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I can’t stop watching this video. It just make me feel so good about life and people. My husband showed it to us a few weeks ago. Now my kids and I watch it almost every day and dance to it in pure joy.
So why am I share this on my career blog? Well, it made think about the true meaning of success and a challenge for all of you. ...
Lei: I am excited to introduce a new Executive Author to our Soft Skills Gym – Cindy Wong-Zarahn. I only met Cindy last year but feel like we have been old friends for years. She has close to 20 years of experience in the corporate world with plenty of battle scars as well as very sage advice. I already personally benefited from her advice for my own career. Click here to read her bio and why she wants to join our community. You can also follow Cindy on twitter @CZarahn ...
Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all had a great holiday or at least one that was better than mine. I can’t believe it’s 2015. Usually I love holidays as it gives me time to relax, regroup, and faced the new year with renewed energy. I didn’t have such luck this holiday season. Work was super stressful and I didn’t have as much time with the family as I would have liked. ...
This article on how to be 10% happier at work is inspired by reading a blog post Penelope Trunk wrote on How to Love the Job You Have – Focus on One Good Thing. It was a touching personal story and it sparked an epiphany in my mind – we often spend too much time focusing our thoughts and speech on what we don’t like about our jobs vs. what we do like. ...
A few months ago, I did a veggie and fruit cleanse for the first time in my life. Why? All the usual reasons
This article is less about the cleanse and more about what I learned during the experience. First of all, I actually didn’t expect to last four days. This is because I had some very strong pre-notions when it came to food and cleanses. ...
Why am I here on earth? What makes me truly happy in life? How do I find my passion? I don’t know about you, but I am asking myself these questions more and more often as I get older. There is so much societal pressure to make more money, get that promotion faster, and show off the fancy car/house we were able to buy. Yet, there always seems to be a disconnect between what we can achieve and our happiness. ...
Stanford Professor Carol Dweck developed this concept in her 2006 book – Mindset – The New Psychology for Success. In there, she provides the following Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset definitions:
“In a fixed mindset, students believe that their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that’s that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In a growth mindset, students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. They don’t necessarily think that everyone’s the same or anyone can be Einstein, but they that believe everyone can get smarter if they work at it.” ...