Month: April 2013
How Ocean Swimming Helped My Personal Goals
Several times in my career I found myself wondering why, despite putting in hard work and long hours, I wasn’t getting more out of it. The reason things weren’t moving as fast as I would like them to was usually related to my personal goals I set, or more appropriately,Read More
How to Get Your Boss Let You Telework
A few months ago, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made headlines when she effectively banned her employees from telecommuting. She claimed that teams perform their best work in close collaboration with one another, but other Yahoo insiders indicated a more serious problem. Namely, that employees were simply not honoring their teleworkRead More
4 Tips for People Going it Alone
Through no fault of their own, many are being forced to go it alone. Redundancy or a lack of opportunities means that entrepreneurship is the only option in an unforgiving labor market. The job security once on offer can prove a struggle to find in today’s tumultuous economy and theRead More
Is Google+ Going to be Bigger than Facebook?
It is hard to topple something that has been used with good results for so long. This is true either because consumers are afraid to try something unusual or because it is hard to imagine a life without it. But somewhere along its dominance, a new player will give theRead More
How to Build and Develop a Passive Income Website
For those of you interested in making money from home, this is accomplished by building a business from home. Most people never accomplish making significant money from home because they treat their online making money endeavors as a “hobby” and never as a “business.” Once you make that distinction and startRead More
How to Play Pretend to Energize Your Work Day
When we were younger playing grown-up was a fun game; we could be artists, police officers, doctors — all in one afternoon. Yet, while admittedly it’s been awhile, I don’t think playing ‘the overtired employee in the third cubicle’ was ever high on the imaginary rotation. Still, here we allRead More
How Do You Succeed in the Job Search Today? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Sent out multiple resumes without avail? How about reciting your elevator speech so much you could say in your sleep? And what about stalking a company career page until the position is unfortunately filled? We’ve all been there. Thankfully, there are ways to deal with these issues — it justRead More
How to Get the Retirement You Deserve
It may seem a million miles off, but if you want a comfortable standard of living in retirement you better get saving soon – that is the message from finance industry experts. According to large-scale research by Aon in the US, a 25 year old with just a 401(k) planRead More