There are things each of us can do that will help increase our brain power. Like physical exercise makes your body stronger, mental exercises can increase the strength and flexibility of your mind.

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.

All of us have times of day when we feel most energized, most clear headed, most capable of getting the most done. Obviously that’s the time of day you should reserve to get your most important tasks done. The problem is, some of us haven’t taken the time to figure out exactly when our most productive time is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What are you passionate about? What do you aspire to? You don’t need to have world changing or life changing goals. What you do need are reasons for being here.

If a steady paycheck is all you’re after, it should be pretty straightforward to throw your line out into the water and secure one of those jobs.  If you’re after a bigger fish, the job you really want, the one you’ve been putting so much time and imagination into securing, you’re going to need a bigger boat.

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.

So many people are so concerned with the go-go-go of their lives they don’t slow down enough to consider the importance of stop-stop-stop. Sometimes people need a brain break.

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.