There are people who, no matter what you do, just aren’t very pleasant to have as roommates or co-workers or bosses. Since they exist, you need to be able to handle them. Here are some methods for dealing with difficult people.

Every one of us has goals. The question is do we have the motivation to make them stick? Incorporate these six keys into your life and you’ll create motivation superglue!

Everybody knows the key to accomplishing anything is consistency. It’s easy to talk about goals and it’s just as easy to set them. The real work comes along when you decide to follow through.

What you may wonder, do icebergs have to do with career advice? Well it’s all about that whole faking it to you’re making it thing.

Gratitude is a byproduct of recognizing the potential of every new moment, of focusing your attention on the positives, not dwelling on the negatives and recognizing that every new moment is a new opportunity to try again.

If things are not going as you expect or hope, instead of continuing along in the same way as always, sometimes you need to reassess.

Doing something completely new and possibly risky can completely revitalize a career or a person, but at the same time it’s also completely terrifying.

You’re so overwhelmed, instead of concentrating on the job at hand you’ve let yourself fall into the what-if trap. 

The five second rule may not be an entirely true in regards to being able to eat something you dropped on the floor, but when it comes to losing impulse five seconds is the difference between doing and only thinking about doing.

Instead of focusing on the things outside of your control, like the more qualified person who walked into the interview right after you, it’s important to focus on the things fully in your control.

The key to getting anywhere and doing anything is knowing where you want to go and doing what needs to be done to get there.

You did an amazing job on your job search. You put together a great resume, got the interview, and got the job of your dreams! Only now that you’re there, you kind of hate it. Before you run in waving a letter of resignation there are a few things you should consider.

Did you know you don’t even have to be naturally confident to reap the rewards of confidence? You simply need to do what confident people do.  Here are six examples:

When you go into the office everyday are you still feeling the same kind of hungry perseverance that propelled you so hard and fast while you were on the job hunt? Or are the days starting to feel more and more like mirrors of each other?

So often we don’t get what we want, but as the song says, we should never despair because as often as not we will get what we need.

As our devices do more and more of the heavy lifting for our memories, and provide us with everything we could wish for with the click of a few buttons, something is getting diminished in the whirr of technological advances. Our ability to focus.

When we say backwards way of achieving your goals we don’t mean getting into your car and driving in reverse everywhere you want to go, or learning the difficult art of backwards speaking.

The people in your network can help you, they can teach you, they can take you along paths you may not have considered before, introduce you to more people who can help you.

The waiting place is that place you find yourself while you’re waiting for something else to happen. For the approval you’ve been waiting for on that report you sent in. On the funding you’re hoping to get for your new project. For the meeting you’re trying to arrange with the person you want to be your mentor. 

Some people have no trouble with procrastination. They get up with a list of things to do and they do them, systematically without delay. Others have a list of things to do or more often, a single thing to do and they take it with them from pit stop to pit stop while their procrastination problem distracts them with unending diversions to keep them from stopping long enough to get on with their list.