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Are you stuck? Do you want something badly at work (e.g., promotion, work life balance, better boss, challenging assignment) but somehow can’t seem to take any action toward making it happen? You are not alone. Inertia, the inability to do something different from our routine, happens to all of us. How do you do overcome it? Take this pain and pleasure challenge! ...
I started this tradition last year and really liked how it influenced my decisions and actions the rest of the year. I am doing it again this year to define my new year aspirations
1. Define ways to build new habits instead of setting goals. I found this is helping me evolve into a better human being. ...
Happy New Year! Sunday was my annual Hot Chocolate 15K race. My friend Agnes got me into it 3 years ago. It’s a great way to start off the year – a long run (9.4 miles) followed by a nice cup of hot chocolate and an amazing natural high all day.
Well, I didn’t go this year. I woke up at 6:30am and it was POURING. San Francisco had flood warning all weekend. While the race was still on (I couldn’t believe it), I have never ran in pouring rain before and couldn’t imagine being drenched for an hour and half. I was packed but at 7am I decided not to go. ...
Mastering soft skills is critical to your career advancement. Louis Johnston, one of our executive authors, agrees. He shared in this interview how mastering certain soft skills helped him skyrocket his career and quadruple his compensation.
Louis started as an Online Marketing Associate, 10 years ago. He has since been promoted to Manager, Director, Senior Director, and now Head of Growth. This may sound like a straight-forward success story. It is not. He didn’t just happen to become super successful by working hard or hitting all his marketing numbers. On the contrary, he was hitting his numbers, but not getting much credit for it. Louis was stuck at the same level for awhile. ...
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 ...
A friend shared this Youtube video with me and I literally cried. It talks about one stereotype that we all know about and how it affects us. It’s amazing how stereotypes are so common in our society. Sometimes people use it intentionally in their communication to put down other people out of insecurity and other times people use stereotypes in their conversations and don’t even realize it. ...
A month ago, my boss mentioned that everyone on our team is a “Pleaser Achiever”? I have been meaning to write about it ever since. So what is a “Pleaser Achiever”, you may ask? Well, let’s start with a simple quiz
If you say yes to most or all the questions above, then you are a “Pleaser Achiever.” Here are the common traits ...