Breaking Out of the Winter Blues
From hedgehogs to grizzly bears… hibernation is a common mammalian trait. During the cold, winter months, metabolism decreases in response to a dearth of food and resources, and these animals enter a stage of dormancy. It’s not uncommon for humans to feel a desire to do something similar. The Winter Blues Often, you might think …
Set Up for Success in the New Year
It’s the end of another year. Time for holidays, vacations, resolutions, and new beginnings. How are you planning on making the most of the new year? Ending the Year with a Bang As we all well know, with holidays, vacations, and year end quotas, this can be a very busy, often stressful time of the …
Defeat Your Inner Grinch
Kick the holiday blues and chase off your inner Grinch with these great mindfulness tips.
How to Stop Procrastinating
We’ve all found ourselves there before. We know the deadlines are approaching, we know the work is due, we even know how important it is. Yet we wait. We put it off. We find excuses. We let the anxiety and tension mount, slowly driving ourselves to the breaking point. We procrastinate. We all do, sometimes. …
Poor Performance Review – What Next?
Performance reviews can be a very stressful experience for a lot of people. Whether your recent performance has been up to par or not, performance reviews can be difficult to navigate. Sometimes, despite your best work and preparations they don’t go well. Every successful professional has a story of a particularly painful review. How you …
Professional Body Language
Your personal brand is composed of many connected parts. Communication is one of the most important, and far-reaching aspects of your brand. When we think about communication today, we often think of how quickly we reply to emails, how we navigate a cold call, or occasionally the way we conduct ourselves and what we say …
Remind yourself of what is going right
So often at work, in business, and in life, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves and let the negative things bring us down. It’s good to strive to improve our lives and ourselves, but if we only focus on the negatives and our weaknesses, then this will lead to problems like anxiety, low self-esteem, and low motivation levels.
Why do we procrastinate?
We’ve all been guilty of procrastination at one point or another. I’ll clean the house tomorrow. This essay can wait until next week. Let me just check my emails before starting on this big project. Before you know it, you’ve spent hours browsing social media and have nothing to show for it.
How to receive feedback
I’m sure that everyone reading this wants to improve themselves or their lives in some way. Yet, when someone approaches us with feedback or constructive criticism, we sometimes have a tendency to take it personally and ignore the advice given, or even bite back at the person giving it.
What is catastrophic thinking and how can we stop it?
When we face negativity or uncertainty in our lives, no matter how big or small, the mindset we approach it with can make a big difference in how much it affects our peace of mind.