What If You Could Truly Be Yourself at Work? – The Energy Project.
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Life Underwriting Expert Witness (for now)
It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years. To do those things well, you’ll need to cultivate a deep understanding of yourself—not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence. And we will have to stay mentally alert and engaged during a 50-year working life, which means knowing how and when to change the work we do.
Peter Drucker
If you had told me 10 years ago that I would be doing expert witness work 10 years in the future I would not have believed you. Read Drucker’s quote above and read it again. Let these words sink in, especially the wisdom about knowing how and when to change the work you do. I’ve changed the work I do multiple times in my life. I’ll probably change again at some point in the future. Don’t fool yourself. Change of this nature is not easy but it will become increasingly necessary for your career.
Change This – We Are All Artists Now
Change This – We Are All Artists Now.
We settle for low expectations and small dreams and guarantee ourselves less than we are capable of.
Don’t settle. Dream big dreams. Go download this manifesto and be inspired.
M&Ms Recruiting Test: How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything
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.
‘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.
Why Idleness Is the Best Investment You Can Make
In today’s Western culture, we mistake productivity for the appearance of productivity. The frantic attentiveness to smartphones which characterizes corporate ambition, for example, is a display of how hard someone is working, not an actual measure of their productivity.
via Why Idleness Is the Best Investment You Can Make | IdeaFeed | Big Think.
I am not doing very much today so that I can be more productive.
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.
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