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Savvy Professional Career Wisdom by Caroline Dowd-Higgins
This is Not the Career I Ordered is read by thousands of careerists around the globe. With savvy tools, inspiration, and resources, this timeless book empowers you to enjoy your career, and love your life!
Single Tasking Can Enhance Your Life and Career
Multitasking used to be a sought-after professional competency thought to be a valuable skill for the world-of-work. Research tells us that singletasking is actually more effective and can result in higher productivity and time efficiency. I can envision the woman working at home reading this blog while eating her lunch, checking her email, listening to […]
Being Busy is Nothing to Brag About
I conducted a social experiment and asked the question, “How are you?” to several individuals of different ages, career fields, geographies, and perspectives. The people I queried all responded with some variation of how busy they were. Their responses were stress-filled and frustrated and their self-reported state of busy was clearly causing them angst. Busy-ness […]
