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Should I Quit My Job? The Lowdown on Three Types of Jobs – Including Toxic Ones
With a new year approaching, many of us get to thinking that it may be time to move on to a different job. Whether it’s time to quit depends on the type of job you’re in – and how much that job’s...
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Who’s The Jellyfish in Your Workplace?
Today we welcome Tyler Dixon of Millennial in the Middle to the Working Self Millennial Perspectives series! So apparently the jellyfish are taking over. Have you ever seen one? I have. Both in the...
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Forget the Pursuit of Happiness!
Happiness is overrated. We think rushing around to find the next pleasurable hit is a good plan…until the hits stop coming, or don’t prove to be big enough. So what’s the alternative? Meaning, of...
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Do You Allow Yourself to Experience Joy in Its Full Force?
When was the last time you fully experienced joy? I don’t mean a happy moment or a day of ready smiles or even a knee-slapping evening with friends. I’m talking the intense, clarifying, vulnerable...
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The Hidden Barrier: Fear of Success
Admit to someone that you have a fear of failure and they nod their head in empathy. Speak of your fear of success, though, and you usually get a puzzled expression in return. It’s a reaction I...
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“I Hate My Job. Now What?!”
Have you ever clawed your way into a job only to discover that you…hate it? If so, you’re not alone. Many of us have faced the crushing reality of “dream jobs” (or “dream educational opportunities”)...
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When the Dream Falls Apart
We always think that one day we’ll be more than we currently are. Down the road I’ll become a teacher. Or a CEO. Or a published writer. Or an anchor person. After I figure out my path. After I get my...
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You Don’t Have to Be a Do-Gooder to Do Meaningful Work
Which of the following is more meaningful? A teaching job at an inner-city middle school. A real estate job in a well-off suburb. Did you pick one? Great. Then you’re wrong. (Don’t worry, I’m not this...
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How Millennials Can Get Past Freelance Jitters
Today we welcome Rachel Gall as part of our Millennial Perspectives series. Rachel is the thought-provoking writer of the blog So-Called Millennial and the mind behind Rachel Gall Creative, a graphic...
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My Favorite Career Advice (and Its Surprising Source)
I’ve spent the past decade fairly obsessed with questions of career and work. It would seem reasonable, then, that my favorite career advice I ever ran across would come from some learned source. A...
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Only Woman in The Meeting
Welcome to the latest installment of Millennial Perspectives, this time from my friend Natalie Braverman of theQuestionable! When you’re a woman of our generation, you’re told you will enter the...
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How to Find a Mentor
How to find a mentor is the topic of my hot-off-the-headset podcast interview on Stacking Benjamins, a high-energy, humor-filled show about earning, spending and saving. We discuss: What’s the cost of...
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Hiding From Our Life’s Work Behind Our Careers
Is your career helping you do your life’s work – or standing in the way? Steven Pressfield poses this question – among many others – in his book Turning Pro. He claims that many of us have “shadow...
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Focus on Being Productive, Not Busy
Today’s thought-provoking contribution to the Millennial Perspectives Series comes to us from Blake Cavignac of Intellectual Innovations. One of the more popular sport analogies that gets thrown around...
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The Key to Meaningful Work: Your Honest Hour
If you want to find meaningful work, you need to know when your “Honest Hour” occurs. As we’ve mentioned in the past, work’s only meaningful when it has genuine significance to ourselves. In other...
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10 Signs a Job Opportunity Isn’t the Right Fit
We face countless job opportunities throughout our lives, whether they be in the form of new positions, promotions, or side hustles. The trick to creating a life filled with meaningful work is knowing...
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Making the Most of the 20s, Pressure Free
Q: “In a recent newsletter you mentioned the work of Dr. Meg Jay and the importance of using your 20s to best advantage. I was wondering how an early-20s individual like myself can balance the...
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First HuffPo Piece = SMART Goal-Setting Come True
We made it on Huffington Post! “Forget Work-Life Balance – Aim for Blend Instead” I set the goal to publish on HuffPo way back on January 2, 2013 – a couple of weeks before the first iteration of this...
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Why Certainty is Key to Personal Success – And How to Get It
You just graduated from college. You’re excited and ready to start your professional career but there’s also some uncertainty about how it’s all going to play out. Fast forward… It has now been a year...
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5 Steps to Turning Down a Promotion Strategically
How should we proceed when we realize a promotion isn’t right for us? (See my recent post “10 Signs a Job Opportunity Isn’t the Right Fit” for help determining that.) Ideally, we turn down the...
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