Resilience Definition – 3 Tips

Resilience is a critical soft skill essential to career success and work happiness.  Professor Rao defines resilience as the “ability to recover fast from adversity.”  I agree.   We may not talk about resilience often in the context of career success as we typically expect work /life to treat us fairly. My recent experience reminded [...]

Ignore Your “If Only” Thoughts

Do you ever notice that we all have “if only” excuses that keep us from doing the things we want or pursuing our dreams.   For example, If only I had more time … If only I had more money … If only I had technical skills …. If only I got my MBA … [...]

Overwhelmed at Work? Six Practical Solutions

Feeling overwhelmed at work sucks – you feel stressed, tired; your mind is racing with 1000 thoughts but limited clarity; and you can’t sleep well at night as your mind is constantly worrying about how to get it all done and what happens if you don’t.   Sound familiar? I know the feeling well.  Being [...]

Forgive and Forget – Key to Career Success

I had a real scare yesterday.  My 3 year old daughter, Isabel, lost her balance and fell from 8-feet-high rope ladder head first.  I was a few steps away, screamed, but couldn’t reach her in time.  She hit the dirt on the side of her head and right cheek.  Luckily, her head does not seem [...]

Believe in Yourself – You are “Beautiful”

This post is not about external appearances.  This post is inspired by a recent show I saw onVH1 called Storytellers: Christina Aguilera.  It’s in a format where a singer both sings to a small group but also talks to the group about herself, her music, and her inspirations.  Christina’s story about her song “Beautiful” really [...]

Resilience – Fall Seven Times, Stand up Eight

A good friend (thanks Jamie) forwarded this video to me and I thought it’s fitting to share it here. More than half of the battle in job search is actually the emotional aspect – thinking positive, staying in action, keep “standing up” even if you feel “knocked down” by the lack of results from your [...]