A while back, I wrote about the science-backed key to achieving your goals--to resist the human tendency to throw in the towel too soon when we fail to achieve an interim … [Read more...]
This Simple Method Will Help You Achieve More
It’s based on a long-standing performance theory
It’s a never-ending quest, this pursuit of achievement. The striving to do more, be more. There’s a pervasive sense of unease when you feel like you’re not moving things forward in … [Read more...]
Avoid Making These 3 Choices and a Happier Life Lies Ahead of You (I Speak from Experience)
With awareness comes better decision making
Happiness and success come from choices. You do the best you can to make the right ones along the way but so many things can distract or derail you. Some … [Read more...]
7 Signs You’re Leading From a Place of Fear
You might be leading from a place of fear and not even realize it
So much of what we do in life is born out of love, or fear. The latter never shapes an outcome good for anybody. Perhaps you're already working to overcome your own fears, like … [Read more...]
These 6 Words Will Help You Overcome Any Failure (They Did For Me)
Failure is an option, actually. Especially when you handle it with this powerful phrase
The occasional failure, even an #epicfail, is an inescapable part of life. But do you escape from the doldrums that envelop so many of us thereafter? I'm not talking … [Read more...]
After 30 Years, I Chose Joy Over Money in My Work. Then Something Unexpected Happened
It took me three decades to discover this--learn from my oversight
I spent three decades in the corporate world, for the most part really liking what I did. But if I'm being 100 percent honest, toward the end of my time in corporate, a … [Read more...]
10 Years From Now You’ll See These 5 Common Concerns Just Didn’t Matter
Reprioritize what you spend your time thinking about, starting with deprioritizing these unhelpful thoughts.
We all have plenty enough to worry about at work and in life. It'd be a naïve approach for me to tell you "Don't worry, be happy." But I do think there's … [Read more...]
The Top 7 Career Risks People Don’t Regret Taking, According to a Recent Survey of 1,000 Executives
Learn from those who went before you and note which risks could be worth it.
We get one shot in life at navigating our career. After the long winding road, no one wants to look back with regrets. Why not improve the odds of making more good … [Read more...]
4 Signs You Should Move On from that Goal, Idea, or Project
It can be hard to move on from a project, idea, or goal. Here's a simple process to help you decide if it's time.
A few years ago, I wrote about the science-backed key to achieving your goals–to resist the human tendency to throw in the towel too soon when we fail to achieve an interim … [Read more...]
Does Your Company Have a Toxic Culture? It Does if These 5 Unspoken Rules are Present
There are enough rules to worry about at work; we shouldn't have to sweat the unwritten ones, too. But if left unaddressed, they'll tank the culture.
The fact that toxic workplaces are the fifth leading cause of death may not be overtly known by leaders, but many are starting to at least intuit that such a culture … [Read more...]
