We want to build stability, but in the process, we can make ourselves quite unstable. What good is a nice home or disposable income if, by the time you have it, you don’t have the physical or mental wellness to enjoy it?
You are still living as if these great things haven’t happened to you. You’ve been offered this incredible opportunity—you’re doing it—that will so clearly change things for you. But you’re still applying to jobs you don’t like, “Just in case.” You’re still making plans and accommodations as if this good thing hasn’t happened.
Perhaps your work is not in line with your values. Let’s say, for example, you work in marketing and launch a viral campaign for a company that you…don’t believe in. A company that you think stands for something, perhaps, bad. You saw behind the curtain, and you know that this company doesn’t have great values so while you did, technically, “win” by doing your part of the job well—launching the campaign—you feel that in the grand scheme of things, you promoted values that are in direct conflict with your own
An ambitious person will naturally try to find opportunities for the unambitious one. She doesn’t understand that her unambitious friend doesn’t want those opportunities—in fact, the unambitious person feels that her ambitious friend is pressuring and annoying her.
If you have a job you hate, every night, when you clock out, dread will set in. You won’t even enjoy your time off because you’ll just be busy counting the hours until you have to go back to work.
As my sister and I approached the beer distributor counter a few days ago and I plopped down my two cases of Bud Light Pineapple-Rita on the counter, I wasn’t surprised nor offended when I heard four familiar words: “Do you have ID?” The counter lady who I’d seen at least five times before while […]
Every so often, your partner will have—as we all do—those “I’m going nowhere, I’m failing, what is the meaning of any of this?!” meltdowns. Even though he’s being crazy, you have to not say, “You’re being crazy” and just talk him down.
When you first start dating someone, you just think about things like, “Does he make me laugh? Is there a physical attraction? Do we share the same values? Do I feel excited around him? Does he have his life at least somewhat together?” Those are certainly important characteristics of any working relationship, and they create the […]
Step yo' game up! Revealing signs of complacency in your career.