When listing references, it can be very tempting to just put down a bunch of people you worked with briefly and hope the prospective employer doesn’t actually contact them.

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In Reference of References
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Together We Can Change The World
Whether you want change or the whole world or simply your corner of it, you have the capacity to be that change. To make that change.
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Don’t Let Email Do Your Talking For You
If you’ve got a great new idea that you want to present to your boss the last thing you want to do is explain it over email.
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Networking Through Mingling
Whether we’re looking for a job, trying to get a creative project off the ground or have discovered the new greatest thing that’s going to change the world we all know how important it is to build a network.
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Set Yourself Up For A Great Interview
It’s okay to be nervous during an interview. Everyone is. They key to getting past that nervousness so your best most competent self can shine through is setting the mental stage for it before hand.
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Why Early Job Experiences Matter
The only benefit from every job isn’t simply the potential is has to become a bullet point or paragraph on your resume. Sometimes it’s about the experiences you accumulated while you were there.
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Finding The Right Words
So often we hear It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Generally that’s taken in the context of tone of voice and body language, but oftentimes the specific words you use to express yourself are just as important.
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Beware of The Chains of Habit
We always have the choice between going right or left, but the way most of us live our lives, it’s as if we have no choice at all. We do virtually the same things over and over again, day after day, week after week simply because it’s become our habit.
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Feeding The Insatiable Email Monster
Instead of always being at the beck and call of the email beast, feed it your time and on your terms
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And Now For Something Completely Different
The one constant inside and outside of everything that happens to you, is you. So it makes sense, to fix your problems, you need to reassess how you approach them.
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Take Your Day Back From A Bad Day Start
Some days simply start out badly. You wake up a little late, you miss your bus, the coffee shop accidentally gets your order wrong, then you spill the coffee on your shirt.
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Should you include a photo on your resume?
The only people who used to include a photo on their resume were actors and models, but over the past few years we’ve been seeing more and more resumes headed with a photo. Should you be rushing to include a head shot on yours?
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Don’t Let Your Decisions Become Fatigued
If you climb ten flights of stairs you will be fatigued (most of us anyway). We all know about physical fatigue because it’s so easy to see the cause and effect. Spend twenty minutes on a treadmill and there’s no question what tired you out. Did you also know you can get decision fatigue?
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Acing Round Two
You are half way to getting your new job! After getting the call for the first interview you ensured you found out everything you could about the company and the people interviewing you. You practiced what you were going to say and once you got face to face you aced it! They like you! They also like a few other people. A second interview is in order.
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How to Cool Down When You Feel Like Boiling Over
Day in and day out you put so much into your career and your life, and sometimes you simply can’t keep up. People are asking too much, you’re behind, you’re overwhelmed, one more request or demand and you feel like you might just boil over altogether.
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“Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.” Epictetus
You might be inclined to wonder how the advice of someone how lived in the first century AD could possibly pertain to someone living in the twenty first century. The fact is, all the advances we’ve made over the past two thousand years affect the outside of our lives. How we travel, how we acquire and share information, how we communicate etc, but none of that affects how we tick internally.
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Catch Your Passion
We are always being told to “chase” our passion. And as amazing as it is to be on the run following that great, inspiring passion of ours, it would be even more amazing if we could catch it!
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“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in you favor.” Elon Musk
What do you think people said to Elon Musk said he was going to found Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) a company that would focus on advancing the state of rocket technologies. Can’t be done? Why? What a waste of money! Probably.
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How Stress Affects the Brain
Stress is good in small doses. It’s important too.
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Get Yourself In The Race
If you have a dream or a goal, the only way you’re going to get where you need to go is to strap on your running shoes and get into the race. You might not win, but at least you raced, and racing is always better than standing on the sidelines!
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