How Failure Can Help You Succeed

Kayla Albert 30th December Goals 3 Comments

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

Most of us tend to avoid failure. We’d rather see ourselves victorious at the finish line then tending to a damaged ego and attempting to determine where things went wrong.

Clear-cut success and triumph offer a cleaner path, while failure is simply a breeding ground for lessons – lessons that can sometimes be tough or even painful to learn.

But the truth is, the most successful people in the world endured mountains of failure before reaching the peak of success; and it was those failures that actually prepared them for what came next. Could it be then that failure can help you succeed? Click Here to Read Article …

5 Tips for Successful Salary Negotiations

Kayla Albert 27th December Your Job Leave a Comment

A few years ago, a friend was asked by a potential employer, “What would you need to get paid in order to not resent the fact that you have to do the work?”

Talk about being straightforward.

For me, salary negotiations have always been a bit of a stumbling block, an awkward dance between speaking my mind while also appeasing an employer or potential employer. There seems to always be a magic number, but neither party is anxious to disclose what their magic number is right off the bat. Click Here to Read Article …

How to Build a Killer Writing Portfolio

Jeff Maehre 23rd December Freelance Leave a Comment

Freelance writers need portfolios of their writing. They are necessary for getting work and for establishing your status as a working, professional technician of prose.

The ideal set-up is to have and maintain a portfolio online. This can be on your own website, a professional networking site, or even a blog you establish just to post your work in the form of a portfolio.

The important thing is to have a collection that you use expressly for that purpose, not a site on which you just happened to have posted a few pieces a while ago, and not a bunch of links you e-mail potential clients. The portfolio must be created, designed, manicured, and maintained specifically for the sort of freelance work you’re seeking.

And the sooner you engineer it, the better. When you begin seeking a number of freelance assignments, have your portfolio stocked, adding and deleting as your professional life progresses.

The overarching concept guiding the building of a portfolio is to think of it as one cohesive piece. Many of the concepts below are components of this. Click Here to Read Article …

How Naps Can Increase Your Productivity

Richel Newborg 20th December Productivity 1 Comment

Do you wake up at the crack of dawn tired but knowing you have to get to work? Do you check your messages from your smart phone before you even pull back the covers in bed? How about skipping breakfast or lunch because you feel like you just have to much to do?

What about your email? Do you find that the sheer volume of email you get every day is growing at an alarming rate? Do you leave work later than you’d like to or take work home with you? The more we work, the more it becomes a job in itself to get things done. Face it, sometimes you just want to hit delete and start all over again.

More and more of us are finding ourselves in this situation, and it really shouldn’t have ever reached this point when something a simple as a nap might alleviate the issue. Time is the resource on which we’ve relied to get more accomplished. So when there’s more to do, we invest more hours or more time.

But time is finite – you can never get more. There is no app that creates a 26 hour day. That means many of us feel we’re running out of time, that we’re investing as many hours as we can while trying to retain some semblance of a life outside work. The truth is, it’s exhausting. Click Here to Read Article …

5 Ways To Be a Leader – Not Just a Manager

Mike Martin 18th December Management Leave a Comment

Many people aspire to be a manager, but what we really need are leaders.

If you want to be a leader of people rather than just managing them, there are a number of characteristics that you should seek to attain and practice.

The late and great management guru Warren Bennis once said “To manage means to bring about, to accomplish, to have charge of or responsibility for, to conduct. Leading is influencing, guiding in a direction, course, action, opinion. The distinction is crucial”.

So how can you be a leader and not just a manager? Click Here to Read Article …

How to Brand Yourself

Zac 16th December Freelance Leave a Comment

As a freelancer, you’re expected to wear a lot of different hats.

You’re an entrepreneur whose business and brand is yourself. You’re in charge of setting schedules, establishing financial goals, and at the foundation of it all, you’re in charge of your brand—you.

As you grow and develop as a freelancer in any field, you’ll be known by your work and your reputation. To command the amount of money that you’re worth, you’ll need to learn to build up a brand of who you are and what people can expect when dealing with you.

This concept can be one of the most difficult for people new to the industry to get invested in.

Many of the people going through this process now have grown up with the internet, making personal connections and publishing content at their discretion. It can be hard to think of personal communication as part of your business, but one must learn to think about everything one posts on the internet.

When you get started, there are a few things you should be thinking about. Click Here to Read Article …

6 Benefits of Humor at Work

Mike Martin 13th December Office Life Leave a Comment

Some people think that fun and a sense of humor have no place at work, that work is very serious business.

Our advice to them? Lighten Up.

There’s a reason that Google has a giant waterslide on its main campus, and that tons of companies have ping pong tables, video games, or free popcorn to eat while watching movies on the giant screen at work.

It’s because the management at these well-respected firms have figured out that employees who work hard like to play hard too.

Besides being fun, humor is actually good for you at work. Here are six reasons why. Click Here to Read Article …

How to Fight Afternoon Exhaustion without Coffee

Zac 11th December Productivity Leave a Comment

A cup of coffee a day can be good for you, boosting energy and even helping to stimulate your metabolism.

One cup usually isn’t enough for a whole day though, and too much coffee can leave you feeling jittery and unable to focus.

It can be hard keeping up with your work when you’re feeling tired, and sugary foods and energy drinks just leave you feeling groggier when they wear off.

The best solution is to try some of the many natural, healthy ways to fight midday exhaustion. Click Here to Read Article …

KEYS to Time Management

Samantha Springs 9th December Productivity Leave a Comment

We live in a busy society where everyone is on the go all the time – in the office, at home, and in school. More often than not, it seems like there just aren’t enough hours in the day.

For budding entrepreneurs and freelancers in particular, time may come at a premium as you work to balance your side gig with a regular nine-to-five, start and grow your business, and find time to eat!

One of the most important aptitudes for any individual with more tasks than time is time management. To reduce stress, increase productivity, and shorten the length of time between setting a goal and achieving it, use these KEYS to time management: Click Here to Read Article …

Best Brain Food for Writers

Jeff Maehre 6th December Health Leave a Comment

OK, let’s cut through the bee-ess. There’s no such thing as a “brain food,” if by that we mean something that will make you smarter.

There aren’t Hemingwayberries or Richard Powers Grains or Sell Like Sebold Shakes.

You’re already smart – smart enough to be skeptical. But the foods I’m going to describe help promote mental focus, a good, healthy energy, and most importantly, the function of your mitochondria, and thus, all of your body’s cells. I like to think of eating certain foods as a matter of not eating the wrong foods. You’re going to eat something, and these foods are the ones that will keep you from getting drowsy or lethargic as you polish your sterling prose.

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How to Deal with Criticism

Kayla Albert 3rd December Communication 3 Comments

Recently I received an email from a coworker, clearly angry in tone, berating my performance on a project I completed. My first reaction was irritation, then defensiveness, then I resorted to blaming everyone that did or didn’t have a hand in the project.

As a perfectionist, I have a tough time taking criticism from anyone – no matter how loving the source. Why allow others to put their two cents in when I’m already dealing with an overly-critical inner self?

But once the defensiveness subsided and I had handled the situation to the best of my ability, I was able to recognize something extremely important – if I were to remove the emotion from the situation and simply see it as neutral bits of information he was trying to convey, I could actually agree with several of the things he was saying.

In trying to protect my ego, I had stopped listening and shut down – a reaction that wasn’t helping him or me.

Here are a few tips I’ve discovered from dealing with criticism in the workplace. Click Here to Read Article …

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