Category: Your Life
From Careerist to Caregiver: Raising Children with Special Needs
When I got pregnant with my first child, I was determined to be an amazing parent while still maintaining a fulfilling career. After all, with a child on the way, my income would be vital. My plan was to take three months off and then get a nanny part-time. Fortunately,Read More
How to Follow Your Passion — It’s More than a Fruit
In a recent TV interview, health advocate Dr. Mehmet Oz shared that in a survey of 1.2 million people about health habits, 95% of the healthiest people in the survey made a habit of taking time for themselves. Taking time to follow your passions and things you love to doRead More
Super Rich List: 20 Entrepreneurs with No Degrees
Who says you need to have doctor’s degrees, business qualifications or higher education to succeed in life to secure a place in the rich list? If we look at history, several successful entrepreneurs never attended any formal education in their field of businesses — something else had them going on.Read More
Review: MindMaple — Generate Awesome Ideas with a Mind Map
For many, one of the most stressful things about work is just that—all the work. In such an up-and-down economy, businesses don’t always have the size of staff they need, so employees are forced to take on extra roles and juggle extra responsibilities. Even if your work is simple andRead More
10 Ways to Become Stressed Starting a Business
I quit my job in 2011 to build my own business. I was in for a bumpy ride – and I knew it. In an effort to obtain results at any cost, l adopted work habits that stressed me out and impacted my productivity. Thankfully, I have pruned every oneRead More
How to Forgive
Just like most people at work, I had ignored the book that lay in my drawer. Little did I know it’d teach me how to forgive. It wasn’t any self-help title or a bestseller that I was looking forward to reading. It was our company’s on-going series in lessons in effectiveRead More
How to Beat Post Holiday Blues on the Job
Whew! The holidays are over and you have either been enjoying some down time off to lounge around, or you have been going a million miles per minute. Now. . . it’s time to get back to reality! Getting back into the swing of things can be quite jolting. DidRead More
Relocation: 5 Tips for Keeping Your Sanity
I unpacked my final box and plopped down on the couch. Wiping away the sweat from my brow, I looked around my new apartment and out the window to my view of the water. I had been anticipating my relocation and move from my parents’ house to an apartment inRead More