In the professional arena, a hidden and complex phenomenon impacts senior-level professionals more profoundly than often recognized: the mid-life crisis. Contrary to popular belief and simplistic stereotypes, this crisis represents a serious and multifaceted issue in affluent societies. The comprehensive report by Osea Giuntella and colleagues from the National Bureau of Economic Research (Working Paper…
The fear of being sacked is a natural response to economic uncertainty and the competitive job market. However, allowing this fear to dominate your thoughts and actions can be harmful to your mental health and career progression.
Are you heading for a divorce, here are few tips on how to handle this at work. A marriage going awry is not unheard off and neither is a divorce. The process can take a toll on your personal as well as professional life in many ways. The stress and anxiety bough on can often…
If you are suffering from depression at work, rather than not-sharing, it’s critical that you tell your company know about the same. According to Mental Health America, every year, over 40 million American adults experience a mental health condition. And one of the problems that people across the world suffer from is depression. There are…
Being positive, when the industry is not doing good is a challenge. It can be emotionally draining to work in an industry or even workplace where the environment is rather dull, gloomy and has a lot of negativity. Often, these phases are temporary, especially when the industry is not doing well. During financial crunches, the…
It?s the start of a new year, and by integrating your job with the goals of your life, you can make this year meaningful and holistic. Like a compass, purpose offers direction for individuals when making decisions and formulating goals. Employees with a purpose in life have a sense of direction. They feel there is…
Mindfulness instills a profound sense of inner empowerment, bolstering self-confidence and goal-directed behavior. By mastering attention control and reducing emotional reactivity, you feel more adept at managing emotions and harnessing cognitive resources for self-regulation.
Below are the sleep habits of 21 highly successful people throughout history. Not everyone keeps ?normal? hours, as is shown, but it?s important to do what feels right for you, tweaking your pattern as needed.
Navigating life and career with the “Top Five Regrets” in mind offers a roadmap for a life of fulfillment, devoid of common pitfalls. It’s a call to live authentically, balance work with life’s joys, express our true selves, maintain meaningful relationships, and choose happiness every day.
Sometimes a new thought or a new idea is all you need to make a lasting change. You can wake up one day and decide to make your entire life change. If you are new to exercise or you dropped it for a while and you want to get back to doing it, the best…
Happiness–in your business life and your personal life–is often a matter of subtraction, not addition. ?Aristotle said “Happiness depends upon ourselves”. Consider, for example, what happens when you?stop?doing the following 10 things: 1. Blaming. People make mistakes. Employees don’t meet your expectations. Vendors don’t deliver on time.So you blame them for your problems. But you’re…
Do you know how to be happy? Or are you waiting for happiness to find you? Despite what the fairy tales depict, happiness doesn’t appear by magic. It’s not even something that happens to you. It’s something you can cultivate. So, what are you waiting for? Start discovering how to be happy. The happiest people…
It’s hard to forgive. The hardest part is not knowing where to start. We know that we should forgive those who have hurt is. Not necessarily because they deserve to be forgiven but more for our benefit. Forgiveness leaves the past behind and allows us to move on once and for all. This post will…
The biggest limiting factor which hinders growth of successful young managers to middle management is their inability to delegate effectively. There are only so many working hours in a day and you can do only so much all?alone. It?s time that you used the power of cloud computing by leveraging the resources available in your…
Work- Life Balance is one of the most debated topic in today?s world. Some believe that this is?not being looked at holistically?and may not be doable. Jack Welch, former GE CEO says that -?There?s no such thing as Work- Life Balance . There are work- life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.?…
Accepting oneself is the best gift you can give to yourself. Look around yourself and you will find people constantly struggling with their identity, their life remains a constant process of adjusting to everyone’s feedback. They keep on doing this, hoping to be perfect, they suppress their originality and never reach the worldly desired image….
Returning to work after a long leave is not always an uplifting experience. The mind and metabolism are likely to have adapted to a more leisurely pace, and one may have taken active steps to dissociate from work pressures during the period of leave. This is especially true if the period of leave has been…
Without doubt, wellbeing is the ultimate objective of human existence. Paradoxically, we often wind up surrendering well-being in order to earn money, and then spend a major part of the earnings in attempts to regain it. These efforts are invariably fruitless – so why do we do it? More often than not, the only real…