I’m getting very tired of people not believing in their superpowers. It’s why I hate the word strengths. It’s the most overused word in business today. We focus on things we are good at instead of doing work that we care about. You may crunch numbers because you are good at it. You may sell …
Editor's note: This is a guest post from Mike Bundrant of iNLP. “Do it, Mike! Just do it! Stop your whining and get off your butt!” This is how I used to motivate myself. I carried around an inner high school football coach to bark at me whenever he thought I was slacking. The problem …
I’m afraid of failure. I’m not so afraid of failure that my creativity locks up. I have a popular blog, social media accounts, and I’ve interviewed superheroes in the business world. I’m putting stuff out into the world to help people, but I’m still holding back. I recently hopped on Twitter tried to think of …
I’ve had some real “fire cracker explodes in your hand” kind of days. You know those days when you take a chance and it back fires in your face. The old Karl (before Work Happy Now) usually got all depressed and sulked for days on end when I had a lousy day. I now practice …
The Law of Attraction (LoA) gets a bad rep because of cheesy YouTube Videos and terrible books. They want to make the concept simple and enticing, but in doing so they lose much of the life changing impact that the practice can have. I didn’t believe until I started believing. Imagine that. 😉 We are …
Zappos has been honored with many accolades these past few years, including Business Week Customer Service Champ of 2009. Tony Hsieh, Zappos’ CEO, has been asked to speak all over the world. Zappos was named one of Fortune’s top 100 companies to work for in 2009. Many people love to talk about the wonderful success …
19 Reasons to Buy Zappos’ Delivering Happiness Book Read More »
Most of my writing lessons in the past 3 years have come from reading blogs. I’ve read many great writers in my day from Ayn Rand to Charles Bukowski. They taught me the value of clear and entertaining prose. What they didn’t teach me was how to sell myself. I didn’t realize that as I …
Every now and again, I like to bring you short interviews to give you a new perspective on work happiness. During my study of work happiness I found that there are many paths to the same goal. Some people believe that loving what you do is a must, while other people believe that relationships are …
Interview with Social Media Expert – Nathan Hangen Read More »
As always, I’m trying to bring as many perspectives about work happiness to you that I possibly can. Jonathan Fields of Career Renegade is a friend who I met at SxSW and he is also a wonderful writer. I reviewed his book and took away a ton of great ideas. He’s a serial entrepreneur and …
Are you working at your job and wondering why you aren’t doing what you love? Maybe your passion is surfing, finance, or knitting. Regardless of what your passion is there is always a way to make money off what you enjoy doing. That is if you can find the right angle. You just need to …
