I founded a company with a guy who was single and good looking and everyone who met with us thought we were dating. We weren’t. He was almost twenty years older than I was, for one thing. But we did spend ten hours a day together, and at some point it’s hard to say it’s […]
In case you have had your head in the sand for forever, emotional intelligence is what you need if you want to work with other people successfully. At this point, about four thousand studies have shown that emotional intelligence (“EQ” as in “emotional IQ”) makes people more successful at work. For you doubters, here is […]
Salary.com and Money magazine just released a list of the top fifty jobs. Here’s how they did the rankings: Things that are bad are less than $50,000 average salary, dangerous, and small field with little room for advancement. Things that are good are a growing field, low stress, flexibility in hours and working environment, creativity, […]
If you work the most hours you look the most desperate. You shouldn’t look lazy, but don’t be the hardest worker. After all, why do you need to work so much harder than the next person? Are you not as smart? Not as organized? Not as confident in your ability to navigate a non-work world? […]
If you don’t organize your life with a list then you won’t know what is most important. Here are the problems with not knowing what is most important: 1. You spend your life doing things that don’t matter. 2. You drive yourself crazy by doing things of little importance all day long and then having […]
When is comes to aspirational reading, the Title 9 catalogue is my favorite. I don’t know anyone at the company, but I curl up on the sofa and read the catalogue like it’s a letter from a good friend. Great things about this catalogue: The women who model the clothes. No pro athletes here and […]
Here is my first post to my blog. About two years too late. I know this because two years ago, my readers started telling me that I should blog. I ignored them, mostly, because it seemed like too much work to write every day. After all, I write two columns a week and I invariably […]
Can we all just stop talking about promotions like they matter? A promotion has meaning when someone is moving up the corporate ladder at such a slow pace that every small step is grounds for celebration. But there are no more ladders because no one stays long enough at a company to get up the […]
People would be a lot happier with the job they had if they were happier with themselves outside of their job. We have seen steady decline in job satisfaction, no matter if the employment rate is very high or very low, and even when most people have control over their time and their workload, they […]
I’ve been doing a little research on sleep. I have found that the more I understand about nutrition, the better I eat. And I thought the same would hold true for sleep. In fact, though on my way to convincing myself to sleep more, I found mostly research to help me sleep less. But first, […]