Change
Spring is a season of renewal and change. In many cultures, this season is celebrated with rites and festivals revolving around food production and the sowing of crops. Plants begin to grow anew after winter, and animals begin nesting activities. With spring also comes spring cleaning and other alterations. So, what causes people to want
Even Successful People Feel Anxious
Anxiety can be a normal human emotion. An anxiety disorder is more difficult and not an easily controlled condition, so we have to learn to manage it just the way one does dyslexia, colorblindness, or diabetes. It’s not like worrying, an emotion that we all experience at some point in our lives when faced with
Food and Flowers: What’s your personal brand?
Orchids are some the most highly coveted decorative plants due to their delicate, exotic, and graceful representations of love, luxury, beauty, and strength. In ancient Greece, the flowers were associated with virility. Greek women believed that if the father of their unborn child ate large orchid tubers that the baby would be a boy; if
Need a Career Coach?
As times change, so does the job market both for those without any type of work and those who are in jobs that are not their dream careers. According to recent data, about 30 million people are unemployed or underemployed in the United States. The U.S. Department of Labor statistic of 5.6% unemployment does not include
Is Appreciation an American Thing?
American workers have a strong desire to be appreciated and recognized, but is this a universal trend across the globe or unique to our culture? I am somewhat surprised that people feel the need to be recognized by their boss and are wishing for more appreciation. I hear this from men and women and wonder
Plodding wins the race
Getting started, with any major project in life, is always difficult, and sometimes we can feel like we are perpetually stuck in the tortoise-and-the-hare scenario. Everyone is afraid that they’ll never get there and are afraid that their plans won’t go well, so they don’t start. I’ve been in that position. In 2003, I filed a
What’s a Bucket Got to Do With It?
Have you ever seen the movie Bucket List starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson? If not, the flick is a quaint tear-jerker underscored by a motivational life lesson. Both protagonists discover that they are battling cancer and decide that they need to get out and experience life; they do so by composing bucket lists and
Work Life Balance is a Real Thing
Have you ever considered how your happiness at home affects your career? Or, on the flip side, how chaos in your life affects your chances for growth at work? Many managers believe that the elements of your personal life that “go wrong” tend to be the same characteristics or problems that you have at work,
Small Business Coaching Tips
Starting your own business is a great achievement for any entrepreneur, but maintaining that company can be challenging. Any business, big or small, faces difficulties, including hiring the right people or branding your image. Reid Hoffman, in his book The Alliance: Managing Talent in the NetworkAge, emphasizes the need for a realistic loyalty pact between employer
Time Management
Time management is taught, pushed as the way to be effective, and considered a factor in brainpower and will power. Focusing on eliminating the need for time management is perhaps a pie in the sky ideal, but can be a very simple and exciting way to work. Wikipedia defines time management in ways that includes creating
