Step Out. Step Up.
The new feeling is s-l-o-w. It’s certainly not positive when it comes to the economy, but other than that, perhaps your work life and life in general are not currently moving as fast as they once were.
Do you like slow? Or do you miss fast? How comfortable are you with slow? Is too much slow [...]
Is emotional uncertainty spreading about your workplace? Well, yeah.
In her article, How Do They Feel? author Agatha Gilmore says employees in these troubling economic times are stressed, angry, and overwhelmed (no news here.)
But here’s a new one: we’re also afraid. We have no control; the future is unknown. And since our visuals are soaring unemployment [...]
In an interview last week, Elizabeth talked with a man who had taken a 3-month sabbatical – an eye-popping, continent-hopping adventure with family and friends. Right before I was ready to glow blue-green with envy (blue for the two oceans he crossed; green for the amount of money this adventure must have cost), I tripped [...]
In the conference room of a growing, mid-sized technology firm, 35-year-old Larry describes his dream sabbatical to other sabbatical candidates at his company.
Larry’s first career was behind the lens of a camera. Though happy and successful now in the technology field, he’s missed the creativity and intensity of the film industry. Even the long [...]
Peggy Noonan’s Declarations column in the Wall Street Journal stays pretty political, but yesterday (6/21-22/2008) she tackled the sadness felt at the death of American television journalist, Tim Russert. While the media coverage on Tim Russert was extensive, the messages were also extremely consistent.
For four days, we were told how to live a well-lived [...]
Bud Bilanich, “The Common Sense Guy”, in his blog, “Vacation Time is a Great Time to Establish Yourself,” presents your co-worker’s vacation as THE opportunity of a professional lifetime for YOU – who will not be on vacation. Simply by volunteering to take on some of his work, you’ll be growing your skills – [...]
While some of us are content to pick up a hammer to help Habitat in our communities, others have wanderlust wrapped around their desire to help others. During the last week, likely your heart has broken or at least felt a wee bit blubbery with news of the human suffering from tragedies in Myanmar [...]
If your manager still thinks compressed work weeks, working from home, sabbatical programs and arranging your work around your life is a bunch of softy bull, ask her or him how much more misinformation forms their leadership credo.
Researchers Grzywacz and Casey at Wake Forest concluded clear and definite bottom-line benefits associated with just such [...]
Ten years before Oprah found Eckhard Tolle and started extolling virtures of “the present moment” via 10 Monday night classes full of way too much SKYPING (you can down load them here,) Jacob Needleman moved many of us to examine just what the hell we were doing with the time in our lives and [...]