Exercise is an essential part of a successful career. It's an essential part of a good life. I think one problem a lot of us face is that we approach exercise like it's a choice.
When email first became widely used, I worked for a guy who thought it was optional. At some point, it truly [...]

Advice for getting happier: Instead of focusing on what's wrong with people, try focusing on what's right with people -what makes people happy, successful and more productive. This is what the positive psychologists do.
Senia Maymin (pronounced Sen-ya) has a master's degree in applied positive psychology. What this means is that she uses the science of [...]

I am a list writer. I do it by hand. Every day. Sometimes three or four times a day, if I'm feeling really overwhelmed.
Lists are a great way to force yourself to prioritize your life. When you read lists of why people fail, it's clear that writing a list of goals every day will make [...]

People often tell me that I should answer more questions from readers. I do actually answer a lot of questions, but I don't put them in a Q&A format. People say they like the Q&A format. But I don't believe people like it as much as they say they do. 
I confess, however, to really liking Dan Savage's [...]

By Ryan Healy — A question I have been thinking about for months is, what is more beneficial to a young person's career; putting in the extra time to do great work for a company that undervalues them, or finding a hobby that will positively contribute to the career they hope to have in the [...]

I'm not a perfectionist. In fact, when I painted my walls I didn't paint near the windows because I didn't want to do the detail work. When I accidentally address an envelope upside down, I don't get a new envelope.
You know what? Doing those things hasn't made my life any worse. It hasn't made me [...]

By Ryan Healy — Unless you are a professional athlete or working on Wall Street, an entry-level salary is not very exciting. When you couple this with the fact that the average college student graduates with tens of thousands in student loan and credit card debt and the cost of renting a place in [...]

By Ryan Healy — Most of my friends would love to run their own business some day. Me too. However, we believe the first logical step is to get a few years of work experience, make connections, and save money.
A couple of months ago, my good friends from college, Matt, Cole and Adam, came to [...]

It used to be that finding a good paying career was the path to adult-life stability. Those days are over. What we think of as stability has to change, and how we get to that stability has to change.
Here's a summary of the new employee of today's workplace: Most will change jobs every two years. [...]

Ta-da! It's my new blog design. This is a big moment for me because when I started blogging, I never dreamed that it would matter so much to me that I would actually pay to have a custom blog design.
There is an important lesson here about starting something new. Many people who have successful businesses [...]

Burnout is as much about your dreams as it is about your work, because burnout is the gap between your expectations and your ability to meet them. Jennifer Senior has a great article in this week's New York Magazine about about burnout, which I will quote from here.
Burnout is not about how many hours you [...]

I was at the World Trade Center when it fell. At each anniversary that passes I write my story, and each year it changes a little. This year, I have been thinking about that moment when I accepted death.
I was at the corner of Liberty and Broadway when the first tower fell. I was too [...]

For those of you about to start another year at school, here's a list of things to keep in mind: Twenty things to do in college to set yourself up for a great job when you graduate.
1. Get out of the library.
"You can have a degree and a huge GPA and not be ready [...]

It used to be that people moved to where their job was. But where you live has a lot of impact on how happy you are. So it makes sense that today people pick a city first and then find a job, and cities maven Wendy Waters thinks this trend will increase. I will be [...]

It’s very hard to tell how you're doing in the blogosphere. I am, by nature, competitive, so I am always looking for ways to measure success. To this end, I've been using Technorati, the grand ranker of all blogs.
So let me just take a moment to say that I made it into the top 100,000 [...]

Yesterday traffic to my blog doubled. On top of the usual load of about 350 visitors, I had 350 investment bankers: At 1pm Dealbreaker posted a link to my guest rant, and in the next hour alone, 100 people came. No joke.
Of course, my traffic statistics were endlessly interesting to me throughout all this. But [...]

Here's a collection of interesting ideas from people who are talking about the value of business school:
1. Business school is not an effective means to self-discovery.
Most business school applications require that you tell what you're going to do with the MBA. This is because most business schools think it is a waste to get an [...]

Scott Newberg flew into Logan airport in the middle of the night. He went straight home to his office, and in the dark room the blue light of his computer glared – a screen full of unfinished work that piled up while he was gone. He sat down at the keyboard, and that’s when he [...]

One of the best ways to get what you want is to be an extraordinary performer at work. Stars get more training, more mentoring, better projects and greater flexibility. Fortunately, you don't need the perfect job situation in order to be a star, because most star qualities come from you – from taking your basically [...]

American dream has changed. It used to be a college education, a steady job, a nice house (and a family to fill it), and a better financial picture than your parents. There is a new American Dream that is still about "doing better than your parents" but not in a financial sense. This dream is [...]