When it’s reasons vs. results, side with results.
Adapted from The Art of Work: How to Make Work, Work For You! Living your life in an evergreen way means that you are always growing and enjoying the fruits of all that you have learned and do. Continual learning can bring joy and fulfillment to your work and your...
read moreSpeak As Though The Whole World Hears!
Adapted from The Art of Work: How to Make Work, Work For You! Communication is a sharing process that enables all of us to work and live harmoniously and productively with one another. Speaking is one of the most powerful means you have of communicating, and how well...
read moreWelcome Your Work as a Blessing!
Adapted from The Art of Work: How to Make Work, Work For You! There are so many people who work through their jobs, day after day, year after year, without any real joy in the tasks they perform. I’m sure you know at least one of these people. From time to time, in...
read moreEvery Challenge is an Opportunity to Succeed
Adapted from The Art of Work: How to Make Work, Work For You! The ability and desire to embrace challenge is already deeply ingrained in your mind, whether you realize it or not. The challenges you face are real, and so is your opportunity to not only overcome them,...
read moreImagine the World You Are Prepared to Create!
Adapted from The Art of Work: How to Make Work, Work For You! In one of my favorite books, As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, I learned that one of the biggest problems facing humanity is that we ‘simply don’t think’. Most people can talk at length about the things...
read moreBefore You Take That Gig
Today, much conversation and activity surround the idea of ‘gigging’. The truth is, the reality of gigging has existed since mankind. As a child, members of my own family spoke often of part time J.O.B.s, or ‘gigs’. Anyone from a musical family...
read moreMobility In The Workforce
Recently while considering the need for, and value of, mobility in the workforce, I asked one of my millennial friends to share her perspective on this subject with me. Because my friend is educated and bright, her thoughtful response did not surprise me. Still, it...
read moreAre College Degrees Relevant?
Last week, my family and I celebrated three nephews who are all entering NCA&TSU as freshmen. Two are entering the School of Engineering and one will enter the School of Business. As a matter of fact, one is an honor student and so excited that he’s already...
read more…to ADD and Conquer
Recently, I participated in a meeting and heard one of the speakers use this terminology “…how to translate problems into design solutions…”. Our meeting continued well into discussions on areas of opportunities and statistics re to the subject...
read moreOde to My Books of Yesterday (…and How they saved my young life!)
In ‘The Sound of Music‘, the shero, Julie Andrews’ character Maria, sings about …”raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with string” – as a few...
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