Your Career Goals

Rise and Shine: Morning Rituals for a Productive and Positive Summer 

Summer invites promises of sunshine, adventure, and carefree days. But what if your calendar is filled with work and commitments? Don't stress! Here are 5 creative ways to have fun and adventure in your summer, even with a busy schedule:

Can you believe it? It’s been a whole year in a pandemic. Looking back, most of us thought COVID-19 would only last a couple of months. We quickly learned we were wrong. Here we are a year later, finally making improvements, but most of us still feel the pandemic’s effects. We can all agree after a year of facing adversity; motivation can be hard to come by. Here are five tips to stay motivated after a year in a pandemic. 

Although your hard skills are necessary for the career you want, your soft skills play a significant part in how quickly you advance. Along with your work ethic, communication skills, and emotional intelligence, exhibiting a positive attitude will help you reach your career goals. Because people aren’t always taught to be positive, you may have an edge over the competition by exhibiting this quality.    

It doesn’t matter how rich and successful you are, you always need to be mindful of your budget. Saving money isn’t glamorous, but if you can develop some skills and strategies early on, those will soon become second nature habits. And even if you’re rolling in dough now, you never know what’s around the corner—a recession, a layoff—when you’ll be glad you worked so hard to save so much. Here are some budget tips that are extremely valuable at any stage of your career.

In today’s competitive, social media-driven environment, it’s easy to get frustrated or complacent. But if you stay focused on your purpose for living and working, you’ll stay motivated to be busy and active at home and successful at work. To be self-motivated, stay positive and remember why you’re working. How does each task you complete relate to your own life and to others? How are you making a difference and contributing to something important? If you want to accomplish more, you need to think of the big picture.

There is not one definition for life-balance. It seems to be different for everyone. However, if you can achieve contentment in your personal life, that happiness is likely to spill over into your life at work. You can imagine—or perhaps you know from experience—that people with tumultuous or melancholic lives outside of work are likely to be distracted or sullen at work.