We often experience conflict between personal and professional goals. Yet, most of us value family, health, community, and leisure, as well as our careers. Following are some ideas on how we can create strategic harmony and integration with these various life goals, based on new research reported in Harvard Business Review. One of the first things we need to do to create … [Read more...] about Create Harmony for Your Goals
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Overcome Your Fear of Failure
In many ways, the world is wired against you taking risks. Will the annual audit ever be critical of you for not trying to seize that new opportunity that you decided was too risky? No. Audits are critical of acts of “commission” vs “omission.” You don’t want the financial report to show a big expense on a project that did not work out. But the audit will never fault … [Read more...] about Overcome Your Fear of Failure
Build Your Career Resilience
Career expectations have shifted dramatically in recent times. Once upon a time, people joined an organization and planned to spend many years there with successive promotions. These days we need to be much more nimble. It is healthy to prepare for multiple career “pivots” over time. The disruption of Artificial Intelligence in the workplace makes building our career … [Read more...] about Build Your Career Resilience
Finding Joy in Your Busy Life
How satisfied are you with your life? Big question! Researchers have found that we need to feel three things regularly for a satisfying life: Achievement (recognition; sense of accomplishment) Meaningfulness (connection to something larger than ourselves) Joy in the moment (happiness; positive emotion) Many successful working professionals report that they … [Read more...] about Finding Joy in Your Busy Life
Do You Suffer from Hurry Sickness?
People are wearing themselves out. Are you one of them? One study on professional services firms found that the majority of respondents said their jobs were“highly demanding, exhausting, and chaotic.” If that sounds like you – or if you are heading that direction – you may end up with “hurry sickness.” This malady was first identified more than fifty years ago by two … [Read more...] about Do You Suffer from Hurry Sickness?