“be Better” Tips for Everyone
How to Be Super Productive Every Week Without Losing Your Mind
BY THOMAS OPPONG Founding editor, AllTopStartups CREDIT: Getty Images You will work better when you find and stick to habits that work best for you. You can’t use every productive habit you read about. The most successful people you know stick to habits that produce the most results. You can achieve high performance if you focus…
Read MoreThe Secret Ingredient for Exceptional Mental Toughness
BY JESSICA STILLMAN Contributor, Inc.com CREDIT: Getty Images We tend to think of people who have true grit and exceptional perseverance as hard — they have a thick enough skin and strong enough emotional defenses that whatever life throws at them, it simply bounces off. If you view mental toughness through this prism, it’s…
Read More5 Surprising Ways to Get People Excited About Their Jobs
BY LOLLY DASKAL President and CEO, Lead From Within CREDIT: Getty Images A recent Gallup poll shows something many of us already suspected: people are not terribly enthusiastic about their work. In a measure of employee engagement–that is, involvement, enthusiasm, and commitment–51 percent were described as “not engaged” while another 17 percent were “actively disengaged.” If those…
Read MoreHow to Make the Most of Your Next Networking Event
Does the idea of attending a networking event make you want to run in the other direction? Networking can be downright exhausting. For insurance agents and small business owners, networking events can be really beneficial. If networking events are leaving you tired, frustrated and drained, it may be time for a new approach. Whether you’re…
Read MoreSuccessful People Who Love Their Work: 4 Career Moves They Avoid
by Kathy Caprino, art of the new series “Building Your Happiest and Best Career” Photo Courtesy: iStock Being a researcher at heart, I love to explore key trends that reflect the deepest challenges professionals face. And if I can, I like to distill down to the bare essentials the vital lessons that successful professionals and career…
Read MoreMaking the “Two Step Challenge Rule” Work in a Toxic Culture Requires Great Listening! By Beth Boynton
TeamSTEPPS has a pocket guide with all sorts of communication, team, and patient safety info you can access. One effort to standardize communication by promoting assertiveness is called the “Two-Challenge Rule” and is described in the pocket guide as follows: “It is your responsibility to assertively voice concern at least two times to ensure that…
Read MoreA physician’s letter to his younger self by:CHIDUZIE MADUBATA, MD
To my younger self, I remember how excited you were when you finally settled on medicine as the thing that you wanted to do as a career in your junior year of college. I remember all the questions you had about what the process entailed since no one in your family had undertaken this journey…
Read MoreLoathe your job in your 20s or 30s? That may hurt your health by your 40s. By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Your first job can be a grind. Many of us start out in gigs that we never thought we’d have to take, maybe because the job market is just too tough and we need to make ends meet so we can move out of our parents’ basement. For those of us who are lucky, the…
Read More7 Crucial Lessons People Learn Too Late in Life
CREDIT: Getty Images Life lessons are full of wisdom because they often have to be learned the hard way. However, the hardest part about that process is realizing that sometimes not every opportunity lasts forever. You finally “get it” long after the fact. If possible, it’s best to learn these things sooner rather than later.…
Read MoreJerry Seinfeld’s 3 Keys to Success (and How Most People Stop After the Second)
CREDIT: Getty Images Here’s something really obvious yet also really easy to forget: successful people are successful because they do things differently than other people. They think and believe and operate differently than most other people — and in the process, they achieve differently than most other people. Here’s another thing that’s really obvious: Jerry…
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