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What Makes You Unique?

I remember learning in gradeschool that each thumbprint is unique and being both dumbfounded and intrigued.  Could it be that no one on the planet had a thumbprint just like mine?  The lines in my friends’ thumbs seemed similar, if not identical.  What made each of our thumbprints special, different, and distinct?  During my childhood – an era when I prized conformity […]

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Get Motivated – No Excuses

It’s difficult to sustain motivation – it’s the reason we fail when trying to implement new diets, exercise regimes, business plans, or parenting tactics. There are a countless excuses we can conjure up to help ease the pain when falling short – we are too stressed to diet today, too tired to exercise this morning, […]

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Twitter: Inform, not MeForm

  PsyBlog put out a great article today entitled “Twitter – 7 Highly Effective Habits.” My favorite among the 7 tips is the second on the list “Inform, not meform”.  What the author means by this is that giving knowledge to others is a great way to use Twitter, but imparting more information about oneself […]

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College Degrees Required, Not Preferred

The New York Times article that ran two days ago (February 19, 2013) indicates that the “college degree is becoming the new high school diploma: the minimum requirement, albeit an expensive one, for getting the lowest-level job”  (http://http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/business/college-degree-required-by-increasing-number-of-companies.html). As a college instructor, I am not surprised by the depressing title of this article “It Takes […]

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Do you?

Do you love your job?  Today, on Valentine’s Day, love of work should possibly take a back seat to love of people.  Or should it? One of the top contributors to job satisfaction and engagement among employees is having the opportunity to use their skills and abilities at work, according to the 2011 Society for […]

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Finding Your Path

“Find the thing you do best in the world, and success will follow.” While growing up this was the advice my parents gave when I frequently asked how I would ever be able to decide upon a career. I was a young grade-schooler at the time but regardless, this advice seemed farfetched. Had my dad […]

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