Shivan's Sunday Newsletter

By Shivan Sivakumaran

Personal development, optometry, personal finance, health/wellbeing, lifestyle, finding fulfillment, and a whole lot more.

I plan to send a newsletter out every Sunday.

Previous issues

An important skill

#48 Jun 20, 2021

On public speaking

#47 Jun 13, 2021

Police interrogation and optometric history taking

#46 Jun 6, 2021

#45

May 30, 2021

Discovering what you actually do – Kia ora e hoa,Five years. That's how long it's been since I graduated from the University of Auckland
#44

May 23, 2021

Priorties – Kia ora e hoa,Sorry, no detailed newsletter this week. I've just had to priorities other objectives o
#43

May 16, 2021

Know your worth – Kia ora e hoaBeing a professional, one should have control over their time and what they do. As long
#42

May 9, 2021

Please don't ask me where I'm from – "Where are you from?... No seriously, where are you from?"Kia ora e hoa,A question I often get and ho
#41

May 2, 2021

What do you want to achieve? – Kia ora e hoa,Sharing goals demotivates. That's what some say. Despite this, I still want to share my
#40

Apr 25, 2021

Remember 🇳🇿 🇦🇺 – Kia ora e hoa,A short email to wish everyone a safe long weekend.Of course, today marks the recogniti
#39

Apr 18, 2021

🌿👁️ Eyes on cannabis #4b: Is it effective? – Kia Ora,Thank you for reaching the end. We are talking about Cannabis (Taru rauhae) as a possible tre
#38

Apr 11, 2021

Eyes on cannabis 🌿👁️ #4a: Cannabis and its legality – Kia Ora,We made it... kind of. I've split this final article into two since it became really long! Th
#37

Apr 4, 2021

Feeling bad this week – Kia ora koutou,Happy easter / Ka hari Aranga!I'm feeling bad this week. I promised to release the fin
#36

Mar 28, 2021

Eyes on cannabis #3: common glaucoma treatments – Kia ora e hoa ma,Can cannabis be used as a legitimate treatment for glaucoma?Before we answer this qu
#35

Mar 21, 2021

Eyes on cannabis #2: what is glaucoma? – Kia ora e hoa ma,So far, our goal has been to understand the role of cannabis in glaucoma. But before
#34

Mar 14, 2021

Eyes on cannabis #1: the eye basics – Kia ora e hoa,When you have colourful friends, an occupation like mine, combined with a late night di
#33

Mar 7, 2021

Do you take pride in what you do? – Kia ora,Inspirational Optometrist: First, do you take pride in what you do?Me: Ahh... I think I do...
#32

Feb 28, 2021

Turn people skills from weakness to strength – Tēnā koe,People skills. Social situations. I have to admit are not my strengths.Troubling for what I
#31

Feb 21, 2021

How passion is a career-killer – Kia Ora Friend,I'm ashamed. Whenever I get asked 'why did you become an optometrist?' I'd give an ela
#30

Feb 14, 2021

Habits lead to success – Kia Ora Friend,Happy Te Rā o Waitangi for last week. It's was also my 28th birthday yesterday, and ha
#29

Feb 7, 2021

3 TIPS to unblock your writing – Kia Ora Friend,A few days ago, I was pleasantly surprised when my close friend and reader of this new

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