Category: Personal Development

Writer Morra Aarons-Mele is a believer in having a fully stocked “kitchen cabinet,” meaning a digital sisterhood of subject-matter experts and confidantes. With your kitchen cabinet, you feel comfortable sharing doubts and vulnerabilities, whereas you wouldn’t express these things to your exec, your mentor or even the person in the cubicle next to yours.

Are there people you look up to, who inspire you? Your heroes can comfort you, guide you, advise you, help you through challenging times and also—let’s face it—make you feel kind of inadequate. Megan Day, author of New Mom, New Job, proposes an exercise in her book.

Chris Hopwood of the University of California, Davis has created a realness test to measure one’s ability for acting the same way on the outside as they feel on the inside, an important component of authenticity and the ability to defeat our own neuroses.

Don’t waste your money in these five areas.

We all occasionally struggle with our energy levels. You only have so much of it, and it’s not enough to accomplish everything. It can help to use a metaphor and picture your energy as a bank account: the “energy bank,” as it’s sometimes referred to. You must understand your budget and work within its means.

Self-care is non-negotiable. But when the whole world seems confusing, it’s easy to confuse what’s truly making us stronger with what’s tearing us down. Here’s some advice on telling the difference.

While a good communications policy can help set boundaries and give guidance, a little examination of our own biases toward certain types of electronic communications can go a long way to giving value and being seen as valuable in our careers.

With more self-care apps available than ever before, it’s hardly an act of self-care to try and sort through them all! But here are some suggestions to start you on the right path in 2022.

You may think your job is boring, but science hints that people who work with people (that’s you) are not half as frustrated by boredom as those who work with numbers.

Don’t you wish things were… well, frankly, easier? Well, maybe that’s not as far-fetched as you think.