“Anything worth doing is worth doing well.” “Give it your all.” “If you give 100% of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back.” It’s trite cliches like this that make us all cringe. But they wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t a kernel of truth to them. We’ve already…
We are all familiar with change. Even if we weren’t always comfortable with it, it was a necessary part of our professional lives. The motto of “Change (or adapt) or die” prevailed. If we didn’t we became obsolete. It is an even larger part of our personal lives. One of the biggest examples of this…
In my mind I’m still in my 20s. My body, however, disagrees with my mind. I’m no longer a spring chicken setting out to conquer the world. I still want to conquer it, but I’ve also gained a healthy dose of reality. That reality has come with age and experience. Not just my own, but…
Motivation. That extra kick that gets us in gear and propels us to do what needs to be done. Except when it doesn’t. When we can’t find that urge, that drive, to do what we need to do. It happens to all of us. Even the most driven of us. And when we find ourselves…
I don’t go onto social media very often. I loathe the ads that appear in my Facebook feed. And I never really learned how to effectively use my Instagram account. For whatever reason, I did look at Facebook this morning and I’m glad I did. The first post they came up wasn’t the typical ad…
Growing up, I did a lot of different things. Not just school. I was involved in everything. Sports, clubs, not to mention the social life. I was a pretty good student, did fairly well in sports. All in all, I was good at a lot of things. But as I grew older, the number of…
You are a displaced professional. Being displaced unemployment is not a choice. You want gainful employment and to run in the rat race we all complain about. Because yes, we did complain about it. And that’s just the start of where frustration comes in. We’re frustrated because we do not have a regular job. Of…
We all know that not everything in life is good for us. And when faced with these good vs. bad choices, the opportunity to say yes or no, the decision is easy. But sometime the answer isn’t always clear. Sometimes the opportunity presented may seem like a good choice when it really isn’t. Various opportunities…
The wonders of the The Great Outdoors are somewhat buried among John Candy’s and Dan Aykroyd’s bumbling antics in their cult-classic movie. The family fights against nature as the raccoons and bats terrorize them. Hiking turns into a disaster. And water skiing? Well, that was an adventure all on its own. There really is nothing…
Every day, or at least some days, you go through the routine. You check your favorite job board and apply for jobs – regardless of whether it is an opportunity you are interested in or not. And then you go through the usual rigmarole of no response, no thank yous, weeding out projects, and initial…
