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Finding Professional Support: The Difference Between a Coach, Consultant, and Counselor

Business, Career, Life, Strategy / Ciara

The be-your-best industry has exploded in recent years, and options abound for goal support. It’s helpful to understand the different types of support available. As in all things, do your research and comparison shop: what are the options, what do you get for the investment, and what are your advisor’s qualifications? No one will ever […]

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A Mindful Approach to Decision Making

Life / Josh Korda

In life we can expect to face many difficult decisions, exhausting conundrums and cliffhangers exemplified by The Clash’s old, catchy track “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” For example, making up one’s mind about sticking with or getting out of a stressful job, a rocky relationship, a risky opportunity and so on can make

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Go Bigger: Using Failure to Drive Your Success

Life / Greg Pressler

When New Year’s resolution chit chat gives way to the topic of goal setting (a.k.a. plans, schemes, or ideas, if you will), there’s a question I like to pose: If your next goal were so outrageous that the possibility of failure was incredibly high, would you still pursue it, or would the likelihood of failure

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My Semicolon Life; Let’s Start at the Very Beginning

Life / Mindy Kay Smith

I am really good at large-scale projects. I have started a theatre company, written a book, and earned two Masters degrees. When directing a musical, I know how long it will take to block each scene, learn each song, and load in for tech. I can practically write curricula in my sleep. I don’t explain

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An Ode to Living Fearlessly

Life / Jaclyn Munson

New Year’s resolutions have never been my thing. In fact, I disdain the entire concept because it rests on the assumption that January 1st of any given year is a better day than today to start going after the things we want. Isn’t there a better measure of our worth and time? A few years

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It’s Not About You: Success is Better Based on Service Than Happiness

1 Comment / Career, Life / Aparna Bole

The combination of photo cards and social media make the holidays a time for our friends’ and families’ highlight reels to be writ large. Everywhere we turn, we encounter Instagrammed engagement scenes, tableaux of sparkly 2016 glasses and champagne flutes, and Christmas letters enumerating accomplishments. Facebook tells us that our friends are feeling “blessed.” We

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Put a Stamp on It

Life / Kate Rood

Have you seen the movie Amélie? Where the title heroine fights loneliness and daily injustices with random acts of kindness, imagination and a killer haircut? Watching this movie is a New Year’s ritual for me. Hope and positivity win in the end, and I make a goal to re-commit to my inner-Amélie. Which means I’m

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