Month: September 2011
Finding Your Passion and Inner Calling
In my previous post, I had talked about the difference between pursuing a job, career or your calling and the impact pursuing your calling has on your level of happiness at work. In this post, we talk about finding your passion and inner calling. Now, following your calling is understandablyRead More
5 Stress-Busters to Beat a Deadline
I totally thrive under the pressure of a deadline. I use deadlines to make myself just start on the work, much less finish it, because I realize that old axiom that “work expands to fill the available time” is true. I’m famous for trying to squeeze in “just one moreRead More
End Malaria — Have You Got Your Copy Yet?
Did you know that every 45 seconds a child dies from Malaria? At WorkAwesome, we love supporting genuine causes. And what’s more genuine than a book that doesn’t just speak of saving lives, but does? Meet End Malaria, the cool new book by bestselling author Michael Bungay Stanier with other business thinkers, whichRead More
How to Manage Career Transition Stress
There’s no two ways about it. No matter what the reason for the change, the career transition process can be stressful. When my former company shut down, I had been there for 5 years. I woke up one day with nowhere to go. This period of “limbo” was great forRead More
How to Deal with Difficult People at Work
Whether it be their attitude, their laziness, or the fact that they just won’t stop talking, just about everyone wants to know how to deal with difficult people at work. Sound familiar? This is a problem that is usually not addressed at the start of a job, yet it canRead More