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.

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.

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.

If there are definite goals you want to achieve, then one of the best things you can do for yourself is create a mental goal-map.

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.