Our body battery is the most important battery we have, and many of us don’t know how to keep it charged. Like our phones, we have an internal battery that depletes from use. Unlike our phone, we don’t have a cord to plug into the wall to recharge it. This means we can run on
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Do you have an indoor and outdoor personality? Ways you show up at work that are different from how you are in your personal life? Of course you do. We all do. We are a curated blend of our instinctual and cultivated selves, and because we spend so many hours at work, we can sometimes
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In our last post we talked about aptitudes and how to assess your job satisfaction against whether you are working with your natural abilities. Today we are going to talk about the workplace and how to assess whether you are working in the right environment. We will use our Three Layer approach to break down
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As we mentioned, you will spend 90,000 hours, a third of your life, at your job, so it is very important that you are doing a job that you enjoy doing. There are 3 basic aspects to a rewarding job: what you are doing, where you are doing it, and who you are while you are doing it. Today we
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September 2026 Posts in celebration of Labor Day In celebration of Labor Day we are going to spend September talking about work. Why devote a month to work? Because you will spend 90,000 hours, a third of your life, at your job, so it is a good idea to make the best of it. My father always said, “I never worked a day in my life.”
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We have all had the feeling: you are about to give a presentation, or meet a new person, or go to a party alone, and your palms are sweaty, you feel nauseous, and you think you look terrible. This is what being externally located feels like. Your locus of control is an internal estimation of where you
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