I know people who love their jobs, I know people who hate their jobs, and I know people who are somewhere in the middle of those two extremes… Often people in the category of hating their jobs or being in between, wonder if they should talk to their boss about the things that would improve […]
unhappy, unhappy at work, working
One of the great minds in psychology, Sigmund Freud said,” the tasks of healthy adulthood are to work and to love, but a lot of people don’t love where they work, they are in jobs where they feel stuck in a bad situation and don’t know what to do about it.” If that describes you, […]
career, job situation, stuck
In the neighborhood where I grew up, there was a fork in the road, and whether you went to the left or to the right, you would eventually wind up on our street. Even though both roads eventually went to the same place, people who always went to the left had very specific reasons they […]
advice, life's road, travel
Sometimes, when trying to solve a problem, you can hit a wall. The answers or the solutions just aren’t coming to you, no matter how much you think about it. And that can be really frustrating. One way of dealing with this is to look around your world for some random phrase or idea that […]
decision making, Decisions, fortune cookie
Years ago, my choice of which college to attend seemed like a great decision. Until a few days into the first semester of freshman year. That’s when I started to hate the place. That’s also when deciding whether or not to stay seemed pretty big. My father, a master at decision-making, offered this advice: “Imagine you decided to transfer, then […]
decision-making, leadership