Setting Personal Goals: Be Grateful Every Day
Achieving your goals is not a foregone conclusion. There will be surprises along the way - both ‘good’ and ‘bad’. And even the ‘bad’ can be ‘good’ if …
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Setting Personal Goals: Lay Out a Path to Your Future
This step is where you begin to set your goals – from a place where you have clearly identified what you want and where you have reconciled with your …
Continue ReadingSetting Personal Goals: Reconcile With the Past
Have you ever set a goal – for the 2nd…or 3rd…or nth time!? How frustrating! Obviously, something is holding you back…or you really don’t want it very …
Continue ReadingSetting Personal Goals: Write Down What You Want
Writing down what you want may seem like an obvious step in goal setting. However, it’s only a first step – and it’s often the one and only step for …
Continue ReadingCareer Development: Stage of Career
Are you at the very beginning of your career - or in the later stages? In the former case, you need to think more about where you want to be than …
Continue ReadingCareer Development: Aptitude and Personality Testing
It can be helpful to take some various tests that can give you some insights about yourself - and about other people with whom you might work – and …
Continue ReadingCareer Development: Hard Skills and Soft Skills
Preference for hard skills versus soft skills is a key career development consideration. Hard skills, where there is definite knowledge and expertise, …
Continue ReadingCareer Development: Highly or Loosely Structured Approach
You may prefer a more structured environment…or a more loosely structured environment. It’s a personal preference, and in all likelihood any …
Continue ReadingEmployees Get Chipped: Embedding Microchips
For medical reasons, implantable technologies such as a pacemaker, help to regulate someone’s heart. Other implanted functions have been used to help …
Continue ReadingSenior Citizens: Going Back to College
Have you already logged your time in the workaday world? Maybe you just want to be intellectually stimulated. If you are digitally savvy or have lots …
Continue ReadingBenefits of Exercising Creativity
One of the more common themes in Deepak Chopra’s book, Super Brain, is this: Use your brain, don’t let your brain use you. If you’re confused, that’s …
Continue ReadingFreestyle Rap and Your Brain: Surprising Benefits
When you listen to artists like Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, or Common, just the thought of freestyle rap might be intimidating enough to make you shy away. …
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