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Why Going Silent Mode Can Be the Best Thing to Happen to Your Career
Usually, people spend too much time talking about what they’re going to do, and not enough time doing it. Isn’t it funny that it’s the skills you often excel at, you tend to advertise the least? It has to do with uncertainty. The less certain we feel about a subject,…
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Make your 9 to 5 a Breeding Ground for Success
Is it just me, or does it feel like every time I go on my phone, there’s this cacophony of hatred toward the 9 to 5 career? When I searched the phrase 9 to 5 on Google, the first 5 results were: “Breaking Free to 9 to 5 Culture” –…
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Niched Down: Why I Left PR— The Career that Ended up Draining Me
The art of public relations, PR, for short, is not all that it’s cut out to be on TV: boss babes, pink pantsuits, assistants, and skim lattes. It’s more attuned, based on personal experience, with hours spent pouring over minute details, people pleasing, and a lot of reading, editing, and…
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When Procrastination is Necessary: From a Creative
Great works cannot be rushed, nor are they fully appreciated in the present moment. This is what most of the greatest artists, poets, and musicians have demonstrated throughout history. A Dutch artist by name of Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting in his lifetime as an artist. Today, you…
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The 3 Unglamorous Truths About Working for Yourself
I recently transitioned from freelancing to starting the foundations of a company. And boy, has it been an emotional journey. Most of the time people get the wrong idea of what it is like starting or operating something that’s your own. Some common assumptions: You must lovee what you do!…
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How I Use Visualization for Logic-Based Tasks
I think most of life’s magic happens when we’re able to combine creativity with logic. Think about engineering a rocketship. Much of its conception requires complicated math equations and physic formulas in order to determine the amount of fuel that is needed to power this gregarious engine, and what precise…
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Make Your Time More Valuable As Opposed to Working More
Do you ever wonder get why certain occupations have salaries that are five times the national average? What makes some skills more valuable than others? People that belong in the highest pay ranges inhabit a similar trait. Every minute of their time is worth more than what people might make…
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Out of Office: 5 Things I Miss About the Office
It’s been a little more than a year since I put in my resignation at my last office job. It was my first job in an office, and I didn’t anticipate it would become somewhat of my last. We’re at an interesting intersection in time, where the inbound generation may…
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I Took a Self-Prescribed Vacation: Here’s What Happened
If you’ve followed along with my last post, I’ve disclosed that I’ve been feeling quite burned out for a while now. I decided to take a step back and utilize the time I was moving into my new place, to relax, reflect, and nourish myself with rest. What I realized…
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The Difference Between Being Busy and Being Effective
Taking an entire week off from “work” tasks has taught me that productivity can be achieved through different ways. You can be “busy” hosting people, you can be ”busy” on vacation, and you can “busy” maintaining the home. There are many types of busy— but often the word itself is…
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