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Browsing category "Self-management"

Check-up for self-delusion

Posted to: Diversity |  Self-management |  Women
February 7th, 2010
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It’s unbelievable to me that everyone continues to watch football when we know that men are getting genuinely, permanently, brain damaged. The game is tantamount to cockfighting, only with people instead of animals.
The NFL has finally admitted the problem, to the extent it is poised to be the largest funding source for research about trauma [...]

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8 Tips for anger management

January 8th, 2010
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People at work are asking me why I am not working as many hours as I used to. I am. But I am working on anger management. Here are seven tips I've tried using:
1. Face the problem and make it a priority.
I used to think anger management problem is a thing for men who are [...]

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You can be happier by reading this post

January 7th, 2010
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I’m pretty sure that the people who pay attention to happiness research are actually happier people. And happiness begets happiness. So I have a feeling that me just writing a post about happiness, and you reading it makes us all happier.
Here is why I think that:
Recently, Gretchen Rubin sent me her new book, The Happiness Project: [...]

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Welcome, San Francisco Chronicle Readers

Posted to: Self-management
December 7th, 2009
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It looks like a lot of people are coming here from the article in the San Francisco Chronicle: Big City Blues, Could a more affordable life, away from the Bay Area, actually be better, by Rob Baedeker.
Here are some of my most popular posts about figuring out where to live:

I'm moving out of New York City
How [...]

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There's no magic pill for being lost.

Posted to: Parenting |  Self-management
December 4th, 2009
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When I was in the mental ward, it was mostly girls in their teens with messed up track records and eating disorders. But my roommate was from Kellogg, a top-ten business school.
I thought it was insane that she was there. She was so smart. She was going to be great at work. Her only problem [...]

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Asperger's at work: Why I need a sick day to register my car

Posted to: Diversity |  Self-management
December 1st, 2009
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The guy who sold me my car cancelled the plates the very next week. Luckily, I didn’t know that because there was a November expiration sticker on the plate. So the fact that I was driving the car illegally for three months did not bother me. Until now. But now I’m at the DMV.
I know [...]

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How to make business travel manageable

Posted to: Productivity |  Self-management
November 11th, 2009
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Last year I traveled almost every week. Some weeks I traveled to three different cities.
If you are excited about business travel, thinking it’s a free ticket to see the world, you should stop reading now. But if you are having trouble maintaining your personal life in the face of tons of travel, these tips from [...]

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Knowing a problem is harder than solving it

Posted to: Self-management
September 9th, 2009
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Self-knowledge can solve all your problems. Because it's more difficult to understand what your problem is than to know how to solve it.
Most of the time we actually have the knowledge we need to solve a problem, but we don't like reality, so we pretend to not have the knowledge.
This reminds me of the bazillion [...]

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Lessons in self-confidence (from Amanda Blank)

Posted to: Management |  Self-management
September 4th, 2009
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What I'm listening to right now: Amanda Blank. Here's a song to play when you're not at work.
Amanda is a white-girl rapper, darling of the hipsters, and hot-girl candy for the intelligentsia. Right up my alley, right? My favorite line so far is "My rhymes are painful and fresh/My p*ssy's tastin' the best."
Today, Ryan Healy [...]

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How to have more self-discipline

Posted to: Self-management
July 8th, 2009
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For a while I have been fascinated by the research about happiness. Some of my favorite research is from Sonja Lyumbomirsky, psychology professor at University of California Riverside. (She's great at listing really small things you can do to impact your happiness.) And from Dan Gilbert’s Hedonic Psychology Lab at Harvard. (I follow PhD students [...]

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How to be a tall person at work

Posted to: Leadership |  Self-management
June 16th, 2009
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The Institute of Social and Economic Research recently published a study about the connection between popularity in high school and earning power later in life. New York magazine, information source to the rich and popular, summarized the study like this: "This study may seem to burst our Revenge of the Nerds fantasies, but it's logical [...]

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Good grammar might derail your career

Posted to: Journalism |  Self-management
May 19th, 2009
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I love grammar. I can remember in sixth grade when we spent weeks parsing sentences. There was a moment of self-awareness when I thought to myself, “If I let anyone see how much I like this, I'll never get invited to good parties.”
So I know I love grammar and I know it’s not normal.
My first [...]

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Three times you should lie at work

Posted to: Job Hunt |  Self-management |  Women
May 11th, 2009
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Everyone thinks transparency and authenticity are great. But sometimes you need to rein them in. I’ve talked about how I do this with my blog, which is really an example of how I rein myself in at work. There are times we each have to do this at work, and in some cases, we need [...]

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Gold digging Web 2.0 style

April 16th, 2009
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The guy I’m sort of dating asks me, “Do you know Glenda Bautista?”
I say, “No.”
He says, “We’re trying to hire her.”
So I check out her blog and dis her and he says, “She was dating Matt Mullenweg.”
I say, “Really.”
He says, “Yeah. I was talking with my business partner and we both thought it must really [...]

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Twentysomething: Gen Y is better than everyone else at marketing themselves

April 7th, 2009
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This is a guest post from Dan Schawbel. He is 25 years old and already, the New York Times has called him a "personal branding guru." Dan's book is Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and it just came out today.
Personal branding describes a process where individuals differentiate themselves from [...]

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How to shift between work and dating

Posted to: Negotiating |  Self-management |  Women
January 23rd, 2009
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Here is a map of where all the single men are:
http://creativeclass.typepad.com/thecreativityexchange/2007/04/the_singles_map.html
I do not live near any single men. Well, I sort of do. My divorce lawyer has set me up with a few men in my hometown, Madison, Wisconsin. He told me that I am too focused on my work life. I need to get [...]

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Change how you walk to change your life

Posted to: Self-management
January 22nd, 2009
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We all know that people judge each other in the first five seconds they see each other. We talk about clothes, and weight , and tone of voice. But you can also judge someone by their walk.
Don’t tell me this is shallow. You can’t help but judge people by their gait. But the good news [...]

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Focus on learning in the face of recession

December 3rd, 2008
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I announced last week that I'll be running a poll on my sidebar each week. I’m aiming for a new one every Tuesday.
The poll is a fun way for me to think about career topics. A new format always gets me going. But it's also fun because even after writing about careers for ten years, [...]

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3 Ways work will change when Gen Y is in charge

Posted to: Self-management
October 23rd, 2008
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Part of knowing where to steer your career is knowing what is changing in the landscape. In ten years, Gen Y will have taken over middle management. Maybe in five years, if my own office is any indication. But I am sure that Gen Y will run the show differently. And no matter your age, [...]

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Self-sabotage is never limited to just one part of your life

Posted to: Self-management
October 20th, 2008
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At the start of our road trip to his cousin's wedding in Illinois, the farmer says, "I have a present for you."
He pulls out a book that is wrapped in the paper that wrapped the last present I got him: Lolita. Which he reads every time he sleeps over at my house. I knew that [...]

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