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Patience Pays

In a world operating as fast as the one we live in, our ability to quickly move from one thing to another is very remarkable. Shiny Object Syndrome exists in nearly everyone and we can’t help but to be drawn to the next great thing that’s right in front of us. If you’re not first, you’re last has become our mantra. Moving quickly has become an art. We give all of this maximum effort but still we feel like we’re going in circles. What if the the way to move forward is to let things play out? It’s not some […]

The Job Isn’t Finished Until It’s Finished

Starting a job vs. finishing a job. These go hand in hand but have different levels of difficulty in terms of accomplishing them. On one hand, you may think that getting started is the most important thing for any idea to get off the ground. You wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. Getting the ball rolling is important and every great thing starts with a first step. But, the first step is often the easiest and easy soon gives way to hard. The hard part is finishing what you started. Doing a new project can be both exciting and motivating so why […]

The Importance of Consistency

The road to success has many important steps with none more important than the consistency of your actions. If you were to make a hierarchy of importance for these steps, this may be at the top. There are several reasons for this, however, none will be more impactful than the action of finishing what you have already started. The beginning of any great idea starts with a bout of inspiration. While inspiration can be hard to find, it can also strike from anywhere at anytime and costs you nothing. You can be in the shower, doing a workout, taking a […]

The Importance of Getting Started

Something that is so vague yet sought out by everyone is one’s sense of self purpose. The direction you choose to go in life is one of the most important choices you will ever make and is one that has an infinite amount of roads to take. In a way it’s not fair that you have to decide on the things that will affect you in such a big way when you don’t come close to having all the information to make such as big decision. We are all learning to fly a plane mid-air when we’ve never once sat […]

Improving Your Likability

By this point in your life you probably know how well you are socially, whether you are a talker, listener, introvert, extrovert. Did you have trouble making friends early on in your life? Or expressing yourself in front of others, holding a good conversation, approaching a group of people, getting a boyfriend/girlfriend? If any of these resonate with you, you know it all too well. These are skills that don’t come naturally for a lot of people and you’re not likely to get any better unless you practice. But how do you practice social skills? You practice them everyday. Think […]

How To Function as an Introvert

Describe yourself in three words.. if any of the three come out as shy, reserved, hidden, or something similar, you know that your personality leans to the introverted side. For those who do have this side to them, they know all too well that there is some difficulty in working with others who aren’t shy and are in fact quite boisterous. The problem is that people react to the talkative and the outgoing. Those that are already outgoing relate to them and those that are reserved rely on them to network, start conversations, and to put themselves out there. The […]

How To Get Better At Conversation

Do you find yourself nervous about having a conversation with someone new? This isn’t uncommon. We all have our group of friends that conversation comes so easy with, but how do you make things easy when you’re with a new group, at a conference, or just sitting next to someone on a plane? Take a look at these steps: 1. You’re nervous, but so are they – Realize that it’s not just you that is having to think about what to say. The other person wants to be liked just as much as you and may be very self-conscious throughout […]

How To Get Your Energy Level Back Up

Your job is most likely going to drain you and, unfortunately, kill your productivity, focus, and drive. The 5 o’clock ‘brain drain’ will waste a lot of time that you could spend doing something you like or working on yourself. While you can’t charge your company a premium rate for using up your best hours of the day, there are steps that you can take to raise your energy levels to eliminate this afternoon crash. 1. Exercise – You need to wear yourself out to have more energy. That may sound strange but it’s true. Studies have shown that exercising […]

Don’t Get Absorbed In Your Immediate Surroundings

There’s a problem going around that’s nothing new, but something that certainly hasn’t been solved. How do you compare yourself to the lives of others? Are your problems greater than the ones you don’t have to face? The chances are good that you feel that they are. The problem mentioned above refers to exactly this – you get so absorbed in the problems you face and your day-to-day life that you become unaware of the life outside. It’s concerning when someone hits a rough patch in life and feels that they can’t get free and this feeling is real for […]

How To Get Yourself Out Of A Rut

There’s a feeling that everyone is familiar with, where the wheels are spinning in place and real progress is not being made. It’s frustrating. Why can’t this problem go away? When you’re presented with an issue that takes some thought, all of your mental muscles are stretched and if not solved quickly, these muscles fatigue rapidly. The feeling of burnout is a symptom of this fatigue and at some point the original problem you set out to solve never really does. There are a lot of different scenarios where this is true. Between work, school, social life, home life, there […]

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