Why We Fail to Have Great Career

A professor of Economics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, Larry Smith has fun talking about careers in this TED Talk.   In a nut shell – don’t settle for interesting – go for passion.

How Are Your New Year resolutions Going?

How many of you started this year with buckets of passion around a resolution or two?  And how many of you are still stuck in your old behaviors and patterns?  Its ok you are not alone!  Start anywhere and for those of you needing some extra motivation to recharge your efforts international bestselling author and motivational speaker Dr. John Demartini is offering a public talk via webcast on Wednesday February 22 on  “SuccessfullySetting & Achieving Goals - How to Be More, Do More and Have More in 2012”.    There is no better time than today to start making your 2012 dreams a reality.

Is it a Work-Life Balance Issue or Your Age

I couldn’t help myself in posting this as many of my workshop attendees are between 30-50 years old, and like we discuss getting clear on the root issues that are causing the imbalance is half the solution to creating more balance.  So what do you do when the cause is your age? This article in Scientific American, MidlifeMisery: Is There Happiness After the 40s? might offer some hope that it’s only a passing stage.   

Is Resilience The Key to Happiness?

According to an article posted on the BBC, the key to solving depression and finding long lasting happiness might lay in a person’s capacity for resilience. However many questions remain about resilience – is it learned, is it something you are born with or is it within your brain chemistry?  I wonder, once you develop it, is it something that works for all situations and circumstances or are there different strains of resiliency one needs to develop to cope with the plethora of situations people face every day?  

Good and Bad Stress

Not all stress is bad for you – not only does stress keep you alive when facing danger it can give you the boost you need to get your hustle on when you need it most.   Today in the Wall Street Journal there is an article; When Stress is Good for You, on the division between good and bad stress, and techniques to keep you in the healthy stress zone.

Work-Life for the Hourly Workers

Writer for Employee Benefits News, Kathleen Koster recently reached out to me to discuss the challenges faced by hourly workers when it comes to work life balance.  In her article, Nixing 9 to 5 - Flexible work strategies for employers with a nonexempt workforce,  she addresses the issues, “it can be difficult to remember that not every employee has the option to work at home when her child is sick, or flex his hours to go to a mid-day doctor's appointment.”   Read more about the other side of work-life balance – the side where there is even less control than in the corporate world.

Willpower

According to the abstract on a new book by leading social psychologist and scientist Roy F. Baumeister’s latest research, he reveals that the average person spends four hours of their day battling temptation. “While self-control is biologically rooted, we have the capacity to manipulate our nature. Willpower works like a muscle that can be strengthened with practice, and fatigued with overuse.”  Sounds like a book worth reading for those of us with loud little gremlins in our head.