January 11, 2019
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This is an open letter to anyone who judges their success – at work or at home – by comparing themselves to others. By the same token, it’s also an important reminder to myself of what’s important and what’s not.
September 7, 2018
As someone who has had both fantastic and terrible jobs in my career so far, I’ve learned to tell the difference between a healthy job and an unhealthy one. The unfortunate reality is that, if you work for a company, the chances are pretty good that you’ll one day find yourself in a stress-inducing position that’s bad for your health. Here are nine signs that can help you figure out whether that’s the case. (more…)
October 14, 2017
I was watching a TV show the other day, and on the show the main character was struggling with their job. They wanted to quit, citing a lack of motivation as their main reason. (more…)
June 7, 2017
There’s a rare slice of people out there that are doing exactly what they were born to do, and making money doing it. For those people, they’re working because that’s what they want to do. If they won a million bucks, they’d continue to do what they do.
If you’re like most people though, you work for some other reason. It’s a means to an end, not the end in and of itself. If you won a million bucks, you’d be gone. You’d quit your job to do… what, exactly? We’ve all got goals and dreams; what’s yours? (more…)