Because more than you need to makes it personal.
Because work that belongs to you, by choice, is the first step to making art.
Because the choice to do more brings passion to your life and it makes you more alive.
Because if you don’t, someone else will, and in an ever more competitive world, doing less means losing.
Because you care.
Because we’re watching.
Because you can.
Success
The Battered Incomes of the Self Employed | Small Business Trends
The 2010 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances – a triennial survey of a random sample of American households conducted for the Fed by a University of Chicago-based survey research group – shows the large drop in self-employment income that occurred during the recent economic downturn.
via The Battered Incomes of the Self Employed | Small Business Trends.
No place to hide in this Great Recession.
The Global Arbitrage of Online Work – NYTimes.com
…if you’re reading this from one of the better parts of the global economy, it’s a good time to think about how to be indispensable.
via The Global Arbitrage of Online Work – NYTimes.com.
As a bonafide WFH full time househusband for over six years I found this article fascinating. Even if you are not WFH I recommend you read this article.
How Do We Keep Contingent Workers From Jumping Ship? – Dear Workforce
My company provides staffing services to the manufacturing industry. Contingent workers historically have a high turnover rate. My motivation is to get these people to stay on assignments longer and be more productive, thus increasing my client’s return on investment. What can we do?
via How Do We Keep Contingent Workers From Jumping Ship? – Dear Workforce – Workforce.
The situation above is an actual scenario and the question posed is real. The individual asking the question is in Human Resources and an executive at the VP level. My initial reaction was disbelief. Check out the entire article. The answer given was pretty decent.
Ouch…
‘Mindfulness’ Is Being Incorporated Into Employer Strategies to Combat Multitasking
“Studies show that about 49 percent of our waking time, our minds have wandered away from the task at hand,” Bahl says. “Especially with digital communication, there’s a lot of texting, there’s a lot of multitasking going on, and people are losing the ability to focus when they really want to focus.”
This isn’t just harmless woolgathering. According to data from Basex, a Yorktown Heights, New York-based business research firm, the estimated annual cost to the U.S. economy in loss of productivity from multitasking is $997 billion and a minimum of 28 billion hours.
Why Niche Creation is Where It’s At – The Hart Technique
When you embody a niche in the market, you have fewer competitors. Therefore you also have more opportunities. Opportunities have a way of snowballing. Work begets work. The more you work, the more you work.
via Why Niche Creation is Where It’s At | The Hart Technique.
The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself – Heidi Grant Halvorson – HBR
A set of ingenious studies conducted by Stanford’s Zakary Tormala and Jayson Jia, and Harvard Business School’s Michael Norton paint a very clear picture of our unconscious preference for potential over actual success.
via The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself – Heidi Grant Halvorson – Harvard Business Review.
How to Rewire Your Brain For Success
In neuroscience, the previous prevailing belief had been that the adult human brain is essentially “hardwired,” so that by the time we reach adulthood we are stuck with what we have. Now we understand that the adult brain retains impressive powers of “neuroplasticity”—the ability to change its structure and function in response to experiences real or imagined.
via How to Rewire Your Brain For Success | Experts’ Corner | Big Think.
Why Good People Can’t Find Jobs – Part 2
The sad truth is that it’s costly and risky to hire anyone to do anything, and “bankable projects” that might generate profit/require more labor are few and far between. The overhead costs for employees have skyrocketed. So even though the wages employees see on their paychecks have stagnated, the total compensation costs the employer pays have risen substantially.
via charles hugh smith-Dear Person Seeking a Job: Why I Can’t Hire You.
Go read this article. There are quite a few insightful observations.
Steven Pressfield – The Lunch Pail Manifesto
The Lunch Pail Manifesto
- We must find the work that brings our lives meaning.
- We must strive to make our work purposeful, truthful, and authentic, a pure offering to our Muse and fellow human beings.
- We must wage a lifelong war with Resistance and accept that instant gratification is an oxymoron.
- We must not speak of our work with false modesty or braggadocio.
- We must not debase our work for short term gain nor elevate it above its rightful station to inflate our ego.
- We must not covet the fruits of our work, or the fruits of others’ work.
- We must respect others’ work and offer aid to fellow professional laborers.
- We must accept that our work will never be perfect.
- We must accept that our work will never be without merit.
- We must accept that our work will never cease.
via Standing 8 Count | Black Irish Books | Get In the Ring!.
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