At the end of your workday, do you ever feel like you could’ve done more? Maybe written more words. Completed more tasks. Or simply just did more work. And does it leave you feeling a little… incomplete? Like you’ve wasted your day? …Sound familiar? Well, it doesn’t have to be this way. You can leave … Read more
If you’re in the market for a job and spend a lot of time practicing your answers to common interview questions, you might find yourself laughing at what your “real” answer to a question may be versus what a solid, professional answer would look like. One of the questions that this probably happens with is… … Read more
Imagine you are at the end of a hard exercise routine, and you can hardly push your body to do any more work. Your muscles are suffering from fatigue, and you are ready to give up. Your physical abilities have been depleted. The same concept can be applied to your mental abilities! Specifically, a concept called decision … Read more
Do you know that sudden feeling you get when you are assigned a new project at work and you think you are in way over your head? Or when people around you are talking about their careers, and you feel quietly ashamed because you don’t think your success measures up? Maybe you beat yourself up … Read more
This article was provided by Scott Colby of Say It With Gratitude . Scott is on a mission to make everyone feel appreciated through the power of gratitude. He spreads his message to individuals and businesses with thank you cards, T-shirts and live experiences. To learn more, check out his free report, 29 Ways To Use … Read more
Have you ever heard this famous quote that’s often attributed to Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Or, put more simply: “Excellence is a habit.” Over the past two decades, the world of personal growth and development has seemed to grow exponentially. The Internet, technological … Read more
What are the routines or daily habits of successful people? This is one of the questions I tried to answer in my recent collaboration Rebecca Livermore, The Daily Entrepreneur. This is a big question, and an important one, for anyone trying to achieve success. In today’s post, fans of “The Daily Entrepreneur”, and those just … Read more
You know those moments when you glance at the clock and are instantly jolted into reality as you exclaim, “How is it 3:00 already?!” You’ve been busy getting things done, but the fact that you only have two more hours to wrap things up before going home to tend to your family or switching gears … Read more
Out of all of the standard job interview questions, one that is among my least favorite is, “Where do you see yourself in five years?” I understand that potential employers are looking for a goal-oriented person who is driven to progress in their career, but my knee-jerk response to this question is always, “I don’t even … Read more
I don’t think I considered myself to be especially “goal-oriented” until I started writing my goals down. And I didn’t start writing my goals down until I learned about SMART goals…so it hasn’t been too too long since I really started to focus on having firm goals and creating objectives to achieve them. In the most … Read more