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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.” ...
Are you worried about keeping your job? Is your company announcing layoffs? If so, you need to listen to the recording below.
It is my distinct pleasure to introduce a new Executive Author, Helena Light, to our site. Helena has been a friend and neighbor of mine for the last 10+ years. She is also the Partner and COO of a small start up company in the financial industry. She has over 30 years of experience, and is one of the most humble, personable executives I have ever met. I am truly blessed to have Helena in my life. ...
Achieving work life balance takes self-awareness, making tough choices, and being disciplined. As a recovering over-achiever and perfectionist, this is hard for me. My natural tendency with any job is to err on the side of working over-time and prioritizing my job above anything else. The only reason I was able to maintain a healthy work life balance for the last six years was by contracting instead of working as a full time employee. Being paid by the hour reminded me constantly to stay un-attached and avoid over-working. ...