Seven Ways a Personal Brand Can Help Your Career
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Heard of personal branding but not sure why you should bother? This article explain how branding yourself can help you move your career from good to great.
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The 20/200 Rule: A Rule To Increase Productivity
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Are your perfectionistic tendencies leaving you exhausted and overwhelmed? Here is a simple solution to help you manage your valuable time.
Read MoreA Simple Trick for Brilliant People
/Have you noticed that smart people can be really ineffective and stupid people can be surprisingly wise? Intelligence only gets you so far. And sometimes it actually makes navigating life’s challenges more difficult. My clients are brilliant. My friends are brilliant. I surround myself with clever, innovative and creative people. I have noticed that intelligent people generally want to use their brains to figure out solutions (preferably innovative and unique) even when their mothers told them the answers thirty years ago or when the directions are clearly written right in front of them.
Read MoreRelentless Positivity: Friend or Foe?
/Have you noticed that some “positive” people seem smarmy, condescending and basically you just want to punch them? Meanwhile, others are magnetic and just being around them makes you feel more joyful, connected and alive. Small children are almost always in this category. This article is my two cents on relentlessly positive attitudes and what people don’t tell you about the law of attraction. I often meet people who say things like, “it’s important to always be positive because then you attract good things into your life.” This worries me. I get the value of being positive AND there is something insidious about the “always.”
Read MorePracticing Gratitude
/We have a lot to be thankful for, and the more we focus on gratitude the happier and more peaceful we become. There are many tools and techniques you can use to focus on gratitude. This is one of my favorites.
Read MoreAre Vacations Overrated?
/A number of years ago I was horribly ill all by myself in a national park in China, where I didn’t see a single other foreigner for three days and couldn’t communicate with anyone. NOT fun! Am I the only one who gets myself into this sort of mess? I was taking to a friend recently who did not enjoy his vacation and was feeling like the only person in the world who doesn’t have fabulous holidays. Just as most human beings live under the illusion that everyone else is more emotionally secure, well-organized and has a better love life, similarly we tend to assume that others also have better vacations.
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