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Are Recession Blues Inevitable?
“Economic Gloom” is a popular phrase found today in many newspapers. It smacks of ‘depression’ and ‘sadness’. But do recessions really make people sad? Are they inevitably unhappier as a result of an economic slow-down? Simon Oates argues...
‘Hopetimism’
‘Hopetimism’ is a word made up just for you by Karen Senteio. She defines it as a tendency to believe or desire the best possible outcome. “Opt for Hopetimism,” she writes. “It will sit comfortably in your heart and keep the doors of opport...
Are You Stuck in an Unconscious Rut?
“Awareness,” write Peter Vajda, “is the ‘secret sauce’ of personal change. People who are unaware have no grasp of their internal map of reality. They live unconsciously, carrying the past, bad along with good, into the future.” Read the...
Delusional Optimism
Many people love to think of themselves as ‘can do’ types. They revel in the notion that—somehow—thinking positively will automatically produce a life of ease and plenty. Yet, if you truly want success, it’s better to set out expecting plen...
Back to Reality
Management isn’t rocket science, nor should it be, argues John Fletcher. Management theorists came to believe that messy reality could be reduced to theories and formulas. Nearly all turned out to work in theory and fail in practice. Yet there are ...
Surviving the Recession
How you handle the bad stuff will determine how you (and your career) come out of this recession. Never mind whose fault it is. To survive the bad times, the trick is to modify the responses and attitudes in your mind and heart, regardless of what th...
Standing Up to Adversity
If you can see your present troubles as the crucible in which a new life is being formed, you can focus on how that should turn out and stop worrying about what went before. Decide what you want out of life, then focus on trying to make that happen. ...
Simplicity Works
Cutting the ‘overheads’ in your life and career will be the best way out of current problems. Read the full text of this article on the blog's website. ...
Now May Be Time for a Course Correction
For many today, writes Peter Vajda, the pressure is on. Dealing with it will most likely demand a significant course correction or so. How will you find what you need to do? Try listening to what’s inside you and fitting your future to your deepest...
When ‘Moving on’ is All We Have Left
“I believe we must all start where we are—in pain and beset with grief, anger, and fear,” writes Helen Major. “From there, we must confront the voices in our head that tell us some deficit in us alone, some lack or hidden misdemeanor, is the ...
Moving On from Failure, Risk, Rejection and Pain
Many people shy away from change because of the pain they associate with failing. It doesn’t have to be that way. There is a way to lower the risk associated with change and reduce the pain of failure, and the solution—or a good part of it—is i...
In Praise of Curiosity
"When was the last time you re-invented your career, your business or yourself?" asks Peter Vajda. It's so easy to stay on the well-worn path of the ‘tried and true’, the familiar, the comfortable, the safe. Maybe that's why our culture is rife w...
Opportunity is Knocking. Are You Coming Out to Play?
Many of us adults have stopped inventing, playing, dreaming, doing and taking action on the things that caught their fancy them. They were silly childhood things that no longer have a place in our lives. Karen Senteio begs to differ. Those are the ...
What’s So Special About You?
You won’t build a satisfying career and future through being the same as everyone else. Now, as we all try to rebuild our dreams and find our own path out of whatever the economic downturn has done to us, is an excellent time to recall that being u...
The Economy and the Quality of Life
For millions, writes Peter Vajda, navigating this crisis will be a life-changing experience. As such, two important questions need answers: “How will this change my life?” and “How will I choose to face this journey?” Read the full text of t...
Pick Your Preferences Wisely
Whatever you aim to do in life, there are choices in how you accomplish it. Be sure to decide what is most important before taking your first steps. You may decide there isn't enough time to do it correctly the first time, but you will always need to...
What’s the Answer?
Mental laziness, narrow-mindedness and glorification of ignorance, wrapped up as gut-feel, got us into this mess. Only thinking for ourselves again stands any chance of getting us out. Read the full text of this article on the blog's website. ...
“I’ve seen the future . . .”
John Fletcher offers a few tentative suggestions for getting through the future, whatever it may be. In his view, it will be entirely different from anything we have known recently, so we have to get rid of the neurotic longing for the familiar. Do t...
The Treacherous Lure of Business as Usual
Whenever something goes wrong, it represents an opportunity to stand back, evaluate past actions and start again with beneficial changes. So why do so many of us try instead to get back to ‘business as usual’ as quickly as we can? Read the full ...
This Week is Last Week’s “Next Week”
Peter Vajda considers how easy it is to act the victim, grimly living with the hand you have been dealt. Choosing not to be proactive about change, despite the stress, confusion and unhappiness you feel, will simply ensure next week—and the weeks a...
Moving On From Personal Disaster
Guest author Martin Hodges shares his own experience of rebuilding a career and offers sage advice to anyone who has suffered the cruel blow of losing a job unexpectedly. Read the full text of this article on the blog's website. ...
On Moving On
It’s time to move on. You can’t hide behind your remaining ‘walls’ for long and still have any sense of things getting better. Sometime you have to venture out again, take what still works and begin to use it to rebuild. Read the full text o...
