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Loss, Suffering, and Sorrow: Time for Gaining Strength and Insight
So you’ve hit bottom. You’ve tried everything and worked yourself to the bone trying to make things right. But no matter what you just can’t get off the ground. You’re stuck. So let’s talk about it because few will. There’s so much talk out there today about being positive that people forget that being sad [...]
Time Management: It’s More About Managing Self Than Time
OK, you’ve got your work day all scheduled out to the last minute. You’ve gotten rid of distractions. Now it’s just matter of getting to work and getting it done. Right? If you said yes, think again. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work” Peter Drucker, management expert “It’s not [...]
Ten Cents and Your Bachelors Degree Will Get You a Cup of Coffee: How to Avoid Financial Trouble
Never mind that because of the influx of community colleges over the years, grades have inflated creating an influx of unmotivated students putting a downward pressure on academic standards. Never mind that most jobs don’t even require a degree, that it is more of a demarcation point for human resources. Never mind all that . [...]
Career Coaching: Losing Your Job is Not So Unlikely In Today’s Age of Turbulence
We live in a world of capitalistic creative destruction. The very nature of capitalism relies on competition and coming up with the latest, greatest, best product and or service going. Or that which makes previous products and services obsolete. How long has this been going on? Much longer than the title of this article implies. [...]
A High School Education is Necessary, But Has This Opinion Ever Been Confirmed?
First, to set the stage, let’s start by saying that most believe education to be critical. Education here meaning high school since it is compulsory and everyone is required to attend. But specifically the content of the “education” spoken to by the majority is quite different from what is essential to survive in today’s competitive [...]
Best Teacher of the Century Award: Your Mom and Dad
First, remember back to when you were but a wee one, maybe four or five years old. Or better yet, take a look at your four or five year old. What do you see? A copy machine, right? As you drive in the car, walk through the park, go on excursions and adventures here and [...]
What Your Child’s Teacher Won’t Tell You
Concerned about your child’s education? Why not get some solutions from the horse’s mouth? Teachers . . . If you listen without judgment and with your child’s best interest in mind, they can tell you a lot. And remember, they are not the enemy. What? You think they went into teaching for the power, fame, [...]
How to Succeed: Ignore the Majority and Do the Unexpected
If someone is successful, she is often asked “How’d you do it? Did you take classes? Get a certificate? Degree?” And when you tell them “No, I self-appointed myself” or did it on your own, most can’t believe you were able to do so without getting certificated or validated by some “official” or “expert.” The [...]
You May Not Care About Your Success But the Rest of the World Does
Some say that distraction is the tool of the devil or that which gets us off track from doing great things in our lives not only for ourselves but for others. Now some may not believe in the devil and some may believe that they are happy and don’t need change. Not believing in the [...]
An Objective Analysis of the Arbitrary Nature of Opinions and Mores is Essential to Your Success
What are perceived as “standards” or “the way things are done” is oftentimes set arbitrarily based only on that which benefits the individual or group who sets them. And equally as often, they are set to perpetuate the individual’s / group’s weaknesses and fears.
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