle. 'There is no winging it. You break it down, reverse-engineer it, and hold yourself accountable.' Gill described a unique moment in both our lives in 2022, when, as emcee, she welcomed me to a keynote stage just hours after completing a 62-mile race with over 20,000 feet of vertical gain. The point wasn't the race. It was the preparation. She had mapped out every detail of the week—nutrition, recovery, schedule—so she could deliver on stage, as a host and moderator, the next morning. It wasn't motivational. It was operational. Again, catch it, check it, change it. Mandy Gill One of the most critical points Gill raises is that resilience isn't purely individual. Without structural support—mentorship, culture, clarity—even the most disciplined employees will falter. Research from the Resilience Institute finds that structured resilience programs deliver an average 4:1 return on investment. For every $1 spent, organizations recoup $4 in improved productivity, reduced turnover, and lower burnout. Gill brought up a story about a construction firm in Toronto where 30-year veterans were retiring en masse, with no mentorship protocols in place. 'If that wisdom doesn't get passed down,' she said, 'the whole culture goes with them.' Gill advocates for strategic mentorship not merely as a side benefit but as a safeguard for resilience. When institutional memory fades without proper transfer, the outcome is entropy. Young professionals are left to reconstruct knowledge that could have been preserved if only someone had the time or courage to speak up and share it. 'If you can't get a mentor, research them,' she added. 'Go deep. Friday night, spend the time and look them up. Learn from them even if they're not available to you in person.' The risk of losing wisdom—especially in an age where knowledge work is increasingly fragmented—is a direct hit to team resilience. We are not designed to operate in silos, nor should we expect people to develop resilience in isolation. Resilience does not have to be an overcomplicated act of leadership. Nor should you assume it to be an overblown ideology for the weak. It is, as Gill points out, a learned skill that just might be a hidden superpower. \ Watch the full interview with Mandy Gill and Dan Pontefract on the Leadership NOW program below, or listen to it on your favorite podcast.
Globe and Mail
5 days ago
- General
- Globe and Mail
Your lookahead horoscope: June 15, 2025
Challenges will come thick and fast over the coming year but don't complain. What is happening is that the universe wants you to understand that you are capable of so much more. Giving anything less than 100 per cent is not good enough. Take care not to bruise any egos as the new week begins, because the very last thing you need now is to create enemies. Accept that some people can be surprisingly thin-skinned and tone down your tendency to ridicule them. As Mars moves into the most dynamic area of your chart over the next few days you will be brimming with energy and confidence. That's great, but don't come on too strong and scare away people who should be your closest partners and allies. The message of the stars for the coming week is that if you fear the worst you will make the worst more likely to happen. Your mind is a powerful tool and, depending on where you choose to direct it, can bring either pleasure or pain. At some point this week you will realize that life is unfolding according to a plan of universal significance. It doesn't have to be a mystical realization but it will bring a sense of assurance that you are and always will be in safe cosmic hands. It will become apparent over the next few days that someone you have been working alongside for several months no longer shares your vision or your goals. Clearly a break is needed and with Mars leaving your sign it won't be difficult to make. You are in no mood to be messed about and anyone who tries to give you the runaround this week will soon be running away from you in fright! With Mars moving through your sign from Tuesday onward you will fear nothing and no one. If something doesn't feel right over the next few days you must stop what you are working on and do your utmost to find out what it is. The very last thing you need is a feeling of impending doom hanging over your every move. You will need to be ruthlessly honest over the coming week, not only with other people but with yourself as well. You won't get to the root of a problem if you gloss over it or try to pretend there isn't really a problem at all. Mars moves into the career area of your chart this week, which will bring both challenges and opportunities. Without a doubt the two are intimately linked and every challenge you face with courage and confidence will bring good fortune. You may be serious by nature but over the next few days you will be a lot less inclined to get uptight about events that would previously have annoyed or alarmed you. Remind yourself often that life is supposed to be fun – and it will be. Is life a series of random events or is there some sort of design behind it all? Even with your scientific mindset you will find it easy to believe that your existence has meaning. Now all you have to do is work out what it is! The more others press you to take on more commitments the louder you must say 'No'. With Mars moving into the partnership area of your chart this week even friends and family members will encourage you to work harder – for their benefit too of course. Discover more about yourself at
The Independent
13-06-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Why you should do a mid-year review of your finances
As the year inches closer to it's halfway point, many of us may find ourselves swept up in the demands of everyday life. With so much going on, it's easy to let financial check-ins slip down the priority list, however setting aside time for a mid-year financial review could be one of the most valuable steps you take all year. We spoke with Liz Colfer, director and chartered financial planner at wealth management firm Five Wealth, who offered valuable insights into how a mid-year financial check-in can help you monitor your progress and make smart adjustments before the year wraps up. She highlighted several key benefits of conducting a mid-year review, along with three essential questions to help steer the process… Helps you adapt to life changes Major life changes can happen at any time of the year. That's why the halfway point is a great opportunity to review your finances and adjust them to fit any new circumstances. ' People could have had a salary increase, might have moved house or might have moved to a different job and be looking at new pension schemes,' highlights Colfer. 'We're seeing a lot of clients at the moment coming out of fixed-term mortgages that they've had for a number of years and seeing the impact of those higher costs coming through. 'A mid-year review of your finances can help you adapt to these kind of life changes that happen throughout the year.' Gives you an opportunity to reassess your goals or create new ones 'It's a good time to think about what are you working towards and what those goals are,' says Colfer. 'Where are you now in terms of achieving those goals? If you're halfway through the year and you're not quite on track with where you want to be, a mid-year review gives you a bit of time to readjust. 'It helps ensure that you're being proactive, as opposed to leaving things until the end of the year.' Provides a good time to make use of any tax allowances 'From a financial planning perspective, another thing to look at would be tax allowances,' notes Colfer. 'Have you used your ISA allowance? If you've got cash reserves, the sooner you move money into an ISA in the tax year, the better. You don't want to wait until the end of the year. 'It's also a good time to think about using pension allowances and to make sure that your strategy is on track.' It could prompt you to start putting money aside for Christmas 'You don't want get to a large event like Christmas, and suddenly think, oh I've not quite got myself in the position I want to be in, and then spend the next 12 months repaying the debt that you got into at Christmas,' says Colfer. 'So, you could start putting money aside monthly in a high-interest savings account that's going to mature just in time to buy those presents and things that you want to do around Christmas.' Here are three questions to ask yourself at your mid-year review… 1) What have I achieved over the last six months? 'It's not always about focusing on what's coming, actually reviewing what you've achieved as well is vital,' says Colfer. 'I think it's easy for people to be quite hard and negative on themselves about finances, but when you take a step back and see what you've managed to achieve, it can be quite powerful.' 2) How close, or far off, am I to reaching my goals? 'Think about what your end-of-year goals are and then work out where you are and how far you are away from meeting these,' advises Colfer. 'Do you need to tweak what you're doing or are you quite comfortable?' 3) What trade-offs can I make? 'We talk a lot with clients about educated trade offs,' says Colfer. 'So, if you're not on track to meet a particular objective, what does that mean? And are you comfortable with that? What's the trade off? 'Do you want to take a step back and put more into savings to achieve that end goal, and are you willing to sacrifice things along the way? That's the thing with money and finance, every decision you make is a trade off of something. If you're going to save more, then you've got less to spend and you've got to make sure that you are comfortable with that.'
