Workplace Unhappiness 1: Isolating the Source of Your Misery
In a recent blog post entitled “The Secret to Happiness,” I touch upon the concept of Subjective Well Being, or SWB for short. Subjective well
August 9, 2007
Understanding Opportunity Costs Leads to Better Decisions
Opportunity Cost is one of those concepts that all of us think we understand, but we’re often unable to calculate the real dollars involved.
In its simplest terms, Opportunity Cost can be defined as follows:
In order to gain something, you must lose something else.
How does, and should, this factor into the decisions we make in our everyday lives?
August 9, 2007
Taking Action: Entrepreneurship ala Ben Casnocha
Ben Casnocha is a very young CEO who started his first company when he was 12 years old. Then, when he was 14 he started
August 3, 2007
Finding Happiness at Work
Alexander Kjerulf is a Chief Happiness Officer. He believes that in order to be happy at work we should stop putting up with unhappy workplaces,
July 31, 2007
Tama Kieves Interview: 7 Reflections with Tama Kieves, Author of This Time I Dance! Creating The Work You Love
7 Reflections with the Tame Kieves, Author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love. Summary: Even though Tama graduated from Harvard Law
July 12, 2007
Be Careful What You Wish For – Part 3: Quotes
Some examples of quotes that remind you to “be careful what you wish for,” are: Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit and the greatest peril
July 11, 2007
Be Careful What You Wish For – Part 2: Overcoming Pride to Find Happiness
What could someone say to you, if you are working an exhausting, career inspired, trying to reach the top of the ladder kind of life,
July 10, 2007
Be Careful What You Wish For – Part 1: Losing Sight of What’s Important
OK, there’s something that you really, really want. You’re absolutely yearning for it with all of your soul and being. All you can think about is how much you want it. You ache for it and hunger for it. You become obsessed with it. You spend all of your waking hours thinking about it – consciously and subconsciously – and how to attain it. It consumes you.
You disregard your health – your diet, your sleep, your recreation, your personal time, your intellectual and creative nourishment. You rationalize that the things you’re doing in pursuit of this dream are for the good of all those involved in your life, yet you ignore them, erecting a wall between you and your partner, family, children, friends, and colleagues. Worse yet, you treat them in ways that leave in your wake a sea of emotional turmoil.
July 9, 2007
Slashes and Fulfillment
Slashes are people who pursue many careers at the same time, according to Marci Alboher who wrote the book One Person/Multiple Careers. Now that so
July 6, 2007
The Current State of the Work-Life Balance Battle
Many offices and corporations are offering several things in order to “make things easier for the employee.” In the article “Keeping Work and Life In
July 2, 2007
Some Really, Really Bad Advice
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomburg recently stated, to a graduating class of City University of New York – Staten Island, that in order to
June 25, 2007
Happiness and Work
The UK’s Chiumento wrote an article, called “2007 Happiness at Work Index,” and it stated that relationships we have at work have a large impact
June 22, 2007
What Would Make Working Fathers Happy?
According to a survey, from CareerBuilders.com, in 2007 37% of fathers would quit their jobs if their partner made enough money to support them and
June 18, 2007
Happy Father’s Day
The idea for Father’s Day came from a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd who was an only daughter of six children, her mother died in
June 15, 2007
Knowing When to Quit Your Job – Identifying the Point of No Return
There are plenty of signs that lead you to the conclusion that it’s time to high tail it out of there, here are some tips,
June 14, 2007
The Greatest Generations?
Generation Xers and Yers are being recognized for changing traditional views of the workplace. The new generations of workers are standing up for “The American
June 13, 2007
A Final Word on Workplace Survival
78% of people, who responded to a University of North Carolina survey, as cited in an article titled “Eliminate Workplace Conflict and Improve Productivity,” said
June 12, 2007
The Thinking Blogger Award
The user Family Man at Build Tomorrow Another Day of Life nominates David Bohl for The Thinking Blogger Award. The thing is to identify “5
June 7, 2007
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