Maintain your own anti-stress toolkit
Keep these common items nearby to fight daily battles with job stress.
Category: Work/Life Balance
Self-reliance: the Emerson ideal
Ralph Waldo Emerson is usually remembered as an American poet and philosopher, not a career-development expert. Yet, the philosophy of self-reliance that Emerson developed with his friend Henry David Thoreau offers a blueprint for accomplishing remarkable things in life.
Don’t let a break derail your career
Maybe you want to take a few months off to care for an ailing relative, to take a longer career break to raise a family or to realize your dream of hiking the Appalachian Trail now, rather than when you retire. When work becomes incompatible with the rest of your life, and you take a leave of absence from the job, don’t drop your career in the dust.
Ego traps that can sabotage your career
What are the most common foibles that cause promising professionals to fail? These are the traps that can bring you down.
Mental toughness for women leaders
Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch were among the only women in their Marine Corps officer training school. The training workshops they run today for female managers focus on these Marine-centric ideas.
1-Minute Strategies: May ’13
Get ahead by talking less … Take 90 days to decide if it’s time to make a career move … Use Grand Central Station’s trick for preventing chaos.
Define your boundaries at work: work/life balance
While you may have to do some things you don’t love on the job, you shouldn’t have to continually operate outside your comfort zone, says Mike Figliuolo. Try to establish a line that you won’t cross or allow others to cross with you.
Boost your ‘carrying capacity’
In the same way that advances in food, energy and housing increase the number of people an area can support, your personal success often depends upon increasing your own “carrying capacity.” Here are some ways to do it.
The effects of stress on workplace performance
Stressors like workload, personal issues, lack of work/life balance and job insecurity can cause a dip in productivity at work, according to ComPsych’s 2012 Stress Pulse survey.
What’s draining the energy from you?
Everything you do requires energy, but what you may not realize is that even things you don’t do take up energy.