Does life ever sometimes seem like one big long to-do list? With too much to do and not enough time to do it, life can easily become a grind. We often think that an easier life would be a happier life, but in many cases that’s not so. Once.
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When someone asks you what you do for a living, how do you answer? And equally, or perhaps even more important, what does your face look like? Compare and contrast these scenarios: Teacher A answers with a heavy sigh, “I teach high school.” Teacher B answers with a smile,.
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We’ll all been there. Things are running smoothly, then whack, seemingly out of nowhere you get hit over the head. You lose your job, your competition takes away your best business or someone in your personal life drops a bomb on you. You never saw it coming, except of.
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When I was in college I signed up to attend a “meeting” to learn about summer jobs that supposedly paid the big bucks. In hindsight I should have known it would be a pitch. I entered the conference room eager and open-minded. Yet as the perky young woman began.
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I was sitting at an upscale burger place in Atlanta a few months back with my daughter. An African-American family sat down at the table beside us – a mom, a dad, two college-age boys, and a grandmother. The tables were big pine farm style tables. We were all.
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A teacher friend of mine recently expressed frustration that she doesn’t get the respect that she feels she deserves from parents and students. I wonder which feedback she’s paying attention to? Too often in life we listen to the feedback of the lowest performers, and allow it to color.
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How many times have you worked like a fiend on something and then found yourself so burned out you couldn’t bear to even look at it again? You’re not alone. The up down cycle of intense work followed by a sloth-like period of no results is a common phenomenon.
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One of my clients is remodeling their offices. Employees have to walk through construction everyday, and it’s having a chilling effect on morale. When deciding how to manage the construction process, my client underestimated the powerful impact that surroundings have on performance. As humans, we’re drawn to beauty. We’re.
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There’s a human tendency to feel like you’re pulling more than your fair share of the weight. That’s because we only experience the hardships of our own reality. We don’t see the work our colleague or partner does when we’re not around. We don’t experience their stress or tension..
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I knew it. How many times have you found yourself saying that, after the fact? When you ignore your instincts, and go forward despite a slightly uncomfortable feeling in your gut, you almost always regret it. Sadly, it’s usually only after the fact that we can fully articulate why.
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