Too often you just do what you always do because that’s how you’ve always done it. This is’t good enough any more. It’s why so many people have trouble with building quality relationships. You struggle with your thoughts and feelings and then you wonder why you lose touch with friends. I didn’t have a serious …
Have you ever been pulled from a project or the project ended abruptly, leaving you feeling empty? It’s a terrible feeling. I was pulled from a big project I spent months of my time working on. Then the CEO wanted to put me in a different department. Just like that my work felt like it …
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As each year passes, the more I appreciate this quote from Steve Jobs: “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, …
One of the biggest mistakes people make is they stop attempting new challenges in their career. They coast and then start to hate their job. The key to getting the spark back in your career is to look at how you view your work. I had a client who lost her spark and couldn’t find …
* This post was first published to the Work Happy Now community via email. I worked in the financial industry for seven years, and I hated talking about how to increase our checking account sign-ups. It just wasn’t fun. . I knew for at least three years that I needed to get out of the …
I recently read an article that said, don’t follow your passions. What? I almost passed out. That’s stuff from the 1950’s. Ignore how you feel and just do the work. You can just be happy after you retire. How well has that worked for people over the last 80 years? Just look at the people …
