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  • Is Comparing Your Life to Others’ Making You Unhappy?

    by Candace N. Bisram (Reprinted with permission) Someone recently said to me, “The main reason for my unhappiness is because everyone around me is doing so much with their lives and I’m just stuck where I am.” Many people bring this “unhappiness” on themselves by comparing their life to others’. They see people around them…

  • Servant Leadership – How Meeting the Needs of Your Team Can Make You a More Effective Leader

    A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.– Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur. By the Mind Tools Content Team Why Servant Leadership? Through servant leadership, your team learns to trust you,  knowing that you are  “there for them.” …

  • Your Health Matters: What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

    by JEANINE BARONE Many of us possess at least a touch of narcissism. And with the advent of social media, what might once have been considered pretty self-obsessed behavior—for instance, repeatedly taking photos of oneself (a.k.a. the “selfie”)and posting them online for public viewing—has become not only culturally acceptable but even expected, at least in some…

  • 11 Signs You Might Be an Empath

    by DARA KATZ  | JAN. 22, 2018  LARABELOVA/GETTY IMAGES If you hear “empath” and think, Oh, you can read minds? you actually wouldn’t be too far off. While the trait isn’t exactly cinematic ESP, empaths are deeply attuned to what people around them are feeling—emotionally and physically—and experience those sensations as if they were their own, often without needing to utter a word.…

  • Office Friendships Can Hurt Your Career–A Lesson Learned The Hard Way

    BY ALLIE HOFER Regardless of our specific fields, we all have experience with personal relationships in the workplace. Anywhere from the daily exchange of a cheesy colloquialism to a close friendship cultivated over years of working together, it’s inevitable that the line between personal and professional will be blurred and the two sectors will intertwine.…