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Do our brains want to work or win lotteries?
Do you work hard for your money? If, yes, then you get more satisfaction from your cash than Paris Hilton! I know it’s hard to believe but researchers who study the pleasure center of the brain say...
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Beating the Peter Principle
If you watch the popular TV comedy The Office, you may find it hard to believe that Michael Scott–branch manager of paper company Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, PA–was ever competent at anything! He...
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Your Story, My Passion
We are born, live, and die. This is our basic life story. We can’t do much about our beginnings or endings, but we have a lot of choice about how we live. Stories can help us do life better. I have...
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Dry Your Eyes
A client walked into my office recently saying that she needed a new career because her current one was making her sick; so sick, in fact, that she could not hold back the tears. In this case, as in so...
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Loving Your Work More Fun Than Driving a Jaguar
I met with a young man last week because he was worried about being left behind in the job stakes. He was thinking of switching programs from a BSc in Biology to something “more practical” like nursing...
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Fear is a paper tiger
Most of the people I work with already have a job but they want to change careers. They often say to me, “I’d like to have job joy, but I have these fears.” What are they afraid of, exactly? Usually,...
View ArticleAvoid Burnout & Advance Career – Get in the zone!
Flow−the experience we have when we’re “in the zone”−has been studied for decades by psychologist Csikszentmihalyi. During a flow state, people are fully absorbed and highly focused…they lose...
View ArticleFitting Your Square Peg Into Round Hole of Work
Career research has shown that you are more likely to have job satisfaction if you have a work-role fit, one where their core job duties align with their talents, skillsets and motivations. It’s no...
View ArticleReal Job Security is knowing your Motivational Pattern
From our childhood to our current career, we tend to gravitate towards activities and projects that require our natural strengths. Why? Simple—we get pleasure from using our talents in situations that...
View ArticleHow To Get Away With Murder of your inner critic
It’s the start of another year…but are you still haunted by an inner critic from your past? We learn as children to please others who are important to us, such as parents, teachers, peers and coaches....
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