The ONE Question You Need to Ask Yourself to Avoid Being a Zombie by Peter Axtell, Friday, June 8, 2018 This question can help you avoid wasting years of your precious life that you can never get back. If you feel stuck in your life or job and want to make a change but are fearful of making a mistake, then this post is for you. This ONE question might help you clarify what is truly important and what you are willing to risk for the chance of a life worth living. Read more...
Exit Strategy: Dealing with Unethical Requests from Your Boss by Michelle Laurey, Friday, May 25, 2018 This circumstance is one of the most stressful ones you can experience at work. Maybe you have been lucky during your career to have had great leaders. They display themselves in situations such as treating Read more...
How to Be a Star at Work with this One Proven Strategy by Peter Axtell, Monday, May 14, 2018 Leave the whine country. I have seen this lesson work wonders on the first day I learned it. It is so simple and obvious as many profound ideas are. The bad news is that people who are unaware of this strategy will drive you crazy. Read more...
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying and What We Can Learn from Them by Peter Axtell, Monday, May 14, 2018 Minimize regrets at the end of your life. In this post, I'm going to take on a weighty subject that most people don't want to face and that is the fact of our mortality. Read more...
7 Startling Reasons Why You're Unhappy and What You Can Do About It by Peter Axtell, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 Awareness is the Key. In this post, we'll explore seven reasons why so many people are unhappy and unfulfilled in today's world. Imagine you are driving your car and it just isn't working right. The wheel is pulling to the left, the engine is making a strange sound, and there's some power lacking. Read more...
Don't Like Your Life Story? Change it! by Peter Axtell, Tuesday, April 10, 2018 You were born innately healthy…then what happened? You developed early in life what Transactional Analysist Claude Steiner calls your "life script". The content of your life script comes from the negative and positive messages you received from the people close to you. To survive, you arrived at an early decision. Read more...
What Would You Do for Free? by Peter Axtell, Thursday, March 29, 2018 How to align your true self with what you love to do by knowing your basic nature and your signature traits. In this post we're going to unpack what It means to live in alignment with who you are and what you love to do. We'll describe what signature traits are and what your basic nature means. Read more...
Save Half a Million Dollars by Using This Strategy to Lead You to Fulfilling Work by Peter Axtell, Friday, March 23, 2018 Knowing your motives and your basic nature are the keys to finding fulfilling work. In this post, we're going to explore the correlation between a person's motives and their basic nature and how that can be a huge insight into finding work you love and avoiding time wasted and incurring the chains of student debt. Read more...
Your Current and Your Unlived Life by Peter Axtell, Monday, March 19, 2018 You can never get back the time and the opportunities you've wasted playing it safe listening to resistance. Read more...
The Jedi is Wrong - May the Force NOT Be with You by Peter Axtell, Thursday, March 8, 2018 Force is draining your motivation and you don't even know it. The seemingly current worldview is that the way to make things happen is by force. Force comes in many forms. Manipulation by social media, psychological force, economic force, physical force, unethical marketing force and so on. Read more...
Purpose: The Foundation of Motivation (Part Four) by Peter Axtell, Monday, March 5, 2018 Technically speaking, Purpose is not considered a Motive per se. We would argue that It's a sustained life of motivation and have included it as a foundation of motivation. One of the most potent examples of Purpose is Viktor Frankl's horrific experiences in four Nazi Concentration camps. His purpose was what kept him motivated. Read more...
Connection: The Foundation of Motivation (Part Three) by Peter Axtell, Thursday, February 22, 2018 Critical parts you need to know to determine what will motivate you. In this post, we're going to explore how Connection or Relatedness is the third pillar of Motivation and how it ties into the previous two of Autonomy and Mastery. Read more...
Mastery: The Foundation of Motivation (Part Two) by Peter Axtell, Thursday, February 15, 2018 Discover how mastery is a critical part of motivation. In this post we'll cover how and why Mastery (sometimes called Competence) is an essential element in Motivation. We'll describe the 5 keys on the path to Mastery and you'll understand how that builds our sense of Autonomy. Read more...
Autonomy: The Foundation of Motivation (Part One) by Peter Axtell, Thursday, February 8, 2018 Discover the critical parts you need to know to determine what will motivate you. The foundation of motivation begins with Autonomy. Let's face it; nobody does anything without motivation. Scientists, psychologists, and philosophers have been trying to answer this question for millennia: “How can I figure out what motivates me?” Read more...
Motivation: What Is It and Why Is It Important? by Peter Axtell, Thursday, February 1, 2018 Every action you take is dependent on motivation. Everyone is trying to figure out how to be successful. The foundational element of being successful is finding out what motivates you. Read more...
The Importance of Learning New Career Skills for Building a Career You Love by Scott Young, Monday, August 7, 2017 Being able to learn new skills quickly has always been useful. But, increasingly, it has become a necessity. In this essay, I'd like to outline some of the evidence that the economy is shifting in ways that are going to make being able to teach yourself hard skills an imperative. I'd like to argue why developing a skills-based perspective towards your career is the key to fulfillment and satisfaction. Finally, I'd like to tell you how you can develop the ability to learn hard things faster. Read more...
3 Questions You Must Ask Before Changing Jobs by Peter Axtell, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 Is It the Job or Is It You? This article will help you figure out if you have a bad job or a miserable one and what you can do to improve your current situation. By answering three specific questions, you'll gain clarity and avoid unnecessary risk to yourself and your loved ones if you consider changing jobs. You might just find a way to love your current job again. Read more...
How to Create a Life of Purpose by Peter Axtell, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 Learn to identify purpose by identifying a skill to master. Few of us have ever been taught how to create a life of purpose and therefore end up living a life by default. Living a life on purpose seems like it just magically happens to exceptional people like Viktor Frankl, Gandhi, Steve Jobs or the Beatles. Read more...
What You Need to Know About the Self-Assessment Myth by Nicola Vetter, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 In this article, we'll explore the myths around self-assessments. You'll learn what's useful and what's not to help guide you on a career path. Why Do a Self-Assessment? Anytime you learn about yourself and become more aware is a good thing. Understanding why you behave the way you do is insightful and allows better choices. Read more...
Your Money or Your Life by Peter Axtell, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 How Are You Spending Your Life Energy? In this article, we're going to explore the relationship between money and life energy. Unless you're a trust fund baby, everything you spend money on has to be earned by life energy. How are you spending yours? Read more...
6 Mistakes Midlife Entrepreneurs Must Avoid To Increase Chances of Success by Nicola Vetter, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 Stack the Cards in Your Favor by Knowing these Common Mistakes. This post is about the six mistakes solopreneurs and entrepreneurs must avoid. Despite the common wisdom, they continue to be ignored. Don't be the one who ignores these pitfalls. Read more...
How to Dramatically Strengthen Your Marriage, Friendships, and Relationships by Peter Axtell, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 Language is generative, meaning that what we say and how we say it, literally creates our world. Our words have the power to destroy our marriages, friendships and relationships. Read more...
How To Choose a Career Aptitude Test or Personality Test by Peter Axtell, Thursday, February 2, 2012 The right career aptitude test can provide important insight for planning a midlife career change. Career aptitude tests, personality tests, and career interest inventories literally litter the career planning landscape. And while there is no question that the right career aptitude test or self assessment can provide a useful framework for thinking about a career choice or midlife career transition. Read more...
Living Like You Mean It: The Existential Life by Amy Bernstein, Thursday, November 17, 2011 To be fully alive, your search for personal meaning must be never-ending Read more...
Does Your Personality Fit Your Career? by Amy Bernstein, Thursday, November 17, 2011 What to do if you find you personality and your job are out of alignment Read more...