7 Top Tips to Successfully Negotiate Your Salary

Articulate your Value to Get What You Deserve It takes courage and planning to successfully negotiate your salary or a salary increase. In fact, it might be even more nerve-wracking to ask for a raise than it is to negotiate a new job offer. Negotiation is not only critically important, but it is also underutilized. In…

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10 Tips to Enjoy a Minimalist Mindful Vacation

How to Resist Over-Planning and Stay Stress-Free As one of the biggest over-planners I know: throwing together a largely unplanned vacation is way outside of my comfort zone. Regardless, I was determined to do something new. I wanted to avoid my usual obsessively detailed tendencies and go for a minimalist mindful vacation! The trick is:…

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Avoid the Toxic Impact of Emotional Social Media Posting

Avoid the toxic impact of emotional social media posting. Someone you know posted an inflammatory comment. Perhaps it was just a poorly worded statement or opinion. Regardless of the original intent: suddenly you have a Facebook-style food fight where people are slinging hateful comments instead of edibles! Opinions are free and people love to share. However,…

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The Shocking Truth: Being An Overachiever Will Hurt Your Career

Article Originally Published on Forbes I’m not sure when it all started. From the time I can remember, I put my toys away neatly while other children played with reckless abandon. I was shy, quiet, loved to build with Legos and organizing things. One day I grew up, lost the shyness, became a professional young…

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How to Achieve 25% More Free Time by Doing 1 Thing

The internet is full of advice on how to maximize your personal productivity and get more free time. With a wealth of information at our fingertips and zillions of articles about how to improve one’s lifestyle, the question is: why aren’t these tips helping? The thing is; if you are like most people: short on…

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3 Steps to Tackle Endless Task Lists: From ‘To Do’ to DONE

How’s that ‘To Do’ List working for you? If you are like me: The List was a monster that seemed to only grow! It felt like no matter what I accomplished, the ‘To Do’ List didn’t seem any shorter. At the end of each work day I would feel defeated and frustrated without a sense…

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Holiday Survival Kit – How to Keep Sanity and Perspective

Is it just me or did life perform some strange time-warp between Thanksgiving and Christmas? I’ll be lucky to get my tree up before Dec. 25th! Life moves incredibly fast these days and with the economic bumps and crazy politics our society has experienced, we may not always feel like we have enough or that…

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No Signal, No Worries – Control Freak to Clarity

No signal, no worries – and a few lessons learned on vacation without cell signal. I learned that I was an obsessive weather app checker. For some, it’s Facebook, Twitter, or even Pinterest. For me: it’s the weather. Upon reflection, this makes sense for an outdoorsy type with hobbies that include hiking and cycling. After…

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