Category: Goal Setting

  • Is This What Success Looks Like?

    It’s Time to Stop Wearing Burnout as a Badge of Courage STEPHANIE JADE WONG Close your eyes and imagine yourself sprinting while holding your breath. Sounds tough, right? But that’s what leadership coach Lenore Champagne Beirne used to do when it came to her work—she’d push herself past her breaking point, thinking it’s what “success” looked like. “I’d…

  • The Type of Burnout We Rarely Talk About

    MARTHA TESEMA “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” That saying—one of the many by the great unknown—has been floating around on the Internet for as long as I’ve been googling “inspiring quotes” (a long, long time). It sums up an ideal situation: find a job that aligns with…

  • How a ‘Pressure List’ Helps Me Keep My Stress in Check

    HALEY GOLDBERG “I just feel like I’m under so much pressure.” I said those words to my mom during one of our recent weekly phone chats, after I’d ranted for a few minutes about how stressful my day/week/month felt. And, in her motherly wise way, her response was, “Well, where’s the pressure coming from?” At that moment, I realized: I…

  • Best Practices to Increase Your Mental Strength

    Many people forget that just like injuries to the external body, injuries to the brain are all the same – and conditions such as anxiety and depression are mental illnesses, not something that you can simply “get over.” Mental health is a very important topic that is unfortunately too often overlooked. Thesepractices are by no means a cure to any condition, but can provide a bit of relief to…

  • 10 Simple Ways to Make the World a Better Place

    By Samantha Hodder-young volunteer woman caring for the elderly women “As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.” ~Paul Shane Spear   I have always wanted to change the world. I remember being four years old, sitting glued to the television on Sunday mornings, not watching…