Dealing with Family Who Don’t Support Your Career Choices: 4 Tips
With the holidays around the corner, dinner table conversations about work are bound to come up. It’s common to feel anxiety at the thought of explaining what you do for a living to a skeptical audience, especially when your job title can’t be summed up simply or straightforwardly. Don’t panic yet. It may seem difficult to […]
Science Says THIS Is The Best Time of Day to Make Decisions
Producing high-quality work day after day is no small feat. When you use your brain on perpetual overdrive, you’re bound to hit productivity slumps where it feels like you’re fresh out of new ideas. While there’s no shortage of tricks and tips to hack your way to more innovative thinking, timing is everything, says sleep doctor Dr. Micheal Breus, author of The […]
3 Red Flags You Need Better Boundaries at Work (And How To Set Them)
Do you know anybody who’s running on the vicious hamster wheel of career dissatisfaction? Maybe it’s you. Maybe it’s your partner or a family member. A few years ago I was that person. And so was my friend Scott Barlow. Stress used to wake up Scott up at night. He’d worry about all the things […]
How to Change Negative Thoughts That Limit Your Success
Why do some of the most intelligent people sabotage their own success? It all goes back to having unconscious, everyday negative thoughts, also called cognitive distortions, first identified by psychologist Aaron Beck and Dr. David Burns. It’s typical to fall into these irrational thoughts every now and then. Mindset missteps are common among even the […]
5 Signs You’re Making The Wrong Career Move
Most of the choices we make every day are simple and straight-forward: what to wear to work, what to eat for lunch, whether to go to sleep at a reasonable hour or stay up watching Netflix. They don’t cause much stress or inner conflict. Career transition points, on the other hand, can leave you feeling […]
Train Your Brain to Be More Positive — Here’s How
The entrepreneurs I work with tend to have a few things in common: they are smart, ambitious, and highly motivated. Most of them are also stressed to the max. From the outside, they appear powerful and poised. But on the inside, they worry about their ability to deal with the demands that come along with […]
