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How to be organized at work: A 7-step process to calm the chaos
Learning how to be organized at work can skyrocket your productivity and performance. When you’re disorganized, your desk and mind are cluttered, causing you to miss deadlines, waste time trying to find things and feel frazzled almost constantly.
Amy Rigby
How to stop procrastinating (but not feel like a failure when it happens)
The best time to read this article is right now. Not later, or tomorrow. Don't open it in a browser tab and switch over to social media. Don't bookmark it and hope you'll remember to come back and read it.
Michael Metcalf
Signs of good mental health and how maintain it for life
You can have all the success in the world - whether that's through money, fame, or achievement - but still be unsatisfied. Your internal state dictates your perceptions of reality and experiences of each day. When your emotional health is hindered, external affairs can feel meaningless.
Michael Metcalf
How to stop being passive-aggressive: 8 strategies for 2024
Struggling with a passive-aggressive manner? It's a pattern where expressing anger directly feels impossible, leading to turmoil in relationships. But change is possible. Discover key traits and triggers behind passive-aggression and unlock effective communication strategies for a happier life.
Amy Rigby
Resilience training: Your secret weapon in difficult times
When life knocks you down, resilience training gives you the skills to get back up and grow from adversity. By learning things such as how to manage stress levels, reframe thoughts and practice gratitude, you can build your capacity for hardships.
Amy Rigby
What is psychological well-being (and how to improve yours)?
Psychological well-being is when you’re mentally healthy and feel positive overall about your life.
Kat Boogaard
Collectivist culture in the workplace and around the world
Collectivist cultures are some of the most fascinating types of social organization that humans can build.
Michael Metcalf
How to stop feeling guilty: 7 ways to beat back the universal emotion
As far back as 1955, researchers have indicated guilt is an universal emotion, meaning it’s felt by everyone at some level. The psychological research belief is generally that the feeling of guilt, like that of any other emotion, is the same anywhere in the world -- but its causes and consequences can vary a lot from an individual to another and from one culture to another.
Ted Bauer
Personal Power: How to Make Your Mark (Without Selling Your Soul)
Have you ever known someone who just exudes confidence?
Michael Metcalf
How to set life goals that lead to happiness (with examples)
We all have dreams and desires for our lives—things we want to accomplish, the type of lifestyle we want to maintain, or experiences we want to soak in.
Kat Boogaard
How to spot high performers (and why they need coaching too)
Your high performers are the powerhouses of your organization. They’re able to handle any task in their wheelhouse with precision and passion, and you can always rely on them to deliver results. As such, they need to be taken care of and not be taken for granted simply because they’re so consistent.
Amy Rigby
What is referent power? (Plus, how to use it to earn respect)
We all follow orders at some point in our lives. And eventually, we’ll start giving them too.
Michael Metcalf
The 3 types of stress affecting everyone in 2021 (with 9 tips on how to cope)
In 2021, Americans are stressed more than ever, reporting higher stress levels than in the early days of the pandemic.
Amy Rigby
What is locus of control? (Hint: it drives every choice you make)
Do you ever feel like life is passing you by? Like you're observing things from the window of a moving train car, waiting to get to your destination?
Michael Metcalf