Why the traits missing from your job description beat the perfect resume You are not your resume. How do you communicate with your colleagues? How do you do your job? How do you act when no one is looking? Will your colleagues remember you when you leave? Will they miss you? Who are you outside …
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For Anyone Who Feels Like Your Mind Won’t Ever Switch Off (Lesson on Mindfulness)
Let yourself take a minute to be mindful. our mind betrays you sometimes. Not just sometimes but most of the time. Why? Because it is thinking of a million things at the same time. It is organizing a million things at the same time. My to-do list for today. Emails to check. Calls to answer. …
This Is How You Plant Your Feet And Stand Rooted In Your Relationship
Building your relationship is a lot more important than having one. A colleague of mine, after one year marriage, told me she is getting a divorce. “Huh? What happened?” I asked. I was expecting monumental reasons like maybe he has cheated or she has or something serious enough to break their marriage. “We have grown …
We Don’t Get What We Want Because We Just Don’t Care Enough
You give time and effort for those things you care about. Our days are filled with the path to future skills, tasks and commitments we believe we can’t possibly take on. We have seduced ourselves into believing that we’re not born with the talent, or that the obstacles to doing the work are just too …
What If You Care More?
Without caring, life is like the bottom of the ocean. Frigid and sunless. There are forces like love and caring and wonder and connection that can overpower anything you are going through. In every one of us, a light shines with the intensity of a thousand blazing suns. Continue reading …. To your inspirations, Banchi
Just Breathe
“Healing is every breath.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Someone says something awful to you and you just stand there, powerless and hurt. Your body is trembling. You are thinking of the just-right poison cocktail of words you are dying to deliver. The perfect knock-out verbal punch. In the meantime, your breathing has become shallow. Your …
This Is Why You Need To Forgive Those Who Hurt You
Anything you gain by refusing to forgive is certainly far less desirable. I met someone who betrayed me in a crowded restaurant a few weeks ago. He had been my mentor many years ago. When he asked me to loan him money for his training center, I did not hesitate. I loaned him lots of …
Why You Need Emotional Intelligence To Be Successful
Think the street hustler who can’t even spell his own name. But somehow talks you into giving him the shirt off your back. “Lisa drove 15 hours straight, in a diaper, from Houston to Orlando, to confront her boyfriend’s new squeeze in an airport parking lot. Lisa packed zip ties, pepper spray, and large garbage …
I Believe Working So Hard Should Not Come At The Price Of Your Life
Work matters but it should not come at the cost of your relationships. It sounds beautiful, doesn’t it? Making tons and tons of money. Having the money to do whatever the hell we want. The “Work hard” advice pushes people to find a magic bullet that is as fun as a theme park and pays …
Happiness Is An Inside Job
Happiness isn’t something that is deserved or earned from something outside yourself. Looking for happiness outside of you is like expecting the speaker of the ‘Happiness’ seminar to show you the sun you can’t otherwise seem to find. Even when it is right above you in the sky. You are only ripping yourself apart by …