Stress, a response that has evolved in humans over hundreds of thousands of years, is something we working professionals tend to take for granted. We have to wake up in the morning – every morning – commute to an office, …
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In recent years, staycations – vacation time taken without leaving one’s home – have become popular. I’ve been hearing about them a lot more during the summer of 2012, when gas prices and airfares are especially high. More on this …
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Sherrie Haynie, a consultant with CPP, Inc., the publisher of the Myers-Briggs assessment, had this to say regarding introverts: “Often, introverts describe how they interact with the outside world as a performance, and acting is work. Similar to professional actors, …
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If you’ve worked in the professional world for longer than a year or two, the magic of business travel wears off. You find that your trips away from the office involve working more hours, not less. You return, exhausted, with …
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Benjamin Franklin once said that nothing is certain except death and taxes. We might agree with him on paper, but uncertainty still scares us, and in the last three years there’s been more than enough of it to go around. …
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