If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

If you are prone to creative work, you know that inspiration hits you naturally. Sometimes you fall into a dark spot, so you think that waiting is the best solution. Its not! Creativity is a trainable skill, so you can make an effort that will yield results.

Life is messy. Too often, we miss this fact. The grass is not greener on the other side; the other side may be better cared for. Even though life is more like a warrior dash than a journey, either way, too many muddy their paths in unnecessary ways.

How can you be an effective team member and help your work group be successful? It may seem unlikely that there could be anything new to learn about what makes teams effective, but there is. More than ever before, work today gets done in teams, and your ability to contribute as a member is vital to your career success.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

New research from the emerging field of neuroeconomics suggests that being generous is not as tough as some people think. But even so, it is pretty rare.

If you want to make a career of public speaking, youre going to have to get paid.

When was the last time a salesperson really, really annoyed you? No matter how professional or helpful you are 99% of the time, at one point or another in your sales career, youve probably irritated some of your prospects.

Our brains are wired to dislike uncertainty. When we face an uncertain leadership challenge, the fight-flight center of our brain releases hormones into our blood stream and neurotransmitters into our brain.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Im sure you have heard these things before, especially now in an age when positive psychology is so popular: Choose to be happy. Visualize your success and you will be successful. If you believe it, you can achieve it. Theyre nice messages, and theyre everywhere.

But scientific evidence suggests that they may not actually be helpful when it comes to achieving our goals and being successful.

If you had the choice of doing something the easy way or the hard way, and you didnt have to do anything morally, ethically, or legally wrong to do it the easy way, which would you choose? My guess is the majority of you would say take the easy way. I certainly would.

No one in management starts out wanting to be hated. Certainly, most managers have principles, and use them to do what they think is best for the team and the company. But sometimes they are moving so fast they dont realize their destructive behavior. Or worse, they lack a certain amount of self-awareness.

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